Flat for 2020 as tech continues to lead the gains. Financials and utilities amongst the worst performers today coming up on todays show, we will speak exclusively with sap ceo Christian Klein about his companys efforts to develop a coronavirus Contact Tracing app and what hes hearing from customers about the state of local business and the earnings reports will come fast and furiously this afternoon highlighted by lyft, grub hub, tmobile and well speak with tmobile Ceo Mike Sievert ahead of his companys Conference Calls just after numbers cross. The big stories we are watching, mike santoli following the volatile trading action, Steve Liesman with a look at the economy and another sobering jobs number today, and deirdre bosa is covering uber and lyft mike, start us off the s p struggling to stay in this zone for the past few weeks. This is a oneyear march its flattened out since april is it resting, rolling over . Its a bit of a standoff i think people are saying right now its preserve
Routes, 10 stations and more than 100,000 annual riders. Rail is vital to mississippi. I have been a tireless advocate for the restoration of the gulf coast Passenger Service. It was suspended in 2005 after hurricane katerina. With funding support from dot , amtrak in the states im , pleased to report that mississippi, louisiana and alabama are likely again to have this amtrak route and that will give mississippi a third amtrak route. Restoration of the service would support growing populations centers, connect tourist destinations, bring new jobs and improve the regions quality of life. This will make a positive difference for the communities and the people of the mississippi gulf coast. This hearing provides opportunity to examine the state of Passenger Rail and consider how to support existing routes like the southwest chief and restore gulf port gulf coast service. In i introduced along with 2015, senator booker the Railroad Reform enhancement and efficiency act which reauthorized
Shazam is this an Artificial Intelligence play . Were going to look. Whats to buy ahead of tax reform debate on whether Airline Stocks could be the big beneficiaries of any tax bill. But we do start with the story thats taken wall street, main street, any street, frankly, by storm, and that is bitcoin. Bitcoin futures popping in their first full day of trading on the cboe Cnbcs Bob Pisani joining us with that story. Bob, everybody is talking about it. It is and its finally happened the good thing is at least trading has happened and relatively orderly we passed 18,000, folks. Bitcoin futures opened 6 00 last night eastern time, 15,000, moved up very, very quickly. Here you see its over 18,000. So its been small, 3,600 contracts, figure the math here. 17,000 p 17,000, 18,000 about 60 million. Thats not a lot but its a start at least heres whats important. Lets go over what exactly a futures contract is, why this is so important first of all, its just agreement to buy or sell a commodity
Later, bill orilely is officially out at fox. First, the crude plush oil having its worst day, settling down nearly 4 . Gas inventories in the u. S. Jumped for the first time in two months, sparking demand worries. Energy stocks by far and away the worst performance sector, following the commodity lower. When crude turned lower, the markets went along with this. Lets put this in context. You stalled tax agenda, falling oil. Its a bad earnings reaction. In fact, ibm the worst performer on the dow, on its earnings today. So the perfect storm brooi brewing for stocks. Steve, what do you say . When you look at crude, you look at the prism of the 50 mark. The stocks, the actual commodity. But i have been negative on krudz and crude stocks, feeling at the saudi aramco potential ipo has been a real setup. Its the biggest head fake for me. Because every analyst, every buy side is looking to get a piece of it. Every sell side is looking to buy into that event. Its setting up literally for a per
From london. Im david foster. Also coming up, as belgians Prime Minister appeals for calm and solidarity, brussels remains on lockdown and people are told to stay where they are. Reporter we will do whatever is necessary to support our friend and ally belgian in bringing to justice those responsible. The u. S. President condemns the attack during his historic trip to cuba. Isil has said it was behind separate attacks in brussels this morning that left 34 people dead. Those who lost their lives were killed in two locations. Hundreds more have been hurt. The first attacks were at brussels main airport. Twine explosions there killed 14 people. Then a blast on a commuter train at a central brussels station killed at least 20. Suicide attacks we understand, and they were timed to target morning travelers. The first blast at the airport were about 8 15 local time. Some witnesses say gunshots were heard there. And an hour later the attack at the station in the heart of brussels. This was in t