Ol boost here. That is propelling the entire market. Gold is having another good day. In case youre counting it is not good for gold bugs, what bugs we dont keep track of what gold is doing, whether stocks are up or down gold has inexorable advance up 2 . In case youre counting, that is up 33 on the year. That is dwarfing any other particular investment. I would include in that batch all the major market averages and what is happening with bonds. Gold has glitter that defies almost all the traditional trajectories you see. Lets get a read from Jackie Deangelis following the fastmoving market developments. What is going on here . Reporter good afternoon, neil. Lets start with disney stock that is propelling the stock is higher. It is up by 325 points. There were mixed earnings reports, but what wall street is focusing on is disney plus and subscriber numbers. 100 million streaming subscriber numbers. 65 million are paid. Put it in context, disney set a goal of 60 to 90 million subscribe
You nighted mine workers of America International president now on the future of the coal industry. He spoke at the National Press club about issues facing the union. Welcome to the National Press club. I am the 112th president of the National Press club and a well, im an incoming investigations editor at the Associated Press rig. Right now im unemployed. We extend warm greetings to those of you listening to us on the radio or watching us on tv. Dorian turned up the east coast, Climate Change and what to do about it is at the top of political agenda for many. Alexandria ocasiocortez put forward a controversial Green New Deal. Washington state governor built his now aborted president ial Campaign Around climate and Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have called out fossil fuels as the primary culprit. Our guest today, president of the United Mine Workers of america and a Vice President of the aflcio says some critical people have been left out of the conversation. Workers who
inside politics i am john king in washington. high stakes at the high court, 40 million americans have 40 million dollars on the line. whether biden plans to erase student debt is constitutional. how fox put profit ahead of politics and fairness and tipping off trump campaign about joe biden s advertising buys. nine-way brawl where crime concerns could see locked out of an april runoff. supreme court hearing arguments in a case that impacts millions of americans. case involves present biden s student debt relief program. it is massive and wipe out 430 billion dollars in federal loans, estimated 40 million people qualify, forgives 10,000 for borrows that make less than 125,000 and up to 20,000 who get pel grants. today nine justices hearing two cases, one is a challenge from six republican-led state who is want to block biden s executive actions they say administration exceeded constitutional authority here. second case two individual borrowers suing because they are not eli
Mines are for that etal how much countries are developing how much steel we need to make buildings. Host Manuel Quinones is our first guest this morning. Special phone lines today. We want to hear your comments coal miners and family members of coal miners, 2027488001. Otherwise, lines are split up regionally. ,entral and eastern time zones 2027488000. Mountain pacific time zones, 2027488002. Lets talk about the power plants themselves. Where will you find coal power plants in the United States . Guest they are all over the country. You have a lot of coalfired power plants in ohio and indiana and missouri. Western states, youve got Southern States it really runs the gamut. If you look at the ohio valley area, an area that has been historically coal heavy because it is easy to transport, you have rivers and rail and a lot of mines nearby, but really, it is distributed across the country. Theres a lot of states that have tried to move away from coal. A lot of states have been moving away
Good friday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. John fortt and i are back, joining our sara eisen once again. Good morning, guys. May nonfarm, calling for 184,000. National quick director gary cohn spoke to squawk on the stre street earlier this morning. When you look at how many people we brought back into the workforce and you look at the u6 number, the fact that its down since inauguration day, were clearly bringing people back in the job force. That said we want to continue to grow the job force and the president has talked about that. Thats why were so focused on tax reform and infrastructure. We believe we have to create a better and better job market in the United States. For more on the number, the market reaction, we are joined by jp morgans chief strategist. David, ill start with you. On a weak number like this across the board, is it a blip, speed bump in the trajectory or a signal of a bigger, more worrisome trend . The good news is that its tight as a drum. The bad news is t