And lockdown and new details to halt the ipo by the ant group and what stocks are seeing big time buying by their insiders well bring them to you, one big biotech you need to hear about it is friday the 13th, but nothing to be afraid of. This is Worldwide Exchange right here on cnbc i dont care if monday is blue, tuesday is great and wednesday too, thursday i dont care about happy friday and welcome from wherever in the world you may be watching. Im broo im Brian Sullivan thanks for joining us. Here is how your money and markets look right now stock futures are once again in the green across the board dow futures up 224, nasdaq up 105. The indexes did fall a bit yesterday, but all on pace for a very solid week and month. The russell 2000 up a stunning 11 . So far november, you dow up 10 and even the nasdaq that has been hit a bit hard is actually up 7 this month coming into this morning the real star though continues to be bitcoin. It is above 16,000 now and up as much as 20 just in th
Covid19 and other biological threats facing the u. S. Good morning. Welcome to the hearing [inaudible] emerging threats and capabilities. In a moment in accordance with house rules and relations the host will mute all participants other than german [inaudible] and all participants are asked to keep themselves muted when not actively engaging in the discussion which should help limit echoes and other asruptions. When the yield back i do not renumber to retweet themselves others will doo so to limitit efforts and background audio background audio. Members and witnesses are responsible for unwitting himself anytime they wish to w e heard. It may take a few seconds for your microphone to be t unmated. If you are on the computer you can view the timer by reaching your personal view in the upper right corner of your screen for the active speaker and you can also pin the timer by right clicking or hovering your cursor over the timer and pressing that contact icon. With that, we are ready to b
Additional funding for the post office to other elements of support that might potentially encourage mcconnell to call the senate back as well. But that will be a bridge we will find out more about later yeah, will they have a relief bill as people look to get relief and extension that they have been waiting for for, you know, several weeks now since it last expired. Over to you, john. Interesting what the president was just saying. Drawing a distinction between universal mail in ballots, which he opposes, and absentee ballots which he has cast himself and is in favor of saying he does not favor slowing down the mail. He wants to speed up the mail, of course. The house wants to question a lot of that and well see if that happens thank you, it is 8 00 a. M. At apple headquarters in coopertino, california, its 11 00 a. M. On wall street and squawk alley is live good morning, what a week it is, can you believe were starting this monday at levels for the markets that we were prepandemic. T
Taking time to be here we are so delighted to have professor Margaret Mcmillon with us today. It really is a delight. Thank you so much for traveling to be with us on this important conversation and who will help us with that is better equipped than Margaret Mcmillon, americas Professor International history at oxford, professor of history at the university of toronto, she serves in a many and varied roles. Trustee of the Central European university and more recently, at the Imperial War Museum. We are second only here at the National World War One Museum and memorial to the Imperial War Museum in terms of history. They began collecting a 1917 and we began collecting in 1920. We are further delighted that they are having their world war ii gatherings reinstalled by the gallery designs over the World War One Museum so they are very wise, i might say. Margarets research specializes in British Imperial history and the International History of the 19th and 20th centuries and she is written
5 pm here in moscow having a good day what if you are in the wild thanks to choosing a National Lots of stories for you this hour starting with this one donald trump chose to spend his thanksgiving paying his fost of a visit to afghanistan and greasing american troops based on he had a message for them revealing talks with the taliban are back on despite being declared dead just 2 months ago my colleague daniel holkins discussed this with me. They call it a surprise visit but the motives behind it are rather clear since day one day one of his presidency mr trump wanted to and the war in afghanistan the bloody almost 2 decades long conflict that took so Many American lives and so Many American dollars trump wanted to end it for his own for steve at home and for his global influence in that region and internationally of course and hes been given this promises so many times that thanksgiving feels that short reason to afghanistan was all about that to demonstrate hes in charge and he is t