Winning streak falling by 300 points yesterday take a look at whats happening. Yesterdays session, the dow was down s p dipped back in for the year inching its way in the day before the nasdaq did power to a new record close and briefly broke above 10,000 for the first time. Lifted by amazon, apple, facebook and microsoft which all closed at record highs adding about 5 trillion. About the amount well spend in federal spending this year also take a look at whats been happening with u. S. Equity this hour both the dow and s p are under a little pressure. Dow indicated down by about 60 points s p down by 3. The nasdaq, even after all these gains is indicated up by about 17 points this morning taking a look at whats happening in the treasury market the 10year seems to be yielding 0. 797 crude oil prices are in the red. Crude oil prices, talking about the recovery theyve made. Talking about wti. Down about 2. 3 . What an improvement or a gain in crude oil prices now above 38 thank you it is
Where Live Streaming on facebook on youtube, twitter and you can catch us on axios. Com. You can join us and join us with our handle at axios. As a woman is seen in the streets and cities and in states across our country over the past 11 days theres an underlying problem that is yet to be fully addressed and with adequate reform and justice. So today we bring you four speakers, two with the National Perspective and two with a local perspective to begin to have a conversation about whats next and where we go from here. Let me just tell you that we have coming up today. We have derrick johnson, ceo of the naacp. We have Melvin Carter, mayor of st. Paul, minnesota. We have lovely warren, shes a rochester, new york,k, and web congressman bobby rush of illinois. So first i i want to start with our first guest, is president and ceo of a the naacp, derrick johnson. Welcome. Hes joining us live from jackson, mississippi. Thank you for havingroon me. Thank you so much. The first question i want
City gay bar and ensuing riot, the u. S. Commission on civil rights hosted a discussion titled stonewall at 50, the movement for lgbt civil rights. This is an hour. Well now turn to our next iteration of the commission speaker series. This is titled stonewall at 50, the movement for lgbt civil rights. I thank the commissioner for suggesting this months speaker topic. June, as we know, has come to be known as pride month, and the reason for that stretches back now 50 years. On june 28th, 1969, street demonstrations for lesbian and gay civil rights began at the Stonewall Inn, in greenwich village, in new york city. Many view these demonstrations as a critical moment in the movement for lgbt civil rights. In june 2016, in recognition of that history, president barack obama proclaimed a site near the former Stonewall Inn a national monument. Today, well hear more about the momentous events at stonewall and how they served as a catalyst for the lgbt Civil Rights Movement. As evidenced by th
Tom joining us now, tom all of these businesses they will be opening up with a number of modifications. Many many modifications, and if any phase applies to the reopening of napas dinan restaurants, its this. Easy does it. He will follow the rules no matter how strict. I ask that you have a facemask on while you walk around my business. Take your facemask off and enjoy yourself. We are asking that they put Hand Sanitizer on the hands, as soon as they have entered the building, and then we have paper menus that are disposable, we have condiments that are single use condiments. If they are open right now, im going right now. Hopefully people coming in will increase the sales and people will enjoy themselves. The safety of our employees and community, being the first one out of the gate, we have to be more cautious than everyone else to make sure we get this right. Remake able to dine responsible. For our purveyors, we really want to make sure that when we open we dont have to close again
Research finds very different experiences of black and white americans when it comes to the economy and the shutdown and the coronavirus. And these different attitudes come from very, very different experiences. Looking at views on the current state of the economy, you can see that 28 nationally see the economy as excellent or good right now. Thats the same number as you have for white americans black americans 5 view the economy right now as excellent or good. Thats reflected in some of the Economic Data weve seen that shows that africanamericans have been hit harder by the shutdown similar attitudes by differences about the outlook. 38 of americans nationwide are confident or somewhat confident in the future. Black americans, 16 are confident or somewhat confident in the future. Perhaps reflecting the differing economic experiences right now a lot of this comes from different experiences with the coronavirus itself 92 of africanamericans are concerned or very concerned about the coro