Fox Business Team coverage. Phil flynn is the man of the hour watching all the oil action for us so well get to phil. Lauren simonetti on market. Blake burman from the white house. Well have more reporting from washington. Phil, like i said you you are te man of the hour. You never saw a day like this. Take us through it. Never in my life. A lot of people watching this market never thought they would see a day like this. You have a perfect situation where the contract coming for delivery with no demand there is somebody out there right now that wants to sell oil and there is nobody there to buy it. In fact this is the first time weve ever seen this kind of situation, connell, and it could be a shortterm situation because you look at some of the back months and the price of oil, there are still relatively strong compared to the front month but this is a disaster. It is a disaster because opec didnt act fast enough to cut production. It is a disaster because u. S. Producers didnt pull ba
Heard in the vicinity of the president ial palace as schrock on he made his inauguration speech on started speaking again was the noise subsided, telling attendees to stay calm. Ghani, the former president , took the oath of office today, after he was declared the winner of todays contested president ial election. The former chief executive who also declared himself the winner held a parallel ceremony in the capital. Both claim victory in the contested vote that was marred by allegations of vote rigging. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency warned iran today that he expects to get access to the undeclared suspected nuclear sites. His warning follows the announcement last week that it identified three locations in iran where Nuclear Activity may have taken place without being declared to international observers. Of denial ofcase access under additional protocol. We never had this before. Second aboutr a iran. If i get a denial under additional protocols for complementary a
This is worse than almost all of those days as well. 2008. Well put it in perspective. Im connell mcshane. Melissa im Melissa Francis this is after the bell. The s p 500, the nasdaq both closing down more than 7 . President trump is expected to meet with senior officials at the white house this afternoon amid coronavirus fears. Well bring you any headlines from the president this hour. We have fox Business Team coverage. Phil flynn is watching all the action. That is where the action is, in the oil pits of the cme. Kristina partsinevelos is on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and blake burman is live at the white house. Phil, im going to start with you. I have some ideas. The president could open up and fill the spr. Hey, that is a great idea. They were selling high a few months ago trying to get rid of it to pay off the budget. Now they could be buying low. That is not the first that happened. President clinton did the same thing. Bought oil from russia when they needed money.
Property law they passed in july. A very basic deal. Does not move the ball forward, but relieves some of the tension and maybe takes the threat of retaliation down a notch. This administration has been riven by divisions over trade policy between the hawks and the pragmatist. This may be one side the pragmatist try to get their case before donald trump. The story says he has not made a decision yet. David we have five people who should have knowledge of the subject. At the same time, there was a contradiction. We have seen this in this administration before. They do not always move as one. Michael you do not know who each person talk to so you do not know which side of the debate they are on. There is only one decider, and that is donald trump. He seems to go back and forth depending on what his gut tells him. This is certainly a possibility. What we are reporting is it is on the table, not that it necessarily happen. David s got perhaps informed by the polls, particularly in the midw
Maybe go up at the same time. Plus, is the Real Estate Broker system broken . Lawsuits, backlash, rule changes and both sides of the debate are saying this will really change real estate forever. Well explain the controversy and get answers, kelly, on the impact. Looking forward to that. First, lets get a check on the markets which have been fluctuating all day long. The dow is down 28 points despite the drop in bonds yields. Over 5 to a near 480 right now. The s p is hanging on to a 16point gain, and the nasdaq is driving the way with a. 9 increase. We also have a big deal in oil today. Chevron buying hess for 53 billion in stock. Both stocks are lower. Chevron by 3. 5 . Hess by about. 5 . This follows the big exxon pioneer deal recently. Okta getting crushed again today. Its down 20 in a week after hackers accessed its support system, losing 9 of that today. All right, lets get to that often rocky relationship between stocks and bonds. Since highs hit this summer, stocks have pulled