A show of solidarity and american resolve, honoring all who are keeping this nation if moving forward through the Global Pandemic on the front lines of the battle in our health care and hospitals and clinics. Todays mission the first of several across the country planned for the next few weeks. Our thanks to the air force, the navy acrobatic teams and all they honored today, all the Great Health Care workers battling against this pandemic. President trump and his administration preparing for parts of the country to get back to work as soon as its safe to open for business. President trump today in the white house east room touted some of the success of the Small Business administrations paycheck protection program. That program, after having its funds replenished by congress, approving nearly half a million new forgivable loans worth 52 billion just since yesterday morning. President trump added the program has saved 30 million jobs and will help this countrys economy quickly, quickly
Pandemic. Later, National Indian Health Board Chair on the affecting native American Communities. Morning, its thursday, april 9, 2020. Against the backdrop of another deadly day, turmoil across the country, political leaders in washington are headed for a showdown over hundreds of liens of dollars in new aid for Small Businesses. With the senate set to move forward with funding today we begin our program by hearing from Small Business owners and their employees. Let us know how your Small Business has been impacted by coronavirus. Small Business Owners, 202 7488000 is your number. Small business employees, 202 7488001. You can send us a text this morning, that number is 202 7488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from. Otherwise, catch up with us on social media, twitter or facebook. Good thursday morning to you, we are hearing from the 60 million americans that work at Small Businesses in this country and the more than 30 some businesses around the country. You
Can see the steadier rain tapers as we head through the midmorning and right behind me the showers and the thunderstorms. You can see the more yellows and oranges and reds in this that will come in this afternoon and bring us the chance of grapel and hail and keep the snow level around 28 to 3,000 feet. The earliest commuters coming down 680. Soggy start today with showers and thunderstorms and mountain snow all the way through 7 00. Mike, thank you. Kaiser perman,anteanteanteae driving sites and those who meet the criteria for testing and have a doctors order to be tested. Because these are not open to the public, the locations havent been publicly released. Sonoma county released its second case of community spread. That person was asked to to to t selfquarantine. All campuses starting with online classes with the exception of labs and studio classes. More than 20 School Districts are closing starting today. San francisco unified School Distri district, oakland unified School Distric
Courscourse jim cramer right now the stock market and the bond market are like two heavy weight champions duking it out. And todays stocks had a very good round dow surging 1,173 points, the s p 500 skyrocketing, the nasdaq soaring 3. 85 . Hallelujah. Who are these two boxers . In one corner you had a stock market that had gotten viciously oversold thanks to the coronavirus outbreak and wall streets existential fear of a Bernie Sanders presidency. In the other corner, well, youve got the bond market specifically u. S. Treasuries every time they go up in price, we go down in yield. Lately their yields have been plummeting sending chill through the spine of all investors who follow both markets. Now this is a vicious and i will tell you somewhat scary for us, but bond yields so frightening low theyve been decking the much smaller stock market, as surely as muhammad ali sent so many challengers to the canvas the bond markets still screaming that were not out of the woods, that were being
That, 10 00 eastern, nancy pelosi will try to upstage the president. He will hold a News Conference to announce who will manage the impeachment drive when the senate trial begins next week. There is some gamesmanship involved, the speakers announcement is time to upstage the big event of the day, the trade deal signing. Nancy pelosi wants to keep the focus on the president s troubles, not the president s triumph. The market opens half an hour from now, no fireworks expected, the Earnings Report from big banks largely solid, no big surprises. The dow is going to be down 70. The s p seven, nasdaq down maybe 11. The stock price of target premarket way down. Disappointing holiday sales, stock is down seven but please remember target stock is up 94 last year, almost doubled so even a minor slip is enough to pull it down and that is what we are seeing now. He will be a rock n roll liveaction show and wait until you hear what the democrats said at the debate and what the president said. We ha