Down days for the markets. Right now s p down by about 11, dow by 96, nasdaq off by about 47 we were so close to you dow 30,000 earlier in the week, but that seems to be slipping away a little bit 29,400 and change is where the dow is right now and again, down two days in a row, down again this morning and after yesterdays declines, all three of the major averages are in negative territory for the week a lot of things happening with covid and well talk more about that in a moment, but some of those concerns creeping back into what you see in the markets. If you are looking at the treasury market, the yield on the ten year right now is sitting just at about 0. 852 and the vix also spiking yesterday, probably a little bit on concerns about what happens as we go back into some of the lockdowns. The seesaw of good and bad news on covid. And well give you a bit of good news that happened overnight in the vaccine wars developed by the university of oxford and astrazeneca found to be safe. An
Hello everybody welcome to the brookings event on election and here at the Brookings Institute to have several colleagues to join me for an indepth discussion on this topic we will do a twopart event today starting with what you see before you. With the integrative process and then as second panel on the problems tackling this implication with a campaign were in the midst of. And with those keynote remarks some one from someone on the front lines. And the infrastructure security with the department of homeland security. And with they are doing with those t issues and then to go into a discussion with mark harvey with the National Security council for the person in charge of coordinating all of the initiatives. And with Election Security and integrity. And at the Harvard Institute of politics will also trying to work with the outreach on those issues and to understand whats involved on the various issues and to be and in the midterms. And with the organization especially devoted with th
Covid19 own Macro Economic Development Going forward. I in leary, we should expect lower Going Forward. Ab in bef shares up. Vw slashes its dividend after posting the first half operating loss and renault posts a loss and says it is impossible to give any guidance. Astrazeneca rallies as Second Quarter sales top forecast the ceo says he expects to benefit from the Covid Vaccine this is a business that is redirect examinatio resilient. Weve managed the crisis well. Patients are returning to physicians a very warm welcome to street signs. Now on the gdp front, german adjusted preliminary gdp the calendar adjusted q2 number down 11. 7 slightly worse than the 11. 3 forecast the sharpest decline from 1970 the calendar adjusted level, 11. 7 versus 11. 3 predicted the rebound in that data, the pmis came in growth territory but still q2, a very severe decline. Lets bring in annette who knows more about the German Economy than i do. The 11. 7 drop in gdp. Exactly it is worse than expected but t
Fox News White House correspondent kevin corke. Kevin, you spent a lot of time around the white house, the president s, his. What are your thoughts on the news that came out tonight . Like most other americans, first, youre a little bit shocked and surprised given the protocol. You get a quick sense were tested when we go into the white house, we are tested when were around the president and in his particular case as you saw, all the staffers, the first lady, theyre all tested on a regular basis. Its a little bit surprising and i would say from that perspective. However, you hit the nail on the head and when you do a lot of aggressive travel, three stops last week, and again we are right down to the home stretch into the 2020 election. They have been more aggressive and on the road a little bit more. Obviously, its more unfortunately there is more risk of exposure. I would say from that perspective im surprised. I can tell you again based on everyone we talked to tonight and like you i
About county in any court of appropriate jurisdiction. Its not unusual. It should not be alarming. At some point here we will find out finally who was certified in each of these states in the Electoral College will determine the winner. President elect joe biden responding to trumps election challenges. The fact that they are not willing to knowledge we won at this point is not of march consequence in our planning and what we are able to do between now and january 20th. I think its an embarrassment quite frankly. I think it will not help the president s legacy. Dana lets take it around a half circle here. Katie. Katie i think when you look at the lawsuits being filed in the arguments being made by the Trump Campaign and a look at the democrats response, saying theres no evidence of any wrongdoing. We now have some evidence of wrongdoing and irregularities. We have notes from poll watchers about things that do not match up in a number of different states. The question is going to be whe