Major peers. Cofounder sewing softbank for reneging on a 3 billion deal. Shery take a look at how markets are trading at the moment. We are seeing upside for u. S. Futures, kind of flat right now, paring back some of those earlier gains that were already adding to the rally we saw late in the session in the u. S. But paring back some of those gains. Kiwi stocks gaining for a second session. Sydney futures higher by. 3 percent. As we head towards the rba Monetary Policy decision, not much change expected there although we are hearing from the treasurer that we could see a deep contraction this quarter. We are seeing crude gaining ground, extending gains above 21 a barrel as we see u. S. Build now slowing. The push to reopen state economies is clouding efforts to predict the official told from the coronavirus p he has ramped up his death production. Coronavirus. He has ramped up his death projections. Greg sullivan joins us now. President trump still pushing for the reopening of some sta
Will also look at a u. K. Report bringing into focus the severe impact the coronavirus pandemic is having on many young and vulnerable minds. Almost 500000000000. 00 in extra Financial Aid has been approved by the u. S. Senate to help businesses and hospitals struggling under the coronavirus pandemic the house of representatives will vote on this on thursday it would be the 4th such package adding up to about 3 trillion dollars in all will start with the support from my counter in washington d. C. With many senators working from home the boat with take them by voice all in favor say aye. Pose no yes appear to have it this follows intense negotiation between the white house and congress in recent days. At the core of our agreement is 320000000000 more for the Paycheck Protection Program which is already saving millions of Small Business jobs and helping americans get paychecks instead of potentially. Democrats successfully 4 to include 75000000000. 00 for hospitals and 25000000000. 00 f
Done here you see the home builders, weve had a terrific rally in the builders in the last few days but hovnanian was 29 just a month ago. Its a 9 stock right now. Yes, weve had a great rally, but bear in mind how far weve come and how many more headlines we have yet to get through a lot of people are also optimistic watching the vix drop it has dropped exactly in half since march 15th it was 86 on an intraday basis march 15th, you see it at 43 exactly a 50 drop thats making a lot more people a lot more optimistic. A lot more arguments that the markets are higher have been mitigated by the fact that weve just had such a big rally and its hard to push against this rally right now. Look at these stocks right here and how much they have moved since the market bottomed, the february 21st close, which is when things really started get getting bad. Walmarts up, verizon is only down 1 . Merck and 3m down a few percent. This is when things started getting really serious you see how much the ma
Nicole strong talks about President Trumps decision to shrink the size host good morning. It is washington journal. The Supreme Court and folks today as it hears arguments concerning that colorado bigger that refused to bake a cake for a gay couples wedding. Many are lined up outside of the court hopeful to become spectators of the argument. You can hear the arguments on cspan. Org. A new survey which looks at the media. Take a look at how republicans and democrats and Media Coverage of President Trump. We will present some of those results. We are interested in hearing from you. Heres how you can let us know. You can post thoughts on Media Coverage of President Trump and you can go to our facebook page. That isfind the survey done for republicans and democrats just to present you a little bit of the survey. It says this he is a coauthor of the study. Another author join us on the phone to talk about the results and the findings is from princeton university. Good morning. Guest good to
Arguments will be heard today. Create a kicko for a samesex wedding. Many people are willing to go in and listen to the arguments. We will show you audio of that later this week. Us. Y we are guests joining chief counsel and policy director. Thank you for joining us. Lets start with you. Can you explain the concept of the case from the point of the baker . He is a bigger in colorado. He was an artist and realized he could merge that with his interest in pastry chef. Views his expression of his art. He has a lot of different types of cakes that he cannot make for religious reasons. He had a samesex couple come in and ask for a custom wedding cake. He said i can make you other cakes, but when it is a custom is my expression. I cannot do that because i cannot believe this. Colorado says that violates their antidiscrimination law. Now he has had to drop what percent of his business because he cannot make any wedding cake whatsoever. Tell us why they went so far with this case. Obviously th