The kospi back online after being shut yesterday. We know that president moon securing a big win, capitalizing on success and containing the pandemic. 100 taste 103 seats in parliament, ending a bull market yesterday. Ahead of the earnings later today, the first earnings since the pandemic started. So a gauge of how the Tech Industry is doing. Lets flip the page and take a look at currencies right now. The dollar index up, surging the most in weeks. Weaker today. A question of why that haven like the yen is currently down. On risk aversion and the plunge and ore prices adding to the conscience. Today, almostbers 6000 jobs created. Expectations were for a drop of 30,000. Parttime jobs pretty much responsible for the jobs added. One. Ooking at the rishaad data from the u. S. , retail sales and production numbers not for the faint hearted, cratering in march. Saying businesses are increasingly concerned about even weaker conditions ahead. Kathleen hays has been looking at wall all these f
David i dont consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . Let me ask you about salesforce. Com for those people who are not that familiar with it. There may be a few. You started the company in 1999 . Marc yes. David and today it has a market value of 130 billion . Marc yes. David if you bought the stock at the beginning, you would be up about 7000 . Marc 3500 . But whos counting . You are more on those things than i am. You are a much better investor. David i dont know about that. But ok. Marc we had a good shareholder return, but the thing is we have also had what we call a very good stakeholder return. We have also been able to give away 300 million. Weve done 4 million hours of volunteerism. David for those not knowledgeable about what salesforce. Coms Main Busines
[inaudible conversations] welcome to the Houston Museum of Natural Science i am the director of Adult Education here at the museum we have the honor this evening to host mr. Brown on his discussion his new book make think imagine also here at the museum if youre watching through cspan. This evening we have a wonderful presentation and then followed by a discussion with professor minnis cini from Washington University so now i will handed over to laura brown help me to welcome john brown houston. [applause] ladies and gentlemen. I want to thank the Houston Museum of Natural Science for inviting me to spend some time here this week on the board of several museums and galleries i have a deepo appreciation for the role of institutions like this play in the local community and in society more generally. Into a window of the past and the failure of the present and a guide to the future those resources that go above and beyond what we read in books houston is fortunate to have this place and
You are watching cnbc. Lets get right to the markets and look at how your money is setting up today. The dow would be implied just about flat that is a weakening there. Margining declines in the s p and nasdaq a bit of volatility returning to the market now up more than 20 since the march 23 low just more than two weeks ago at this point. Take a look at the bond market we are seeing a little bit of a bid on that side of things pushing things to that side. Just a hair below 25 basis points or. 25 and a little below. 75 or 75 basis points there. Lets go worldwide matt taylor is in singapore and Julianna Tatelbaum is watching the Early Morning trade of european forces. And well go to the opec plus meeting and Frank Holland is here with the coronavirus headlines. Matthew, well start with you. Thank you. We did see a firmer trading session. Before the final session are either closed on friday and monday for the easter break. Japan was the exception flat at the close. We had the nikkei down
Believe that he can strong arm trying to into these commitments as he has preemptively promised farmers a 3rd ag bailout package and as Global Markets sink friday on fears of corona outbreak spreading lets take a look at the Positive Side of this with more than 76000 confirmed cases worldwide only 2247 deaths have been reported as of friday the overall death rate from c. D. C. Study is about 2. 3 percent which is much higher than the death rate of the flu which is around point one percent in the u. S. But it is much less deadly than sawyers which had a mortality rate of 9. 6 percent china report says 7862 patients have made full recovery since the outbreak began and this number will continue to improve as researchers develop new Combination Therapies to treat the virus kristie its very important to know here that this is something you dont hear all the time you hear about how many cases we have how many deaths we have and i guess youre just to assume that the people who didnt die have.