What was earlier in the day in the labor market data. 5. 5 million is well above where we were pretty covid. Continuing claims still elevated above where they were a year ago , putting a dampener on the recent equity rallies we have been seeing in the dollar, part of a broader move across anancial markets to price in brighter economic prospect for 2021. Fromased interest republicans, raising a chance for a deal by the end of the year. Underneath it all, is the job weket losing steam and can wait for stimulus once again . Joe we will learn more about the job market tomorrow and talk about it more later in the show, but in the meantime maybe, maybe. The stimulus is going to happen. There seems to be some convergence among a handful of players around the deal, somewhere in the range of 900 billion, gop senators picking it up. Whats unclear is whether mcconnell was into it, the white house was into it. The Lindsey Graham thing today, he thought the white house would get there but that is a
Weve been in a 45 basis point range since yesterday, at 1. 90 now on the 10 year. In the final session, and some strength for the at 1. 3213 now. Its been a year of geopolitical volatility, and that is not changing on the final trading day. Lets turn to the turmoil in the middle east. Dozens of iraqi lsu men and supporters storming the u. S. Embassy complex in baghdad, venting their rage over deadly u. S. Airstrikes on a rainy and backed forces. On iranian backed forces. Joining us with more is kevin cirilli. It doesnt look like this is something that is going to go away very fast. What is the administrations response to the protests today . Kevin President Trump is at maralago and has been meeting with his National Security team, including secretary of state mike pompeo. President trump tweeting out that they are blaming iran for orchestrating that attack against the u. S. Embassy in iraq. Yesterday, i spoke with the Senior Advisor to secondary of state Mike Pompeo Brian hook, the u.
We will have those numbers. Lyftber andt went public. They turned 46 so far this year. The last time i saw these types of gains, 2009. When the index returned 60 . To break down what is driving this, it is mike reagan. What is feeling this massive rally . If you look at the main gainers in the tech index, it is mostly shift americas. You have amd more than doubled. Kla almost doubling. There has been a lot of talk on wall street about this rotation out of growth into value. I think that oversize what happened. Growth has not gone out of style. It was not a great year for growth. The stock market is all about the next big thing. What are the next big things people are talking about . 5g will be a big thing. A lot of chips needed for that. The internet of things is still in the early stages. Machine learning, artificial intelligence, there is a lot of optimism built around these innovations. Arena hascomputing still not completely matured. I think people are really looking forward to tha
Follow the process live on cspan, online or listen live on the free cspan radio app. The museum in washington, d. C. Is closing at the end of the month. They held the discussion this week examining the state of free speech in the u. S. We will hear from Chris Wallace, Eleanor Holmes norton and floyd abram. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the theater. I am chair and chief executive officer of the Freedom Forum. [applause] we welcome you all here tonight to celebrate the museum and the First Amendment and to look forward to a new chapter. I would like to recognize several of the partners whom we are all so pleased to have with us this morning. Leslie hill and dennis carol, brian and myra and robin stroud will. We are also honored to have several of our trustees and trustee a maritime in attendance. Jim abbott, shelby carthy, mike mike pohlman, phil curry, r david edelman, felix gutierrez, jack malcolm john lee, peter prichard, mike reagan, john, mark and barbara wall. [app
Pam donaldson. [applause] thank you, thank you. Ladies and gentlemen welcome to this mornings program. You know there are states that all of us have that are very personal and there are dates that we have as a country that we all share. In my lifetime december 7, 1941, november 22, 1963, 911. These are three terrible dates for the country and then theres november 9, 1989. Good news, the fall of the berlin wall. Its a subject that we are going to discuss today. How did it happen . What are the consequences . He did this . Who knew . For a look at whats in store for us this morning its a pleasure to welcome andrew card who served in three administration with Ronald Reagan as Deputy Assistant to the president and director of intergovernmental affairs. George Herbert Walker bush, the secretary of transportation and with george w. Bush he was the white house chief of staff. Andrew card. [applause] thank you very much, sam. I wanted to be here. We are grateful for Georgetown University and t