A lifeline for sears that may be too little, too late. And the wait is over for baby yoda fans everywhere it is friday, february 21, 2020. Worldwide exchange begins right now. Good morning. Happy friday welcome to the show. Here is how stock futures are setting up their friday today. You can see here, stock futures indicating 140point drop for the average. S p open down about 17 points. The nasdaq is off by about 75. This is after a wild ride that had the dowdown about 350 points you can see there in that time lapse, a huge volatile trade in yesterdays session. In the bond market, 10year benchmark below the 1. 5 mark. 1. 48 there. Twoyear at 1. 37 . Treasuries a key focus as people buy up the safety of u. S. Government bonds lets send it over to Joumanna Bercetche in london with an update of what is happening around the world good morning. The handover from wall street has been interesting we are seeing a little green here shanghai composite up. The tech sector slightly better up 1. 1
Bleary eyed all day as the yankees astros went into the wee hours of today early today starts right now and good morning im dara brown. And im phillip mena. It is a holiday on capitol hill, but there is no break for the house impeachment inquiry into President Trump. A former aide on russia and europe is expected to testify before lawmakers today, and later this week, the u. S. Ambassador to the European Union is in the hot seat after initially refusing to comply with the subpoena. Meanwhile, joe bidens son is also breaking his silence after coming under fire from the president. Nbcs Kelly Odonnell has the latest reporter after the president s repeated taunting whatever happened to hunter reporter joe biden fighting back no one has asserted my son did a single thing wrong no one has asserted that i have done any wrong, except a lying president. Reporter and for the first time bidens son hunter is also speaking out through his attorney about hisnternational business ties that have been
I think it is needed for the current condition of the market. Nejra and burning the midnight oil. European leaders pull another allnighter in the search for the next European Commission president. We are live in brussels. Manus a warm welcome to daybreak europe. Oil is higher this morning, brent is up by 1. 5 . There is word on the street below me about certainty, about a surety. Those are the words from the secretarygeneral. The consensus is building. Termsonths is offered in of an extension to the opec cuts. Putined bin salman and agreed this before the delegates arrived. Nejra, good morning. It is a gorgeous day. We will be chasing ministers, we will find out what a ninemonth extension for the current cuts could do for the market with trump and xi talking to one another. Nejra absolutely, and that is the key link. Good morning to you. Because we got that agreement that could be rubberstamped at the opec plus meeting over the g20 weekend. It is interesting how important the g20 has b
lows and he shared a compilation of the barrage of threats of violence his office is receiving. we ll describe it as deeply disturbing, but worse than that. here s just a snippet of what they posted. . going to come protest in front of your house this weekend. we know who your family is and we re going to get you. the wrath of the lord god almighty come upon you, your health, your family, your home, your livelihood, and i pray if it be god s will that you suffer. you and liz cheney can both go to hell. we re going to get you. coming to your house, son. going to get you and liz cheney. going to get you two little [ bleep ]. [ laughter ] we re going to get you. so against the backdrop of a campaign by extremists to literally intimidate kinzinger, cheney and all of their fellow january 6th committee members into submission, house republicans are now plotting to do the ex-president s dirty work out in the open with what can only be described as a disinformation campaig
Him another opportunity to talk about whats important to him. He didnt shut up but he did a whole rot of dribbling and dunking. Teaming up to beat steph currys team in l. A. Those are some of our top stories on this president s day, monday, february 19th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Good morning, everybody on this holiday. Forget that sit a holiday for many folks across the country. And we begin with the students who made it out of the Florida Shooting rampage alive. The teenagers discovered an impassioned message, one by one demanding strict new gun control laws to keep kids safe. Some will meet face to face with florida legislatures and the president himself. Abcs jim ryan has the latest. Reporter students who survived the massacre in florida are spoking out. This is not about republicans and democrats. Reporter channelling their grief and frustration and calling for a nationwide student and teacher walkout, promoting antigun violence demonstrations in washington