View north koreas state t. V. Shows video of its leader after weeks of speculation about his health. And a weapon against a pandemic or a reason to fear feel pretty white technology being used to track cases is causing worries about the future. And its for the u. S. Womens soccer team is found to fight son and their battle to equal pay a judge has rejected the world cup winners claim that theyre being unfairly treated by their own federation. So there is facing criticism of the Police Detained hundreds of refugees and Migrant Workers in kuala lumpur the raids were carried out on homes across the capital on friday tensions have been high after some malaysians blamed foreigners for a surge in coronavirus cases last month and for being a burden on much needed resources but elsewhere that continues to be progress in the fight against the virus the United States has improved an experimental antiviral drug for emergency use on patients a major study has shown that the drug does appear shorte
Developments and Governor Andrew Cuomo has been mentioning these developments. Now worry on the food side though. We heard that tyson foods is indefinitely suspending operations at that largest pork plant in south dakota and worries now, forget about whether you get pork or beef. Whether, if and when you get it. We could be looking at sharply higher prices because right now it is in short supply. Connell mcshane on the latest developments. Hey, connell. Reporter neil, we have widespread agreement whether it is governments or companies, about the economic damage being caused by this pandemic in the country where there are differences though is on the approach to how to reopen economies. Now, you mentioned, some of it is businesses versus government. Business us will make the own decision. Tyson is example of that. Suspension of these operations you mentioned is an indefinite suspension. The basic thing here. A lot of workers, so many calling in sick at that plant that tyson felt they ju
Ideas. The Investment Committee is ready to go. The Halftime Report starts right now. It is did to hais good to hh us joe terranovterranova joins us lets kick it off with stocks. Record highs for the major averages, volatility, the lowest since the summer the question now does it clear the decks for a major move higher by the end of the year, josh brown, that question goes to you first hey, judge, how is it going how are you heres the big picture. Take the s p and the dow out of it look at the etf for atwx, global stocks without the United States in it, or look at the efa index, theyre both hanging at new highs. That is something that not a lot of people expected going into this year. There was a conversation about how the trade war would be damaging to europe and brexit would be damaging to britain what if i told you german stock market is up 25 year to date, japan is up 17 , the United Kingdom is up 28 . You wouldnt have expected those things to be happening that back drop is importa
Is 6 00 here in london. Lets get uptodate on greece. I will show you a chart. Some of the release we are already seeing what Alexis Tsipras and his team have put together. You see the jump in five weeks, on the sense of optimism just this morning around, and the last 24 hours, around the greek stories. The finance minister of the netherlands had a role of the eurogroup. He is reporting in a dutch publication that he is asked the ecb and the imf to assess the greek aid request, which would be the next step after that request has been submitted by Alexis Tsipras. The other thing on the agenda is the Greek Parliament has to look at the proposal. Lets backtrack and show you what is happening the markets. In yesterdays session, before we saw this proposal submitted by the government guy lets come to you first. Is Alexis Tsipras caving . And giving the stresses and the capital controls in place perhaps knows a prize . Guy that is the obvious reasoning,. It was rejected by the greek people on
Fisher sounded more cautious on tuesday. More voices being added to the flurry. Yields continue to rise today. We have seen the biggest selloff since june in terms of treasury. Alix the yield rally some most since november. Ofaking of the diversion years, Charlie Evans speaking, saying we do not need to hike rates. Eric rosengren saying we can normalize rates. We are nearing our mandates. Federal confusion. Caroline that is going to be our phrase today. Coming up, we will speak about the direction of yields with matthew. Managinggan stanleys director and strategic. He says by the fiveyear the fiveyearbuy treasuries, despite losses. Alix a lot on hold heading into jobs friday. If any action, it will be in the currency market. The dollar is mushy across the board. The pound is higher, moving against the dollar. The yen moving lower. The yen is looking at its first monthly decline versus the dollar since may. Is relative mushiness across the board. Banks doing well in europe. Into the job