If you have been following the news in recent years i imagine that you like me have found it difficult to ignore the topic of refugees. This is an image of a jerefugee experience in communist vietnam in 1975, but in many ways it reminds us of images that we might see on the news today. Its hard to ignore the human stories of families perishing at icet, refugees suffocating in meat trucks. Theyre crowding onto leaking boats, theyre drowning the bodies of those unable to cross to safety are washing up. And refugees have been in the news for the past few years particularly related to the crisis in syria, but refugees are being up rooted by conflict all around the world. Were not just talking about refugees coming from syria but from other war torn regions. Especially in the past couple of years it has been very difficult to ignore the public response to refugees. And Refugee Resettlements like so many other topics today has become a polarizing topic. On one hand opposition has been fierce
And amazon facing new pressures over protecting warehouse workers still on the job servicing all of us amid the outbreak apple making a muchneeded donations to epicenter of this countrys outbreak this is thursday, april 2, 2020. You are watching cnbc. Good morning. Lets get right to the markets stock futures you can see are green indicating a rise of about 341 for the dow, s p up by 35 and the nasdaq is implied up around 100 points. It would be good but for the fact that we saw some steep losses yesterday to begin the Second Quarter all three major indices down nearly 4. 5 with losses accelerating before the closing bell take a look at the bond market we are seeing some move in today as well. A hair below 6. 1 . Twoyear below 0. 234 . Turning now to oil, a huge move higher a surge. Wti up 9 . Ice brent up 9 as well. This is after President Trump said he expected saudi and russia to enter agreement soon they called for a challenging issue for the oil markets. Getting to the markets worl
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
Washing up on mediterranean beaches. And refugees have been in the news for the past few years, particularly related to the crisis in syria, but refugees are being uprooted by conflict all around the world. So were not just talking about refugees coming from syria but from other wartorn regions. Especially in the past a couple of years, it has also been very difficult to ignore the public response to refugees. And Refugee Resettlement, like so many other topics today, has become a polarizing topic. On one hand, opposition to refugees has been fierce and even hostile. Politicians at the local, state, and federal level have linked refugees to terrorism and have pursued antirefugee policies in the name of National Security. The most famous of these measures is president Donald Trumps executive orders which ground the federal Refugee Program virtually to a halt in january 2017. His imposition of what is widely known as the refugee ban shortly after taking office initiated one of the sharpe
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