Nobody wants a second wave. The market starts the week on the upside again. Investors like the get back to work trend and there are several forecasts of imminent recovery for the economy. Secretary mnuchin says there will be a rebound july, august and september. The dow is looking at a 200 point gain first thing this morning. Thats close to 1 . A nice gain for the s p, close to 1 . The nasdaq will be up over a half percentage point. Now, the reason the nasdaq is up, because of this. This week, many Big Tech Companies report their financial position. Strong results expected because the virus lockdown has a more limited effect on these companies. Premarket, most of them are up. But look at oil. No joy for the drillers. They are looking at 12 a barrel and the worldwide glut shows no sign of easing. Over the weekend, the price slump claimed another victim, diamond shamrock. The drillers declared bankruptcy. The price of gas still falling, albeit slowly, about one cent down a day. The avera
Yielding back below 1. 6 and below at 1. 957 well get january retail data coming up at 10 30 eastern time expecting an increase of 0. 3 . February read on Consumer Sentiment due after the opening bell bit of a light day on earnings well hear from Canopy Growth. See how high they go joe is giving me a look. Leisman is writing your jokes now . Astrazeneca ceo joins us live we start with coronavirus and viral video. I want a new name. It is in all of our minds now. Those numbers, 17,000. Well have azar on today i dont think it is surprising i think we thought for a long time it was really underreported or unable to track the things ill ask alex later is what i asked the gentleman yesterday heading up some of the efforts in new york city, are we preparing for testing people if it comes to that . I dont want to think it will come to that because it will mean in this country we need to test people. I hope it doesnt. The official from here in new york city, i didnt like his answer get test ki
Local media and syria reporting at least 9 people have died in a car bomb in the countrys west of happen in a fleeing in the aleppo countryside they have been several bombings in the region since turkey began its offensive in Northern Syria earlier this month. Now the Iraqi Military says one person has been killed after 2 rockets were fired into baghdads heavily fortified green zone it happened shortly after another incident at a nearby bridge during a weeklong protest what nessus a Security Forces shot at least one protester dead and injured many more norbert unmanly reports. Defying clouds of tear gas and reports of live ammunition these protesters a tearing down concrete barriers their aim to reach the highly secured green zone government offices in embassies. Iraqi Human Rights Commission says many protesters were injured after being hit with tear gas canisters as they face Government Forces in the synoptic bridge in central baghdad. Its the 3rd night since a curfew was imposed by
Best known tall response and had earned World Heritage status in 2000. The fire broke out in the main buildings before dawn the flames spreading quickly through the ancient timbers more than 10 fire engines were sent to tackle the blaze but there was little they could do local people looking on helplessly the full extent of the damage was revealed at 1st light many of the buildings reduced to smoking ruins the castle dates from the rio q kingdom which spanned 450 years until lock in our was an expired japan in the 19th century. As a symbol of the islands heritage it had in recent days been holding an annual festival recreating rituals from the past. Ok now as loss will be felt by japan as a whole. I understand sure a castle a World Heritage site is an extremely important symbol of okinawa i feel my heart ache a stan my heartfelt sympathy to the people of iraq in our. The castle had been wrecked and restored before from fierce fighting between u. S. And Japanese Forces at the end of wor
The United States makes major policy decisions based on the day to day action in the stock market is it wrong when he puts his thumb on the scales of favor of the bulls . When i say that trump is the most stock market sensitive president in modern history, im talking about days like today where the dow jumped 372 points, s p surged 1. 48 and the nasdaq went 1. 95 all because the president delayed some key tariffs that were supposed to go into effect on september 1st instead, certain important items like laptops, like cell phones are now exempt until december 15th so at the very least, Many Companies have more time to adjust and maybe they never get hit at all if the chinese agree to make real concessions why did he do it i think President Trump soaw the market melting down yesterday. Right on the heels of a major pull back on friday. And he took action to turn things around. After all, he does want to get reelected next year. Its easy to do when stocks are in great shape if you own sto