New week, jim, with the focus once again on a resurgence of cases in certain parts of the country for the virus. Concerns about china, as well. And then the overall as we, of course, know, expectations regarding the economy and what the impact may or may not be as a result of what i just mentioned. Well, i think that its always surprising to me as someone who i think lived through it like you do that people in some of these states did realize the level of contagion. I mean, this is one when youre in the room with someone who has it, youre going to get it if you touch someone who has it, youre going to get it i dont know, did people feel they were immune i think there was a sense that maybe new york was isolated. I dont think this will be like new york because i think they learned how to treat people. So, i think the big scare of the hospitals being overloaded will only be perhaps some i mean, we had a war zone here in new york. I dont think that will happen there. The chinese situation
Talks. Stocks are set to open higher. New records still within reach netflix erasing its gains this year, amid increasing streaming competition. Jim spoke exclusively with the ceo of one major competitor, his name, bob iger the company, disney. Full details from their conversation coming up. And under pressure, federal prosecutors in california, reportedly opening a criminal probe of Vaping Company juul stocks are looking to resume their march toward record highs. Investor sentiment getting a lift after washington did confirm trade negotiations with china will resume in a couple of weeks. Meantime, the president will address the u. N. General assembly in the next hour. Well see how long he goes jim, as we get more news out of the uk Supreme Court, maybe lesser likelihood of a no deal brexit yeah, but i also there is another court over there, just talking about the this is eu court, european commission, gives a big win to starbucks in terms of charging starbucks, violating eu state aid
The misaligned lanes. Lets take a look at what they did. On the left hand side, we showed you all yesterday, which was the problem, and you can see the striping and how cars are going over. They had to do a big turn, and nobody could really maneuver that quickly or sharply, and stay in their lanes. So that was a danger and a hazard, and then on the right, you see how smooth it is now with the thick white line going almost absolutely straight, and trouble free. Commuters are able no navigate that easily this morning. Will tran is really the one who got the results yesterday, and saw the results this morning. Will feels pretty good to see it all fixed. Reporter it feels really good because obviously we dont want anybody getting into an accident. We complained about it for two hours straight, but it was exactly 24 hours ago that the lead architecture and i had him live on the kron4 news he said its in green with mark danon and the rest of us that it was too dangerous as you head into the
Good morning very warm welcome to Worldwide Exchange on cnbc. Im wilfred frost. Im seema mody. The handmatts tale and veep. Won. Well have a full roundup of last nights big winners coming up, especially including, i should say, a surprise guest indeed. Some very entertaining video clips as well as the headlines of who won what. First of all, lets check in on the Global Market picture this morning. Coming off the back of a decent week, very decent week we should say. The dow having its best week of the year up over 2 . S p and nasdaq up around 1. 5 . Taking a lead of some positivity around the world 57 points higher for the dow nasdaq up 10 points, s p up nearly 5 points. Another big story last week was the rise in yields just two weeks or so ago we were as low as 2. 05 on the ten year note back above 2. 2 now. That, of course, played into that broad gerris being on rally that we saw last week. Two big Central Bank Meetings this week, the fed and the bank of japan. Speaking of japan the
Kospi in south korea was up by 1 1 3 shanghai index ended slightly higher as well this morning in europe in some of the early trading weve already seen, again, the green arrows continue there, too the dax is up by over half a percentage point the cac in france up by 4 ftse is up by. 3 of a percent. Check out crude oil prices which were up sharply last week. We saw oil close above 50 for the first time in over a month a gain of 2. 50 over the course of the week. This morning down by 2 cents to 49. 87 currency, dollar was also stronger after coming under pressure in recent months but the dollar index was stronger. Dollar down against the euro at 119. 5. Up against the yen, 111. 29. Record night of emmy awards. Handmaids tale. Took home the top prize. The cast of veep took home the best comedy. Saturday night live came out on top it won nine awards hbo won the most awards of any network. Big little lies helped secure that record. Hbo held off netflix yet again winning 29 total emmys compa