Simonetti with the markets quite a day on the markets. Lauren doing fast math i think the swing is 830 points. Volatility is back. Nasdaq not quite positive for the year but close. Nasdaq choppy session, up 1. 1 in the end. The dow was down as many as 458 points, as near nearly three million americans filed for Unemployment Benefits to the two month total, 36 1 2 americans out of work. The market started popping when President Trump said a Covid Vaccine is likely by the end of the year. The dow up today for the first time in four days. The pharmaceutical industry however, more cautious when it comes to a vaccine. The novartis ceo says most likely well not have one until middle of next year. Sanofi amending the pretty convertal comments that the company u. S. Would receive the vaccine first. The company now says it would be available to all countries at the same time. Some pharmaceuticals were down today. Oil closing at near six week high. Look at that 27. 59. The banks surging really l
Pro forma session, we do expect Mitch Mcconnell to ask unanimous consent to pass the latest Coronavirus Relief measure. Reports are that ideal has been reached on nearly 500 billion for Small Businesses, hospitals and further covid19 testing. The House Majority leader says members are ready to return to the capital quickly to pass the measure. Likely by the end of the week. Take you cliff and after the senate floor on cspan2. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. The clerk will read a communication to the senate. The clerk washington, d. C, april 21, 2020. To the senate under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable daniel sullivan, a senator from the state of alaska, to perform the duties of the chair. Signed chuck grassley, president pro tempore. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President. The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell i ask consent to be recognized notwithstanding the order for a pro forma s
Unthermal nuclear war. It was a big deal at the time. And so now to go back and listen to what has happened to Nuclear Weapons from truman to trump is, is really, really remarkable. Our author grew up in the midwest in kansas, went to Oberlin College thinking he was going to be a lut major lit major, but watergate changed him to political science. And then he went on to graduate school at mit, and it was International Relations and Nuclear Strategy. Then he moved to washington as a defense policy adviser for the house of representatives. But, you know, government work being what it is, he decided that wasnt for him. So after a couple of years he left and wrote his really widelyacclaimed book the wizards of armageddon an inside history of Nuclear Strategy. He then spent time, he joined the boston globe because they were looking for experts in defense and that sort of thing and stayed with the boston globe for 20 years. He was bureau chief in moscow, bureau chief in new york city. By the
Responders, everybody out there, who is working so very hard on this emergency. And i want to, again, thank our health care workers. All across the state of louisiana. Whether theyre doctors and nurses, respiratory therapists, you name it. A lot of really, really good work by selfless people has taken place across the state of louisiana. Governor edwards and certainly particularly down in the new orleans region. Last night i requested a major disaster declaration for the state of louisiana from the federal government. So i directed that request to President Trump. In order that we might receive Additional Support for state and local agencies as we continue to combat the spread of the virus and deal with all of those individuals who actually have the disease, covid19. As we anticipated and as we stated and, quite sadly, the number of cases in louisiana continues to rise. More drastically than we would like. As of today, we have 1388 cases. And 46 deaths. That is 216 more cases than we r
Earlier today south dakota governor kristi noem held a briefing on her states response to the coronavirus. She reported south dakota has 30 confirmed cases. This is 25 minutes. Governor noem serve ready . I want to thank everybody for coming. In i spoke with the mayors earlier today, i want to thank all of them who are stepping up and being calm, using reasonable processes and data, science, to make their decisions. Theyre really working hard on behalf of their communities throughout the state to hand they will covid19 virus as it spreads. And we are so thankful for their leadership at this time. Our projections are that our numbers of infections will continue to go up. Please stay in contact and go to covid. Sd. Gov for all the information updated by noon each day. The good news today is we have two more people who have recovered, so our total is eight of our positive covid i. D. d individuals now have fully recovered. I was on a phone call yesterday with the Vice President of the Uni