Results. We will get congressional insight all morning long. We will hear from georgia congressman earl buddy and connecticut senator rand paul. Loss of 100 points on dow futures. Markets extending slump from yesterday as more lockdowns and the threat of them offset positive news on vaccines. Its also been a big week for retails, bjs and macys reporting this morning all the numbers as soon as they hit the tape. Working from home may not save you money. Why paying a new tax while working remotely. A little holiday decorating can carry you through some tough times making a buzz this morning. Mornings with maria is live right now. Dagen european markets feeling the sting of more lockdowns, red across the board in france, england and germany, all down about 1 . Mixed story in asia overnight with fractional moves there. Kospi and south korea shanghai to the plus side. Cheryl casone has all the news that you need right now, good morning, cheryl. Cheryl good morning to you, dagen. United stat
Realize that this lawns full of weeds and dead grass and bugs and a golf ball okay, this is what the market is really about not this, but this see how the averages rallied again today, the dow inches up 47 points, s p advancing 2. 3 . The nasdaq gaining 1. 06 but almost 3 5ths of the stock in the s p 500 are actually down for the year were in high territory because of the other 2 5ths up a lot heres the real economy. The truth is, the weeds are more representative than the healthy patch of lawn, and in many ways its getting worse, not better, as the weeds begin, i think, to infect the nice part but when you look at the whole s p, you cant see the weeds you see, theyre obscured by Tech Companies with big gains. Who wants to talk about the other 291 stocks that are down for the year when you can focus on the incredible runs in amazon, microsoft, apple, facebook, alphabet its a lot more fun talking about tesla, up 378 than talking about gm or ford down 27 and 21 . Tesla has about 50,000 e
Megan in oakley. How are you . Doing just fine. Congratulations on your reopening. Hows Business Today . Busy, a little nervewracking but were doing really well. Do you have a waiting list . How long is the wait . Can you give us a sense for that . Im about two months booked out. Depends on the stylist. Weve had three months of clients so you can imagine the chaos that comes along with that. Is it because you dont have enough space in the salon . Yes, and also extra sanitization time but our stylists booked every day so thats 90 days of, well, probably 60 days of clients that you are fully booked every day and then here we go. Doors are open and its a mad dash to try to get everyone in while abiding to the laws and regulations. So youre extending your hours . We are, we are. High risk mondays where our clients who are higher risk will be allowed to come inurg times. And seven days a week, whatever they need to do to make that happen. Megan, i know during this time of closure, you made
Golden gate park is 52, South Southwest breeze at 4 miles per hour, so a slight punch there. No big deal. On the san mateo coast, it is going to burn off to sunshine, 60s and 70s today. It will be a Beautiful Day in this ones comfort zone. And sal, anything with us going on . Youre right, it is in my comfort zone there, hoping to give you a nice look at the bay area commute if you have to go. Right now it looks all right if you are driving on the bay bridge i like the way it looks, with no major issues. Weve had a couple of construction closures, but traffic is relatively light out there. Its a little better than it has been the last few days of the week. Certainly people are out there. In fact there are more out there now in the eight or 10 weeks we have been in this pandemic than we were at the beginning, but its not stopping. Lets go back to the headlines. All right, sal, there is a new report that there are 5 million confirmed coronavirus cases around the world, according to resear
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