Grows in the european union. Breonna taylors family says kentuckys legal system failed her and vows to keep protesting until the officers involved are charged. Lebron james and his teammates beat the den berg nuggets beat the denver underer just one game away from the finals. Welcome to the program. We begin the hour in egypt with reports that at least two protesters have been killed after thousands defied a Police Crackdown to protest the government for a sixth straight day. Dozens were arrested in raids ahead of the demonstration. That did not stop people exposing their anger over corruption, a deteriorating ,conomy, poor Living Conditions and the president. Despite the threat of arrest or even death, protesters took to the streets in several areas across the country on friday. Ragecalled it a friday of to demonstrate their opposition to the rule of the president and demand that he resign. Heard inike this were cairo. In the epicenter since protests militaryt sunday, personnel were d
Really germane this morning. I love how the french call it a move to the confinement confinement. In america, yesterday afternoon, there was a real understanding of confinement at the white house. Dr. Fauci worrying about origin, and also the Vice President of the United States worried as well. That was sobering on mothers day. Francine it certainly was. Lets get straight to first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Take a coPresident Trump ritika President Trump has a tough job this week, trying to convince americans it is safe to go back to work and socialize. At the same time, he is fighting a coronavirus scare that closed his own office. On friday, Vice President mike pences press secretary was diagnosed with the virus. Neel kashkari says americans should brace for more bad news on unemployment, and he says congress should provide more help. News emmaalled abc saying fiscal efforts will need to be put in place. And the plan for lifting the countrys lockdown. Expected to r
Shutdowns until at least may 15th we have a great lineup today. In just a few moments, well speak with Patrick Harker about what will take to get the economy back on its feet and later, Alexis Ohanian will join us hell talk about his investment in a company thats help iing Small Businesses navigate the loan process, which is one of the issues lets focus in on the stories we are watching in this final hour of trade wilfred of course covering the bank earnings. Morgan stanley the latest. Meg has new details on testing but well begin with breaking news out of washington where President Trump is expected to meet this hour Via Teleconference with governors. What are we expecting here that conerer sags is about to get underway where President Trump is going to share with the nations governors what the white house and its medical team have arrived at as far as the guidelines for reopening the economy. The Daily White House briefing is going to take place at 6 00 p. M. And what President Trump
The Vice President is the governments point person. Plus, is jack dorseys job on the line . An activist investor with a sizable stake in twitter is pushing for changes. First, some ominous news in the u. S. More deaths here stateside. Despite that, the market is going green. Cindy . Es it look like it in sydney. Paul it going pretty well. Markets reacting on promises of support from Central Banks. A strong rally, higher by 3. 5 . Futures pointing higher, better than 1 as well. Alsoi futures and kospi stronger. The yen has weakened. The boj will do what it can to support markets. The aussie dollar still has a 65 handle. It is reserve bank of australia decision day and the consensus now is that the rba is likely to cut the cash rate to half of 1 . Lets take a closer look at what happened here. Stocks surging. Ending up over 4 with investors hoping that Central Banks will be coming to the rescue. For more, we are joined by Abigail Doolittle in new york. What is driving the optimism . Abig
This fund in times of turbulence. We saw them withdrawing as markets calmed. Traders tell me this is usually a cash parking vehicle. Sarah i have been keeping an rates, or theven spread between nomination yields and those on similar maturity. Really all month long, we have seen them moving lower. 10year and 30 year, we have seen them fall the most this month than any other month this year. I spoke with the head of u. S. Ate strategy over a ups ubs. He said they are following along with the story and equities and oil, also saying it is setting a similar message as to the inverted yield curve. Lisa thank you so much. Andl with us, dances of the dan suzuki and luke kawa. I want to pick up on a notable theme. I wonder what your take is, that even though the Federal Reserve is expected to cut rates by 23 more times this year, it seems to be ineffective in getting the yield curve to steepen. What is the message . Dan i think the messages that things are slowing down. Theres a lot being made