That 10,000 mark and close there. The market picture is mixed, of course, as george floyd is laid to rest in houston. You are looking live inside the fountain of praise church as the Memorial Service continues. The death of the africanamerican man in Police Custody just over three weeks ago was the spark for protests on racial inequality and police brutality. Major corporations, you have seen this, we have told you about it, rushing to pledge support for the cause. Randall pinkette is not only the winner of season four of the apprentice but he founded and runs a company that actually leads corporations in a whole bunch of Government Agencies to overcome the racial divide. Hes here and he will tell you which companies are doing it right and what else has to be done to achieve true equality in the workplace. Forget carmageddon. Vroom is shooting straight up after its ipo today, up triple digit percentages. Wait until you see that. The ceo of the online used car dealership is here on whet
Every direction. The s p saw an even bigger gain. The nasdaq up by almost 3. 6 the dow futures also up. Keeping an eye on the Treasury Department seeing how the fed news will play out there the fed news is back about 0. 6 . Sitting at 0. 612 . If you watch oil prices, which has been a big indicator of demand around the globe and what is happening, this morning, wti is up about 16 . All the way back up to 17. 49. Wow, all the way back up. 17 unbelievable lets get an update on the pandemic the number of global cases that we talk about nearing 3. 2 million. I dont know how good that enough is for anything we have more than a million in the United States. New york state cases near 300,000. I dont know of the reliability that state prisons near 7 testing positive breaking overnight, california governor plans to order all beaches and state parks to close tomorrow to avoid repeating last weekends violations hot weather, the police memo leaked to several Media Outlets yesterday. Andrew to put
Shanghai was off by 1. 25 . If you look at whats been happening with some early trading, green arrows for the most part. But youre looking at fractional advances the dax is up, just barely cac up by a quarter percent, so is the ftse. Look at crude oil. Up by 1. 1 yesterday settling just below 58 a barrel that was the highest level in almost 32 weeks. Today were at 58. 36 that was the 67th or 68th new high yesterday of the year yeah. Could be another one tomorrow. Andrew is finally coming to the train. Youre getting on the train left the station. Were on the bitcoin train now that train maybe left a long time ago where is the train that left newark he said sao paolo. They offloaded it on to a boat, crossed the water heading to the south pole you did cop to that yesterday. Im i wish i didnt have to but i do. Calling the trump trade and Everything Else i do. A number of big stories to tell you about. We are continuing to follow a developing story out of Southern California crews are despe
Weakness. That is keeping the regional benchmark mostly flat. Volumes are quite flat, especially here in hong kong. The exception is south korea. Fx markets u. S. Dollar continuing where it left off. Eurocom a two or three month bureau, euro, a two or three month low. Gold, a massive plunge midmorning that took gold to the secondmost oversold levels on record. Rishaad we are taking a look at what sparked this. Shery it was quite something and it was basically data out of the u. S. Higher dollar, lets need for gold less need for gold. You can see around 8 30 p. M. Hong kong time on friday, we saw gold plunged. It pushed gold over the edge and today, it fell more than 4 . Gold speculators, the least bullish on record. Money managers are holding the smallest net bullish bets on gold since u. S. Government data begun in 2006. They are not just dumping gold but also dumping silver, platinum, palladium. If you look at Exchange Traded products they lost about 2. 1 billion. Rishaad we are a co
What is making headlines outside the business world. Taylor david, the first charges may be announced today in that investigation of russian involvement in last years u. S. Election. According to multiple reports, the grand jury associated with special Counsel Robert Mueller as approved the first indictments. President trump called the investigation a witchhunt that is bad for the country. Puerto rico plans to cancel a controversial 300 Million Contract to rebuild the islands power grid after it was devastated by the hurricane. The contract went to a tiny Company Based in whitefish, montana, the hometown of interior secretary ryan zinke. Whitefish energy had two employees before winning the nobid contracts. President of the catalan republic failed to show after being fired by the Spanish Government over the declaration of independence in the region. News 24 hours per day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Im taylor riggs. Jonathan thank you v