Period, the nasdaq has more than doubled, up 115 in that time, carl, and it really tells you how important technology, and particularly those large caps, have become to this market and just how much they have surged this year as we see a Digital Transformation amid the pandemic. Thats a great point. And jon, were going to continue to look for names that are going to perform well, no matter what kind of reopening or reclosing environment were in amazon, one of the top leaders, but so is zoom on teleconferencing and in tuit on payments and those are the markets well be paying attention to. Tech investors have a lot to be thankful for this year in a tough year overall for the world. Lets talk more about the need em Portfolio Manager and chief investment strategist. Guys, good morning brian, where are we now with kind of rationalizing and strategizing around the tech trade, given how far so many of these trends have run . I think some of these trends existed before the pandemic and have be
Operations, including payroll and rent to coop the doors open. Expanded unemployment benefits. And training dollars for dislocationed works are included as well. We know that theres additional assistance for food banks and s. N. A. P. Benefits for the most vulnerable citizens and also additional funding for child nutrition programs to make sure that our children still receive meals while theyre not attending school. Rest assured that all of our state agencies are combing through the bill to make sure that we identify every bit of funding and assistance, flexibility, that we can take advantage of, but let me just say were very grateful to our congressional delegation for the work they did in helping to get this important bill passed. As i just mentioned were in the process of studying what the bill contains for louisiana but we know that louisiana is estimated to get 1. 8 billion in direct federal aid from the federal government. We have also been led to believe that the funding could b
So much for social distancing. You are watching cnbc. Good morning and welcome we are live and waking up to another day of potential losses for major averages stock futures now pointing to modest declines from a relative perspective. The dow jones opened down 244 points, nasdaq down implied 77 points that is much more than normal. This after the wall Street Market staged a rally yesterday for the dow. Major averages on pace for the third down week of the last four checking the treasury side of things, we are seeing movement for the bond and notes higher to. 227 10year at. 61 . Oil on a wild ride it had been lower Early Morning but ralied after news after a meeting on monday by Conference Call to discuss cuts President Trump meets with Top Energy Executives at the white house today. Full details on that summit at the white house coming up. Global Team Coverage dan murphy is in singapore Geoff Cutmore is in london, nbcs tracie potts with the latest out of washington and Frank Holland wit
Directive and information that we previously did not have and we would be happy to share that with the all. Before i get into my remarks, i would like to thank all of the folks who have been so helpful and supportive in staying home for nevada and doing Everything Possible to flatten the curve and protect as many people as we can, we appreciate your diligence in doing that. I asked them to continue what you are doing, and thank you for what you have done thus far. Have 2000 i do not know if the slides are going up . Are they on the screen . Individuals that have tested positive while 18,248 have tested negative. To date, nevada received 3000 reagents and 4000 test swabs. These numbers have not changed since we reported, i believe on monday. We appreciate whatever components we get from the federal government. At this time the reagent is not nearly the volume needed for the desired amount of testing we want to do and we are doing what we can to build our own kits moving forward. Expand
Im sumi so much going to thank you for joining us german chancellor Angela Merkel is in quarantine at home after a doctor who treated her was diagnosed with the corona virus michael self isolation comes as germanys leading Public Health institution the robert costa institute says it has detected the 1st signs that the rise in the corona virus might be leveling off in germany a chance america who is 65. 00 went into quarantine after being vaccinated against a different virus by a doctor who later tested positive michael Spokesman Says she will now be tested daily her last act before going into quarantine was to announce whipping restrictions on freedom of movement and social interaction. Its an unusual sight. Brandenburg gate deserted in the middle of the day. Its a similar picture elsewhere in the german capital as people start heeding the call to stay indoors areas normally bustling almost empty but experts say the decision by many to stay at home could be impacting the number of infe