Investors seem to be more optimistic as Congress Continues to work on another federal relief bill. The president at the bottom of the hour scheduled to deliver another news briefing. This as tensions between the u. S. And china continue to escalate. The u. S. Has ordered that the chinese consulate in houston, texas to close china to close. China is calling for the u. S. To revoke the decision and is warning that the u. S. Has more diplomatic personnel in china than vice versa. Joining us to break down the market avenue big the Market Action are Abigail Doolittle who has following who has been following the action. Abigail tesla delivered. Considering you have the stock of more than 280 on the year going into that report. Before we look at that stock specifically, it has been another interesting, slightly choppy day. More sleepy at the end of the day. We saw this late day surge climbing. Not huge gains. We had stocks of flat. Nasdaq down at the end of the day. This s p 500 higher. This
About how her organization is approaching testing, treatments and vaccines and which countries she says are doing the best right now handling the pandemic. Plus, the interim president of new yorks mta joins us to discuss a path forward for pass transit and whether people will ever feel comfortable riding in a crowded subway car again the biggest subway system in the country. Lets focus on the big stories were watching kayla has the latest on a new 3 trillion relief bill proposal. Mike diving into the Federal Reserves Corporate Bond Purchase Plan which kicked off today. Kayla, lets start with you and washington relief. We are waiting to hear from House Speaker nancy pelosi to discus what they are calling the heroes act this second wave of multitrillion dollar stimulus that now democrats say is needed to jumpstart the american economy. Pelosi has urged her conference to think big, even as many fiscally minded democrats have raised concerns b about the price tag. In this 3 trillion packag
And oil down 6 to 2860 and change oil now on pace for its worst month ever and here is a stat that really sets the tone for how things have been and it comes from our friend ryan detrick at lpl financial. It markets the serventh straight session that was up or down and this breaks the previous record of six such volatile sessions set all of the way back of november 1929, a true sign of the times. All of the markets rising today. It is clear that we are in unprecedented times for the markets and the economy, but we are here for you here on cnbc with the folks working tirelessly around the clock. Bob is downtown and steve has more on the Federal Reserves move and most of the action came from inside the beltway. Lets get to Kayla Tausche with what was live with the white house response. An unprecedented stimulus package the white house is proposing, 1. 3 trillion in relief for businesses and workers whose revenues and wages are grinding to a halt the treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin putt
Investments in three sectors, semiconductors, quantum computing and Artificial Intelligence the order will prohibit investments in some forms of those technologies and require americans to disclose investments to u. S. Governments in some cases. And you know the one thats not necessarily going to be included which tiktok. Thats your thing. Its not been my thing. Its been the National Security thing. Right. For so long. But no action taken yet bipartisan cause, problem. It should be. Im not sure it should be. Its surprising given all this effort in this regard and why, for example, under the ai rubric, for example, it wouldnt be included. Think of all the data the Chinese Government has access to. And thats what people say. It has all how many lazy girl videos Andrew Ross Sorkin watches per day. I have yet to be convinced by the way the Chinese Government is seeing all this tiktok in terms of the way theyre trying to build this thing in a separate way but thats a separate story. The con
Everyone in this room is so incredibly efficient. [applause] very excited to be here these past the first test. I am 2024 president of the american society. I want to thank our distinguished guests for joining us today. We have rick larson Ranking Member of the house transportation and infrastructure. I am very excited to continue to Work Together historic Infrastructure Investments Congress Passed and they are working to ensure implementation make sure of the success. We published yesterday in the Infrastructure Investment need to act on federal investment will protect the industries from losing more than 1 trillion in economic output and help avoid more than 600 billing dollars and gives American Families an additional 550 billion in disposable income. I could use that, i dont know about you guys. 237,000 american jobs for the same. The right path for improving Critical Infrastructure network but our work is not done. We regard to keep this economic ecosystem an attractive investment