Steadily. By the time was finished, the delegated thousand points closing ahead 1985 points. The s p 500 finishing with a higher, markedly higher, 230 points. The nasdaq soaring 673. The decision today to declare a National Emergency, strong, swift action that opens up 50 billion of federal resources to help state and local governments fight the pandemic, waving interest on federal studentst loans until further notice directing the department of energy to buy up crude oil to store in the petroleum reserves. To unleash the full power of the federal government im officially declaring a National Emergency. As a result of that action today we are announcing a new partnership with private sector to vastly increase and accelerate our capacity to test for the coronavirus, we want to make sure those who need a test can get a test safely and conveniently. The next week weeks are critical. We can learn and we will, turn a corner on this virus. Lou over the next critical two months the Trump Admi
The session. S p futures have been fading, but this after what was the second 4 gain in three days. Safe havens have also been big. Dollaryen, the bestperforming currency. At the same time we see a goal above 1600. 10year treasury yeild continue to hover around 1 . According to that millard have signe says that this is a that the safe haven assets he further weakness ahead. If it was up to him he would say sell into the rallies and there is a large chance maybe we will see a returns debtfree chance of equities from last week. Paul our cross asset reporter in new york, thanks for joining us. China has reported its latest coronavirus numbers, adding 139 new infections and 31 debts. Those figures are inline with the lower trend in recent days. The contrast for the acceleration of an infection rate elsewhere in the world. But get over to our china correspondent Tom Mackenzie in beijing. China is seeing a dramatic drop in infections, but there are doubts about whether we are getting the ful
Only the bottom line on u. S. Politics and policies and their effect on the world. To. See. How in munich where Global Policy makers are gathered for the annual security conference among them just the European Unions Foreign Policy and security chief a band who faces many challenges from the u. S. Tariffs from the Iran Nuclear Deal to managing relations with eastern giants like china and russia and of course festering conflicts in places like libya and yemen the list is long can the ties that bind e. U. Member states endure all this is there a common vision for the European Unions future well find out as just talks to aljazeera. Just approach the European Unions high representative for Foreign Affairs many thanks for talking to al jazeera thank you youre part of a new European Commission theres a new European Parliament a new e. U. In fact 27 members minus the United Kingdom but youve got real problems youve got people like president of france a sort of very powerful reformer pushing f
Here in New Hampshire, this event [indiscernible] andoderate todays debate, governor patrick to the stage. [applause] thanks a lot. Professor, thank you for moderating this. Thank you all for being here. Thank you to open democracy for the invitation to be here. I could make it as plain as possible by taking that card and reading aloud. I actually wrote that sentence. Look, we have a handful of big ideas, and when i say we, i mean we americans, on which there are broad consensus. And theydont happen, dont happen because we have been treating our democracy for a long time as it it would tolerate limitless abuse without breaking. The things like the amount of money, much of it dark, the gerrymandering of districts so that, as the phrase goes, representatives choose the voters and not the other way around, the influence of lobbyists, especially lobbyists for money interests. Frankly,ression, and how hard we make it to register to vote. All of these things conspire to prevent us from getti
In fact 27 members minus the United Kingdom but youve got real problems youve got people like president macron of france as a very powerful reformer pushing for more integration youve got a kind of steady as she goes germany at the moment struggling with the leadership flux youve got rule of law issues nationalism populism in places like hungary and poland how do you reconcile thats life thats life it is their way these and we are not going to change these things other night but it does make it difficult for. The Commission President s view of a new Geopolitical Commission a geopolitical e. U. Based on shared sovereignty how do you create this sense of shared sovereignty working together and build in defeat. That we are facing are indivisible the death threat of terrorism we leave. The migrants illegal my. Good flow in libya is not just a threat with a meter ready in countries as much as the threat of the. Russia and can represent a threat to the some member stage and they used to both