Evidently investors like what they think they will see. 2. 1 million jobless claims reported about a half hour ago. That means 40,740,000 have been thrown out of work in the last ten weeks. Big number. Yet the economy is contracting at an annual rate now of 5 . Thats a big number. And orders for big ticket items absolutely plunged. Okay. Got all of that. But the dow jones average up nearly 1100 points in the last two days, going up again at the opening bell. Were looking at a gain of over 200 points right now for the dow, and the nasdaq is going to be down, down 80 points. That tells me big techs having another difficult day. Then we have the opening up movement. Its rolling on. Vegas and disney have dates for its partial reopening, but theyve got the dates for reopening soon. Boeing, theyre going to restart, wait for it, max jet production. Were not back to normal but we are clearly well into the reopening phase. Now this. Watch out, social media. The president s going to sign an exec
Option at the moment for american citizens wanting to directly fly into or out of tel aviv. Actually, today former new york mayor Michael Bloomberg flew that route from new york into tel aviv, essentially to say that the faa had overreacted, and its safe to fly into the airport. In fact, thats a sentiment echoed by israeli authorities, really fuming mad at the United States accusing the United States of really playing into the hand of hamas. But again, for about another, what, 18, 19 hours or so, that prohibition against u. S. Carriers flying into or out of tel aviv will remain in effect. All right, tom. Listen, stay with us. We want to also talk to you about flight 17. Todays downings of two ukrainian planes is demonstrating two problems. It is hard to investigate a crash in an active war zone, and putin is not backing down. U. S. Intelligence Officials Say they have a solid case that it was russianmade surfacetoair missiles fired inside that rebelcontrolled area and that would be res
A man with a history of mental illness who admitted to constructing a bogus bomb and placing it outside the St. Paul City Hall/Ramsey County Courthouse in 2021 has been spared prison time. Dolores Christopher Alvarado, 32, pleaded guilty this month to felony threats of violence with intent to terrorize and was sentenced the same day to 23 months in prison, time that he already had served in .