a lifeline for sears that may be too little, too late. and the wait is over for baby yoda fans everywhere it is friday, february 21, 2020. worldwide exchange begins right now. good morning. happy friday welcome to the show. here is how stock futures are setting up their friday today. you can see here, stock futures indicating 140-point drop for the average. s&p open down about 17 points. the nasdaq is off by about 75. this is after a wild ride that had the dowdown about 350 points you can see there in that time lapse, a huge volatile trade in yesterday s session. in the bond market, 10-year benchmark below the 1.5% mark. 1.48% there. two-year at 1.37%. treasuries a key focus as people buy up the safety of u.s. government bonds let s send it over to joumanna bercetche in london with an update of what is happening around the world good morning. the handover from wall street has been interesting we are seeing a little green here shanghai composite up. the tech sector sli
bleary eyed all day as the yankees/astros went into the wee hours of today early today starts right now and good morning i m dara brown. and i m phillip mena. it is a holiday on capitol hill, but there is no break for the house impeachment inquiry into president trump. a former aide on russia and europe is expected to testify before lawmakers today, and later this week, the u.s. ambassador to the european union is in the hot seat after initially refusing to comply with the subpoena. meanwhile, joe biden s son is also breaking his silence after coming under fire from the president. nbc s kelly o donnell has the latest reporter: after the president s repeated taunting whatever happened to hunter reporter: joe biden fighting back no one has asserted my son did a single thing wrong no one has asserted that i have done any wrong, except a lying president. reporter: and for the first time biden s son hunter is also speaking out through his attorney about hisnternati
i think it is needed for the current condition of the market. nejra: and burning the midnight oil. european leaders pull another all-nighter in the search for the next european commission president. we are live in brussels. manus: a warm welcome to daybreak: europe. oil is higher this morning, brent is up by 1.5%. there is word on the street below me about certainty, about a surety. those are the words from the secretary-general. the consensus is building. termsonths is offered in of an extension to the opec cuts. putined bin salman and agreed this before the delegates arrived. nejra, good morning. it is a gorgeous day. we will be chasing ministers, we will find out what a nine-month extension for the current cuts could do for the market with trump and xi talking to one another. nejra: absolutely, and that is the key link. good morning to you. because we got that agreement that could be rubberstamped at the opec plus meeting over the g20 weekend. it is interesting how imp
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lows and he shared a compilation of the barrage of threats of violence his office is receiving. we ll describe it as deeply disturbing, but worse than that. here s just a snippet of what they posted. . going to come protest in front of your house this weekend. we know who your family is and we re going to get you. the wrath of the lord god almighty come upon you, your health, your family, your home, your livelihood, and i pray if it be god s will that you suffer. you and liz cheney can both go to hell. we re going to get you. coming to your house, son. going to get you and liz cheney. going to get you two little [ bleep ]. [ laughter ] we re going to get you. so against the backdrop of a campaign by extremists to literally intimidate kinzinger, cheney and all of their fellow january 6th committee members into submission, house republicans are now plotting to do the ex-president s dirty work out in the open with what can only be described as a disinformation campaig