And it is beginning to look a lot like a socially distant christmas as the rock center tree lights up and as we all mask up and get in line. It is thursday, december 3, this is Worldwide Exchange. Good morning, good afternoon or good evening and welcome from wherever in the world that you may be watching. Im Brian Sullivan thanks for joining us. Here is how your money and Global Markets are setting up their day. Futures not giving us a lot of clues. Were pretty much mixed. We had more gains for the s p 500 yesterday. Yes, another record. Your 28th of the year if you are counting at home the nasdaq 100 also hitting a new record today though, we also focus squarely on oil. Opec and its allies meeting today to try to hammer out a deal to extend production cuts through march. They could not get a deal done on monday. Today rush 1sia and other natio join the talks if no deal is made or they reduce the cut instead of extending the entire thing, oil prices and stocks could take a big hit, tha
Though still awaits aprooul from the house of rep sentives. That vote expected tomorrow. Jobless claims surging above 3 million americans, far outpacing the record of 700,000 and also well above what economists were looking for around 1. 5 million unemployment claims and the virus itself remains front and center for wall street as italy reports more than 6,000 new cases, the most in five days, the worldwide total now shy of half a Million People wilfred. All of the sectors of the s p higher up 4. 7 . All higher, but one to keep an eye on is energy it has been the best performing. Its now towards the bottom. Still up by 4 oil prices slipped a lot this afternoon. Theyre down 7 , so well hope that doesnt drag the rest of the market lower weve got a huge lineup of gu guesting coming your way, ceo of General Mills, plus peter orszag whether he thinks the stimulus bill is enough to ease the pleading and well speak with the ceo of hertz about their program the give free rentals to new York Ci
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On the foreign intelligence act or fisa. The Senate Judiciary committee is and just a clarification senator ranks member is diane fi finestien. This should start in just a moment. Todays public hearing will be followed bay classified briefing tomorrow afternoon. This Committee Last held an oversight hearing on section 702 in may of 2016. Since then the drum beat of terror attacks against the United States and other countries particularly our allies has continued. A month after our hearing a terrorist attacked an orlando nightclub killing 50 and wounding 53. That same month a terrorist detonated pipe bombs in new jersey and new york injuring about 30. Last month Great Britain suffered its worst terror attack in over a decaddecade. It is at a concert in manchester. Many of the dead and wounded, as you know, were children and very young people. These attacks underscore that the first responsibility of government is to ensure that those who protect us every day have the tool to keep us saf
Matthew olson first of all, welcome, to all four of you. Matthew olson is cofounder of cyber security. Previously serving as the director of National Counterterrorism center where he briefed the National Security council and reported to president obama on counterterrorism actibeing aaci. Mr. Olsen also served general counsel, nsa, focusing on surveillance, law and cyber security. Under the bush administration, mr. Olsen served as acting assistant attorney general, National Security division, doj, mr. Olsen also served as executive director of Guantanamo Task force, special counsel director of the fbi, and served as federal prosecutor for more than a decade. Hes a graduate of the university of virginia and harvard law school. Adam klein is robert m. Gates Senior Fellow Center for new american security, widely published in areas of National Security, surveillance, counterterrorism law and policy. He was previously an attorney at International Law firm and also worked on National Security