Up to deliver vaccines to remote areas. We start on wall street where the Stock Market Rally continues with the s p 500 and nasdaq closing at new record highs. Americas Top Companies are reporting better than expected results. The senate is inching towards passing President Biden s 1. 9 trillion stimulus package. And theres been another fall in the number of americans filing forjobless benefits a sign the Labour Market is stabilising. There are still huge problems facing the worlds biggest economy but investors believe the flow of cheap money from the Federal Reserve will keep on coming. The biggest problem isjust that we have 20 million americans who are still in some state of receiving Unemployment Insurance benefit so we still have a really long way to go on the labour front and that take quite a bit of time to resolve. But gdp and output may recover faster but it will take more time to employ that many americans. I think it means that for market, we now believe that for market, we
And hours long session on the critical measure that could pave the way for President Bidens 1. 9 trillion relief package. Jillian Griff Jenkins has a breakdown, you always win. Reporter more exciting than watching the super bowl you can watch your senate hard at work on votearama. Theyve been at this since 2 30 p. M. Yesterday. It is a timehonored tradition where the Minority Party forces the Majority Party to endure endless amendments putting senators on the record. Any senator can offer an amendment to the Budget Measure and so far 850 have been filed and as we have seen overnight more than 30 reached a roll call voice vote on the floor. Unclear when the ends. We are told maybe in an hour or so. We will keep you posted. Some amendments pass, others fail. When it did pass, senators todd young, proposal to block Illegal Immigrants from getting stimulus checks. It was adopted but 42 lawmakers voted against it and some of the issues which range from tax increases on Small Businesses to t
Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are the author and journalist mihir bose, and former pensions minister, baroness altmann. Lets start with a look at some of those front pages for tomorrow. The metro leads with the vaccination programme. It says there are hopes that all over 50s could have covid jabs by the end of march. According to the daily mail, ministers are hoping to ease restrictions in may. But the guardian carries an interview withjeremy hunt, the former Health Secretary, who advises against lifting lockdown until coronavirus cases fall to 1,000 a day. When lockdown does ease, Outdoor Sport and Socialising Are Set to be among the first activities to return thats according to the times. The telegraph focus on the Hotel Quarantine plans, for people arriving from Coronavirus Hotspots it says ministers are racing to reserve more than 28,000 hotel rooms, in preparation for that Scheme Starting in mid february. The mirror l
Hotspots is expected to come into force on the 15th of february. Hello and welcome whether youre watching in the uk or Around The World. Stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. We start in washington, where President Joe Biden has made his first majorForeign Policy speech as president. Diplomacy is back, he said. And america is back ready to work with others to solve global challenges once again. It was a huge shift in tone, and in direction from the last four years. The president said he was prepared to talk to americas adversaries and pointed to an early example the extension of a treaty with russia to limit Nuclear Weapons stocks. But he also had a warning for moscow. At the same time, i made it clear to President Putin in a manner very different from my predecessor that the days of the United States rolling over in the face of russias aggressive actions interfering with our elections, cyber attacks, poisoning its citizens are over. We will not