The daily distancing show. From trevors couch in new york city to your couch somewhere in the world, this is the daily distancing show with Trevor Noah Trevor lets kick it off with good news. Like everyone now, scientists around the world are no longer thinking about anything other than the coronavirus. In fact, many scientists have dropped almost all other research and are only focusing on cures and treatments for covid 19, which i think is great, because i think scientists are too busy working on random shit, anyway. Theres always the one random scientist where you read the headline, new study shows ducks can only live two seconds in states. We dont even need to know that whos doing that experiment . How did you get money into this . Now scientists are deciding they will put cooperation ahead of competition and Share Research immediately rather than waiting for months published results and get credit for themselves, which makes sense to me, this is not the time to worry about credit.
780 points s p also up 3. 4 the nasdaq up by 2. 5 . This morning, you do see some red arrows right now, the dow is down by 111 points the nasdaq down by 65 points jobless claims number that people will be watching so closely. Keeping an eye on trezy yields, it looked like the yell was trading at 3. 7 . Thank you, we have an update now and numbers. Confirmed cases in the United States is now more than 432,000. More than infections in italy, spain and germany combined new york state has 151,000 and 6,200 deaths Trump Administration is saying they are seeing real evidence that the measures being taken are working. A battle is brewing on capitol hill over new outbreak funding demanding 250 billion in new funding. House speaker and Senate Minority leader saying any new package would need to include more for additional money for hospitals, state and local governments. The senate is expected to bring competing measures to the floor today. Neither are expected to pass fed chair jay powell is s
Our apologies to the half. Lets get to the judge messages of hope can bleed into this program any time thats a certainty its good to have all of you with us today as our breaking coverage continues with the market now stocks surging again today after historying actions by the federal reserve. Just about a 500point gain. Just shy of that just shy of 2 for the dow theres the nasdaq shy of 1 and the russell with a gain of 4 . Are we too far from the lows to turn back now or is this a simple bear market bounce that is likely to reverse josh brown, i turn to you first. We have regained 50 of the losses, where does this take us from here . What does all of this tell us now . Well. At first you would say we are now 28 off the low which is is extremely respectable and historically there have not been very many bear market rallies that have been carried this far. That is incredible just extraordinary after an almost 30 bounce, less than a fifth of the market is back in an up trend. Look at the
The 2020 election. Republicans, we want to know what you think about russians trying to interfere in the election. Your number will be 202 7488001. Democrats, we especially want to hear from you on this topic. Your number will be 202 7488000. Independents, your voice counts two, so your voice will be 202 7488002. Keep in mind, you can always text us your opinion. That number will be 202 7488003. And we are always reading on social media. , and oner at cspanwj facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Once again, this story was broken yesterday by the Washington Post. We will read a little bit from what the post story says about this this morning. U. S. Officials have told senator Bernie Sanders that russia is attempting to help his president ial campaign as part of an effort to interfere with the democratic contest, according to people familiar with the matter. President trump and lawmakers on capitol hill have also been did thin informed about the russian assistance to the senator, said people
Of december and november was a very strong month for stocks, even though you did see some declines on black friday youre looking at the best returns we saw since june for all of the major averages. Last week again, you did see some big gains too right now the dow, s p and nasdaq are still less than 1 to 2 of the intraday highs with these gains, youll see them challenging that as tom mentioned. Although, i also remember last the first trading day of december last year. Not quite as much fun. I still have some night mares about that. Would not be the only one with scars leftover from that. I think the dow was down 15 at one point in december last year we were having a great year. Markets were up, not up like they are this year. Bottomed on christmas eve, december 24th and saw things take off from there. Its been a very strong year. Will a santa claus rally power the s p 500 and dow to their best year in a generation . Could happen. Were up a lot. What will that take to get there, 5 . Pro