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Walk us through the day. Romaine two things. First, it started with all eyes on washington, waiting to get that almost 2 trillion stimulus package. Summoning some encouraging some some encouraging signals from leaders that this was being worked out. Then we could potentially get a vote today in the senate. Then, it would go to the house. We had the president about effectively reopening the economy by easterday in the u. S. , less than three weeks away. A lot of people took that as an encouraging sign that Economic Activity would at least start to normalize. We saw the s p rally big time. The d...

Points you were talking about down about 1. 8 for the dow and s p, down 2 for the nasdaq s p indicated up by 7 points this morning nasdaq indicated up by 30 points overnight in asia, some weakness in stocks there, too probably started by what happened here. The nikkei actually ended flat the hang seng was off by three quarters of a percent. The shanghai was down 0. 8 in europe, where there is active trading taking place at this hour, you will see there are green arrows across the board. The biggest gainer of the three major averages is the cac up three quarters of a spent. More modest advances...

Percentage point dax is slightly weaker, relatively flat as is the cac. Crude oil prices, crude Oil Yesterday was flat ended up by two cents this morning another 44 cents 55. 35 so wti above 50 a barrel. Back to the markets in a moment first the latest developments on Hurricane Maria. The hurricane making landfall on the island of dominica as a category 5 storm it is now weakened slightly within the past few hours to a category 4 thats the good news forecasters warn that maria could reach strength as it nears the Virgin Islands, puerto rico also in marias cross hairs. You know, when these hurr...

Tell us volatility is back, but were not seeing it. This morning the vix is trading at 10. It marked the second time this year that the vix traded below 10. Overnight in asia, take a look and youll see the nikkei was up by 0. 7 . Hang seng was up by a third of a percent. The shanghai was down by a third of a percentage point. In europe, some of the early trading, things are relatively calm. Ftse up by a half percentage point. Modest gains for the cac and dax. Among the top stories, big news out of hollywood. The Writers Guild of america reaching a tentative agreement with the alliance of Motio...

In this bizarre story, the strangest thing of all was the truth. He planned for any scenario, except for the one that happened to him. Im lester holt, and this is dateline. Heres keith morrison. There are people on this glorious sunkissed planet of ours who get up each morning to the miracle of being alive and worry. Not that there arent things to worry about, of course. Whether we can do anything about them or not. But some people worry a great deal indeed and do try to be prepared for whatever. And one of those prepared people was a brilliant retired university professor, named Kay Mortensen...