It is not over. It is just beginning the days are long right now. We are going to take that. Im becky quick along with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. We are sitting at the flat line. Dow down about 7 or 8 and nasdaq up by about 13 yesterday, the dow was down 710 points a decline of 2. 7 s p off 2. 6. Came with huge steep declines going as smoothly as people had hoped. All of those concerns added up to steep losses. Looking at the treasury yield at 0. 669 now you see additional pressure as we continue to watch that case count talking about that, the United States seeing a Record Number of new coronavirus cases in a single day. Tallyi tallying 45,000300 that tops the numbers from april reporting that visitors that travel from hot spots to new york, new jersey to connecticut will be asked to quarantine two weeks. Those who defy that order. Hot spots include arizona, utah, texas, arkansas, alabama, north and South Carolina President Trump says he will not follow the quarantine order wh
Here it is, word for word, quote, trump says china may or may not keep the trade deal, end quote. That sent stocks into the close. Check out the move on the nasdaq, for instance it was up big for most of the day and the sharp slide in the final moments of trade ditto for the s p 500. So guy adami, is china back in play here . Is this the next big risk factor for the markets . Yes, and before i get into great detail, i have to wish tim seymour, as he power pitches today, a very happy birthday just wanted to get that out. Happy birthday, tim seymour what was that very kind thank you. Yeah. I absolutely think this is a big deal and we started talking about it last week, and not in terms of their trade deal or where theyre going to keep their end of the bargain and in terms of some of the rhetoric coming out of the Trump Administration what im commenting is the rhetoric seems to be getting louder and in no way, shape or form is that market bullish especially given the fact that the markets
The actual conditions we face over recent decades with the dark stories that we hear with those conditions of diamerican experience and that the critics of ther market economy those are among the most important of those critics the controversial pieces i am resistant to be told everything is fine. But it is an argument that you will see here tonight that is a fairly supportive thesis in the book. When the smartest social analyst and policy thinkers in washington the chair and senior fellow of economic studies at the Brookings Institution with the future of the middle class and the author of a number of books including dream orders. And the format is very simple. And the moderator brief conversation and with the q a. So lets welcome michael strain. [applause] thank you for that very generous introduction. It contains the argument that you are making the American Dream is not dead the subtitle it is excellent cover theres nothing to read on the inside but we will talk about that. So what
In the handlers, as he spent cities. Good evening everybody will get started welcome to the American Enterprise institute. And director of social cultural and constitutional studies. Ai. It is my great pleasure tonight talking you to discussion of important new book by my good friend and colleague, michael read michael is the director of economic studies. Ai is a widely published scholar labor economic Public Finance and many other areas in his new book is an exceptionally clear and broad overview of the state of an American Economic life. The actual conditions we face, the trends, over recent decades and others relate to some of the dark stories that we hear in our politics about the conditions that americans are experiencing also where profits are. Any sort of saved things that are much better than the mode of our politics and the critics of the market economy would sometimes suggest that we do face risks in the navy that mood and those critics, are the among the most important of th
All of this out. Stocks are in and out of touching 7 fall i dont have that would trigger another Circuit Breaker. At the worst we were down 6. 7 . Now down about 5 1 2 . That translates into a dow barely above 20,000. The same drama, surreal one continues to play out across the country. I want to show you what is happening this is new yorks times square, this has been pretty much the youre not seeing many people drawn to the crossroad of america, among some of the busiest thorough fares on the planet. Youre seeing similar situations play out in seattle, washington. Youre also seeing it play out in the likes of hoboken new jersey where the mayor there has, is saying that people should go ahead and obviously selfquarantine themselves, if you will, or selfisolate. New york Governor Cuomo by the way has distanced himself from new york city mayor de blasio who is advocated an across the board crackdown, a lockdown here, that would call for pretty much everyone, at least in manhattan, at lea