Particularly for you. Having spent so much time close to her, what did you see about the greatness some of us do not get to see just watching her on the bench . Was a Justice Ginsburg surprising person in many ways. She was shy and retiring and super serious, and yet she had an extraordinary sense of humor. She loved to laugh. That is part of the reason she was able to maintain such great relationships with all of her colleagues on the Supreme Court and with everybody who worked with her, including her famous friendship with justice scalia. It was interesting to get a little bit of a window into how practical she was, how strategic she was. Person a very strategic and i think you see that in a lot of her rulings. In honor of a lifetime to tell her story. David one of the things that strikes me as remarkable is we forget when she started out, it was not recognized that the equal protection clause even applied to women and she systematically i got to see one of her arguments at the Supre
Years. And lots to come on the show. Two big ceo interviews on the back of earnings in a few minutes well speck to the owner of Outback Steakhouse blooking brands and later the ceo of boston beer will join us that stock surging after the truly hard seltzer brand helped boost sales. Looking forward to both of those interviews were down. 6 lets get to the big stories were watching meg tirell has more on the signing. And mike san totoli is joining s meg, let aers start with youen that executive order news. Hi. Drug pricing hasnt been in the conversation as much this year as the drug industry has been racing to develop vaccines and drugs for covid19 but the president reportedly planning to sign an executive order with a few different aspects on drug price this is afternoon. One could be allowing importation of drugs from canada where theyre price moored cheaply. Another could focus on tying prices to basket of prices from other wealthy countries. And a third could focus on providing free i
Employees. Bank of america and Morgan Stanley among big banks reporting. Dow component Johnson Johnson right here. Futures in the red. We are standing by for retail sales and jobless claims this morning at 8 30 a. M. Eastern. Stocks edging higher, Investor Sentiment over covid19 vaccine pushing markets into the green. The dow industrials up 227 points, nasdaq up 62 and s p up 29. The state of travel today airlines in the midst of a sharp downturn as pandemic fears keep travelers grounded at 7 30 a. M. Eastern ill be joined by ceo of delta edward bastian. Plus this, drink up, how moderate Alcohol Consumption can protect against cognitive decline. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria european markets on the decline. Standing by for the ecb decision for the next hour, rates are expected to stay unchanged. Ftse 100 is down 36 points, new data this morning from the uk shows half a million workers were furloughed in the month of may. Thats in response to the pandemic shutdown. This m
There would be governments to the rescue of fiscal underpinning to what is trying to be a recovery. You mentioned the important Goldman Sachs story, but clearly the markets are lifting here with a belief that governments will once more step in. Francine and there was a pretty incredible rally with shanghai stocks up 5 . Lets get to first word news in new york city with three. With ritika gupta. Ritika a coronavirus record. The seven day average of new cases reached another new high yesterday, and over the weekend florida and texas established daily records. The county the top county official in the houston area once more restrictions to contain the spread of the disease. The State Government has blocked her from doing more. Indiana has the thirdlargest number of coronavirus cases in has third india the Third Largest number of coronavirus cases in the world, surpassing russia. Theite implementing one of most expensive lucked out at the end of march. President trump sounds as though he i
The nasdaq hitting a new record high and amazon shares crossing 3,000 bucks a piece for the first time ever. Shannon, well start with you on this one what the you make of the rally is it legit and why is it happening now given everything we know negatively about the coronavirus virus . Were just continuing to see investors look at the sentiment thats coming out of the surveys and anticipating this continued v shape recovery we have seen the v shape recovery in the stocks already were anticipating a v shape recovery in the economy. I think that really rests on the fact that despite the fact were seeing this pick up in cases, theres not a widespread expectation that we go back to the lockdown that we saw in march and april. They really anchor themselves to the most recent period which was a very difficult period from an economic standpoint. Investors are continuing to look forward. They are continuing to see the Second Quarter being the earnings trough from this particular recession look