Move news out of moderna that they have a vaccine that is 94 point 5 effective on preparation of volunteers greater than 30,000 people. Real optimism there. We have the s p 500 finishing higher. We have nice gains out of the mat out of the nasdaq and moderna is sharply higher. We have a big Institutional Investment here. The big news out of berkshire, they added to their portfolio in the space of health care meyer,ng pfizer, bristol with the virus, perhaps these additions have something to do with the virus. Pfizer had been down in the day after the news around the virus came out. A divergence there. An interesting day. Interesting movement in the afterhours. Emily that was bloombergs abigail doolittle. Think you for that round up. I want to the airbnb filing. This is releasing Financial Results and previously confidential information on its operation. This listing is had to be one of the biggest of the year, capping an ipo surge. More, i want to bring in crystal. Pull up some of the h
Arizona, and hospital cases in california all marking new highs. Plus top advisers to President Trump are set to urge the u. S. To undermine the hong kong dollar peg to punish china for its crackdown in the city. Ons get a quick check up how markets are set up for the open. Here is Sophie Kamaruddin in hong kong. Sophie in asia this wednesday, we are seeing a mixed start to the session with focus on china and if mainland stocks can keep up that rally we have seen for six days. Futuresd 14 so we have in the green for the most part. Hang seng futures settling higher after the rally did stall in hong kong on tuesday. Switching out the board, checking in on the hong kong dollar, which continues to have the 7. 75 mine as they continue to defend the peg, we are seeing little reaction in the curb. Jumping into the terminal for a big picture book, low 200 pips after the spike we saw in may but staying elevated on economic and political uncertainties. Tracking any reaction to a bloomberg report
Latest kayla . Melissa, this effort by the white house to target social Media Companies for a perceived bias has been under way for nearly a year, but in the wake of twitters Fact Checking President Trumps own tweets, policy officials rushed the executive order out today. Heres what is in it which the president signed this afternoon. Agencies from the fcc to the ftc and many other agencies in between are directed to review liability shields that are provided to these content companies that protect them from lawsuits over what appears on their platforms. The department of justice are directed to organize state attorneys general to enforce the crackdown. The federal government is also going to be issuing a widespread review of taxpayer dollars that are going to these platforms in terms of the governments own ad spending and all of this is expected to happen over the next 30 days. These agencies are supposed to report back and these funding totals are supposed to be submitted to the offic
President trump donald trump saying america is winning the war against the virus. Dr. Anthony fauci says at least part of the economy could reopen next month. Over at the capital additional funding for Small Businesses, Congressional Republicans to add 251 billion, democrats looking for more money and a much broader use of the funds. Meantime futures are pointing to a lower open to kick off this week. You have almost 300point loss on the dow futures after u. S. Markets in a short week last week rallied big time. The dow, nasdaq and s p all up more than 10 . S p having the best week since the mid70s. 1974. Deadly storms slamming parts of the United States over easter weekend. The southeast still being battered by horrible weather. We will have a live update. Mornings with maria is live now. Dagen and good morning, maria. Maria good morning, everyone. Dagen, thank you. We want to check Global Markets. This is a big week. Hope everybody had a great easter. Lets check Global Markets right
Coronavirus induced volatility plus quarterback buoyed by a string of super tuesday victories for the former Vice President. Is the contender for the democratic valuation former investor jeff ubben, never seen anything like this and says why it makes Value Investing impossible the fed announced a 0. 5 rate cut. Stocks looking to recoup most of yesterdays losses which includes a drop in the dow of 785 points jim, once that tenyear broke 1 , wow. Could you not take your eyes off of this price action look, i think that i was struck by the rate cuts. I didnt like jay powell you cant say listen, the fundamentalless as are sound bue need a gigantic rate cut that means the fundamentals arent sound i didnt know we were that bad off. People either way we are bad off or powell knows something and to see that you get a Biden Victory and maybe things bounce back a little is encouraging and mostly because its just about the tenyear the tenyear drops to 9. 8, then everything you see on your screen t