Were following all of that today. Well get to the markets in a moment we do begin with our top story the president and first lady testing positive for the coronavirus. Our shep smith joining us with the latest its news on the east coast here is the news the president and first lady are positive for covid19. The first lady reports she has mild symptoms but feels good the white house says the president has mild symptoms. President trump is in good spirit ossen ca spirtss on a call this morning. President trump is in both categories he continues to be not only in good spirits but very energetic. We have talked a number of times this morning i got the five or six things that he had tasked me to do, like i do every single morning he is wanting to make sure that we stay engaged. I think the other thing that is critically important, the doctors continue to monitor both his health and the health of first Lady Joe Biden sent his thoughts to the president and first lady for swift recovery now th
The dow down by almost 1,000 points the decline of 1. 8 . S p by over 8 the nasdaq a miracle come back after a laydate rally weve been bouncing around positive territory right now, the dow down around 14 points, s p up about seven points and the nasdaq up about 70 points. We are talking about a town month for the markets, we are looked at four sessions in a row. Thats the longest losing streak looking at these numbers, you are talking about these lower numbers. Month after month i think we had april, may, june, july, august are all up. Stocks only go up not in september. In an Election Year it can take on significance. The nasdaq can move. We can see it down 400 or more points can that close higher again today . Thats a good move you could look at it midmorning and then it seems like it is not the tale at this point kind of the log. Faang, tesla and the leadership move. Apple made the rally yesterday too. Gold is supposed to go up bitcoin, supposed to go up weird. Thats where you think
His biggest Daily Advance in three months. Lets bring you the bloomberg first word news and the u. K. Government is telling the to work from home if possible telling the public to work from home with possible full to the Prime Ministers holding an emergency cobra meeting this morning for briefing parliament, thewill make a broadcast to public at 8 00 p. M. Local time. The billiondollar initiative to the polio vaccine around the world is moving to the next phase. Over 150 countries and regions including 64 higher income nations are taking part. Solutionis to find a to covid a little sooner than we were expecting. Pressure onto put Alexander Lukashenko are on pause. Ministers on monday failed to agree. On how to handle turkeys energy claims in them eastern eastern mediterranean. That is global news 24 hours a day on air and on bloomberg quicktake. We will have plenty more on the markets and we will go over some of the other news we are watching. Tom, good morning. Tom francine, good morn
Watch. Give us your reaction to what were hearing from bob woodward. Despite what you heard on that tape, they began to move the operation of government, they ultimately mobilized private industry to have ventilators, at one time there was a real fear we would have a shortage of those. Going to have a vaccine faster than anytime in the history of the world. Maria your reaction to this pause in the Covid Vaccine at astrazeneca. Well, you know, this is one of the reasons why Clinical Trials are done. This is an indication theyre being done safely. Maria we will see another stimulus package, mark . I do believe well see that. If we would just listen to the American People and meet those needs like the president of the United States is doing. Maria do you believe we see more guilty pleas in addition to kevin klein smith . The challenge has always been who ordered the kill shot, so to speak. So clearly, there was a conspiracy here. This wasnt just dreamt up by a good old fbi agent that was
Watch. Give us your reaction to what were hearing from bob woodward. Despite what you heard on that tape, they began to move the operation of government, they ultimately mobilized private industry to have ventilators, at one time there was a real fear we would have a shortage of those. Going to have a vaccine faster than anytime in the history of the world. Maria your reaction to this pause in the Covid Vaccine at astrazeneca. Well, you know, this is one of the reasons why Clinical Trials are done. This is an indication theyre being done safely. Maria we will see another stimulus package, mark . I do believe well see that. If we would just listen to the American People and meet those needs like the president of the United States is doing. Maria do you believe we see more guilty pleas in addition to kevin klein smith . The challenge has always been who ordered the kill shot, so to speak. So clearly, there was a conspiracy here. This wasnt just dreamt up by a good old fbi agent that was