Is laid to rest. Dont stop until it matters that dignity, justice, and equity are a reality for all black lives. What mlks daughter had to say to his children. No crime. The fbi finds nascars Bubba Wallace was not the target of that noose hanging in his talladega garage stall finding it had been there for months. Wallace reacting overnight. Whether it was tied in 2019 or whatever, it was a noose. And this morning wallace is with us for an interview. Sound familiar . Complaints of illegal fireworks skyrocketing from coast to coast. It goes on all night. Why its happening and what cities are doing to crack down. All that plus play ball. The Major League Baseball season finally gets the green light. Training camps opening next week. The first game set for next month, and legions of thrilled fans are on deck. Today, wednesday, june 24th, 2020. This is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb live from studio 1a live in rockefeller plaza. And morning, everybody. Welcome to today on this we
Data and their stock sale this week but first, we are just getting the minutes from the last Federal Reserve meeting. It was a major one, consequential. Steve liesman digging through that release right now well give him some time to digest and dig, well hear from him in a minute. In the meantime, kelly, back to you. Tyler, thanks we are awaiting the headlines from the fed minutes stocks are in rally mode right now, as all 50 states have now eased lockdown restrictions in some way lets get over to bob pisani who has more on the markets for us bob . Im dying to hear more about what mr. Powell said in the fed minutes. Mr. Powell has been much more aggressive in talking about the need for more fiscal stimulus. Im sure that will come up in the minutes. Stay tuned for steve ive been talking about broadening in the markets. Were not far from the highs today, but what you want to see happening, the broadening, its happening again today. The banks are up, the transports are up were seeing moves
Timing, the pace, the safety of this economic reopening. Right i think that at this point, we know that the v is off the table. The struggle here is whether we have a ushaped recovery or whether we dont have a recovery and i keep coming back to there are two things that can happen you get a vaccine, and youll have a vee you dont get a vaccine and youll have an l and i think on days like today when you see the unemployed numbers, you say to yourself, without a vaccine, this is going to be a very, very long slog, just like what chairman powell said yesterday chairman powell is giving you the straight stuff and this number should not be a surprise to people who listened to him yesterday when you think about a vaccine this week, jim, we have heard promising comments from pfizer and j j today, the novartis ceo saying its likely a second half 2021 story. What do we believe i think its second half 2021 if at all. Its a very, very difficult virus. But you know, that may just mean when you look
Overnight, though they lost some ground this morning. A lot to watch, china pmi backing expansion, the fed launches a new dollar repo operation. Jim, sounds like youre focused on testing, having talked to abbott last night. Right i think that myles white and now the new ceo recognize this, as they did during the aids epidemic, when you find out who has it, everything changes in this country, we can find out who has it, and doing a serilogical test, finding out from blood of people who have had it maybe a lot more people have had it than we knew. Maybe we can find who has got it, they can be quarantined. Already the carpers people are saying its only going to be med techs and hospitals. Myles and robert told me absolutely, this will devolve into a pregnancy test at home. How quickly, i dont know. Abbott labs is one of them dr. Gottlieb is going you know what ive seen science this is working in forgave earl avor ofd guys megs work with alex gorsky made me feel maybe next year we can go t
You may have heard about by now. Under armour was accounting for problems. It says it is cooperating with the sec and doj. Tryker down 4. 2 acquisition, and it further consolidates medical device maker markets. Guy 403 is where we are on the stoxx 600. It has been an incredibly hard journey to get to this level. Stoxx 600 up over 1 today. Is ok. At least it is kind of on the average, confirming the move to the upside. The euro trading 1. 1148. Christine lagardes speak for the first time tonight as president of the ecb. Looking forward to hearing how many times she uses the word fiscal. South africa was not downgraded by moodys on friday. A negative watch, but it does bring that just a little bit closer. The market, a relief rally in the ram. Was me thinking it was because of the rugby guy. Just kidding. China signaled progress. Earlier, wilbur ross spoke exclusively to bloomberg about the prospects of that socalled phase one trade deal. Shape,ink we are in good we are making good progr