Bombshell from the department of justice. New documents revealed. Fbi discussed Michael Flynn to lie and get him fired. We have more coming up. Earning season rolling on this morning. After the bell tonight attention turns to amazon and apple. Markets this morning are higher. Take a look at future, indicating a gain at start of trading this morning in about 3 and a half hours. Dow industrials on track for best month since january, meanwhile major averages yesterday snapped 3month losing streak, best month since 1974. Shares of facebook are soaring, ad sales stabilizing, take a look at facebook shares. Eighteen dollars a share. Up nine and a third percent, 212 and change. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria markets are higher this morning. You saw futures on wall street. In europe we are looking at markets searching for direction a bit. Ftse 100 is down but the cac quarante is up 17 and dax index higher by 24. Pandemic taking toll on euro zone economy. Contracting 3. 8 . The ec
Here as well. Looking at continental europe, spain and france are two countries the hardest hit by the coronavirus along with italy. They are set to ease lockdowns. We have Pedro Sanchez expecting to announce the loosening of measures after the weekly Cabinet Meeting which takes place later today. Later today also, france will be presenting the governments blueprint to the National Assembly on tuesday afternoon, and that should outline how they plan to ease peoples confinement as well. Is the original epicenter of the outbreak on the continent that will soon allow people to leave their homes for the first time in weeks, and that should mean they will be joining other countries including the likes of germany and austria in relaxing of shops to array open up including tattoo studios. In the u. K. , Boris Johnson saying the British Public should keep on obeying lockdown rules to avoid a disasters second wave of this outbreak here as well, coming as the number of recorded deaths from coron
For the country and the economy with ian bremmer who says we should be thinking in terms of three years. Plus, well speak with Kevin Durants Business Manager about the lockdown of the sport. 59 minutes left of trade iing. Lets focus on the big stories mike is tracking todays Market Action near the highs of the session. Phil lebeau watching boeing dragging down the dow. David faber covering the executive shake up at at t and kayla on the latest round of government stimulus. Mike, first you on what were seeing slight gains, still lower on the week an upward drift here in the afternoon, but as you suggest within the range, obviously just consolidating r very, very big really historic magnitude of a rally we saw during march. April rather weve come right here, 28 20s is an interesting level in late summer its kind of rushed up last summer we were afraid of some kind of perhaps tipping into a mild recession. Here we are looking at a vastly worse recession. The earnings picture is very opaqu
Vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the yeas are 80, the nays are 16. The bill, as amended, is passed. A senator mr. President. The presiding officer the senator for wisconsin. Mr. Johnson mr. President , i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak for up to ten minutes each. The presiding officer without objection. A senator mr. President. The presiding officer the senator for minnesota. Ms. Klobuchar mr. President , i come to the floor today to urge the senate to immediately take action to address the issue of elections. And specifically to address technical changes to the 400 million in electric security funding passed in the cares act and to talk about the coronavirus threat to our democracy itself. 16 states have already postponed their president ial primaries or transitioned that i primary their primaries to almost voting entirely by mai
A lot more of that coming up in about 10 minutes. So not heard of anything new but with ask him ourselves. Morning sir. Morning. We do have traffic that is doing well across the bay area for the most part there is not a lot of slowing. Look at the live pictures that we have for you. You can see the bridge is doing well including the bay bridge toll plaza and really every bridge doing very well right now. Because a lot of people are not driving to work. It is 5 01 am. Lets go back to your headlines. Happening today some states are relaxing the state home restrictions. In georgia at restaurants and theaters are going to be reopening. This follows the reopening of tattoo parlors and nail salons and hair salons. Businesses that dont deal with the public can soon return to work. In indiana dentist rheumatologist and veterinarians can reopen. Retail is open for Curbside Service in colorado. Other states easing restrictions including kentucky, mississippi montana, texas, and tennessee. The sh