Look at the human cost of a conflict hospitals in the disputed region of me going to cut about filled with victims of the war between armenia and azerbaijan. So the World Health Organization has announced a record one day global jump in corona virus infections were talking nearly 339000 people diagnosed with covert 19 over the past 24 hours that means as we look at the Johns Hopkins university virus track of the total infections in red on the left is now up about up above 36000000 the number and white shows more than a 1000000 people who are known to have died there are though always worth pointing out more than 25000000 people who have recovered. Ill take you around europe with the pandemic is getting worse as winter approaches france 1st of all which is recorded more than 18000 new cases 2 days in a row now pressure is growing on hospitals particularly in and around paris germany which had been praised for its response to seeing 4000 new cases in the past day and the u. K. Is conside
Josh brown, i love your general thoughts and perspective on hitting this milestone. Im not sure many thought back in april we would be here today, maybe one day but not this soon. You and i talked about this a little bit yesterday. The number one thing the bears got round was not the macro, in fact, the bears talking about persistently high inflation and higher for longer Interest Rates, they got all of that right. The thing that was missed by the people telling you to get out of stocks or to prioritize money market funds over longterm investing, what they missed was the unbelievable earnings power at the 500 best companies in the world which comprise the s p names. And that continues. Were seeing some of the best Earnings Growth weve seen in years right now. There was no mean reversion in Profit Margins long prophecied. They laid people off when they were overstaffed. They raised prices on customers. We can complain about that, but thats what they did. When they couldnt do that, they
The highest calling of mankind i thought of as private equity. And then i started interviewing. I know how to do. Ive learned in doing my interviews how leaders make it to the top. I asked him how much he wanted, i said 250. I didnt negotiation, and no due diligence. How they stay there, you dont feel inadequate because only the second wealthiest man in the world; is that right . For many years the most successful Insurance Company in the world was aig and then the Great Recession came and aig required a 183 billion bailout. Talk about the new aig. So for those who werent familiar with property and casual insurers what do they do . We ensure businesses, small medium large commercial businesses for their property insurance or auto or Financial Lines which is directors and officers and we also have a business that does hopefully getting a good rate of return. So lets talk about the first part. In the first part of assessing risks is it harder today because inflags is so high to assess th
Charge power lunch starts right now well, it might be a new week but its the same old good news story for your stocks. Modest gains and enough earlier for all three major averages to make more new highs. The nasdaq, if it finishes up, will be up for a fifth straight session. Crude oil down 2 . Wow, bitcoin, it continues its record run its above 9500. Its inching closer to 10,000. Check this out it took just seven days for bitcoin to go from 8,000 to 9,000. Its up 900 this year were going to drill down more later in the show. Thank you very much welcome, everybody im Tyler Mathisen we begin with washingtons big week now its the senates turn senator rand paul today says he will vote for it five influential republican senators meet with the president right now. Eamon javers is outside of the white house. Reporter tyler, we believe that meeting is a lunch and we believe the lunch is going on right now at the white house take a look at the senators scheduled to be here for the lunch. Some k
Mitch mcconnell is negotiateing a plan to extend the debt ceiling and end the shutdown in exchange for a list of concessions yet to be determined. As for the thing that got the gop into this approval cratering mess to begin with, so far no repeal of obama care, no defunding of it either. President obama is meeting right now with Senate Republicans including, as we said, Mitch Mcconnell. The biggest slice of obama care that appears to be on the table is a repeal of 2. 3 tax on medical devices. Whether the gop will be able to extract more as payment for all their woes remains to be seen. As politico reports discussions have been described as free flowing. Joining me today Senior National correspondent with Bloomberg Business week josh green, editor and publisher of the nation and contributor of the Washington Post and Political Editor and White House Correspondent at the Huffington Post sam stein. Joining us from capitol hill democratic senator from pennsylvania bob casey who serves on t