Mrs. Murray thank you, mr. President. Mr. President , it has been 17 mr. President , it has been 17 mr. President it has been 17 days since Minneapolis Police murdered george floyd, 90 days since police in louisville kentucky killedur brown a tailor who would have turned 27 just days ago and 109 days since ahmad arbery was killed by armed white residents in south georgia. These are just some of the most recent examples of the senseless repeated killings of black people in our communities including by m police in that he led to massive outpourings of anger and grief that we have seen on display across the country. The protests are not only about the unjust tragedies, they are also about sandra bland, mike round, i. T. Auntie anna jefferson, walter scott, orlando costello, i anna stanley jones, tamir rice, as well as manny ellis, and shea taylor from my home state of washington. The countless people, black people and people of color the vast majority whose names we dont know whose lives
Maintenance of National Parks and other federal land open to the public. Senators are now working on amendments to the bill. No votes are scheduled yet, but work is expect today continue to next week. Now to live coverage of the u. S. Senate here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. 1mighty god, thank you for your great and precious promises. You have promised to keep a record of our pain. You have promised that no weapon formed against us will prosper. You have promised to supply our needs and to surround us with the shield of your blessings. You have promised to keep us from stumbling or slipping. Lord, you have promised that nothing can separate us from your love. You have promised to do for us more than we can ask or imagine. Great and precious are your promises. Give our lawmakers confidence in your promises, as they face these tumultuous times. Sustain them with your
Saying it will reopen 100 stores in the u. S. This week and progress on the vaccine front with heavy hitters stepping in which well have much more on. We will and not just are we excited about the new package there, the music is exciting i had seen the graphic, but i add not heard this music they should just playing through the whole hour to keep people on their toes very dynamic and thanks to the team for making it work. 59 minutes left of the show and big guests to come a huge exclusive with the ceo of merck. Ken frazier. Hell join us as they lay out their strategy to battle the coronavirus. Plus, mt. Sinai teaming one a slew of companies to support front line workers well speak with the ceo and ceo of pinterest. Mike is drilling down on the action meg is tracking progress on the vaccine front and wilfred has new comments from jamie dimon, but mike, first to you on this Broader Market and take ussen inside what are you seeing . Yes, obviously have broken above these levels everybody
Europes closed. Apple didnt give a forecast and this white house commentary. I would start with the white house commentary the apple stock, even after you knew that there was no guidance, was up rather dramatically when we got word that the United States was going to retaliate against china, that was it it gave up the ghost and accelerated the decline in amazon we did have the greatest month since 1987 so that january month was augmented by tremendous japanese buying in 87. It was artificial. This was a solid rally off the bottom its time to consolidate theres no we have to get used to consolidation meaning a 400point dow instead of a 100point dow. We went down 34 in 25 sessions, up 35 in 27 sessions what does consolidation mean now . It has to do with the idea that we give up some of this last gain. The last gain was a short squeeze in airlines, in travel, leisure. We started believing in marriott up 10. Then yesterday we had a really strange day where the most important thing that ha
Gilead sciences, as you heard from maria, positive news from a government trial of their remdesivir and also from two of their own trials. Positive news on a treatment. That sent futures straight up earlier this morning and look at the stock, also straight up, 6. 8 . Thats the effect of this effective trial of remdesivir. Up go futures, up goes gilead stock. More on this in a moment. A second reason for the dows gains, investors expect a strong recovery for the economy starting in the summer. The market always looks to future conditions. Theres a third reason. The Federal Reserve is likely to say today they will do whatever it takes to stabilize your money. Wall streets expecting more stimulus. The dow will be up close to 550 points at the opening bell, close to 2 . The s p up 2 . The nasdaq solid indeed, up over 2 . We had boeings numbers out this morning. Continuing problems, but its cutting 10 of its work force and investors like that. The stock is up nearly 6 . Okay. More on all th