I need gowns and i need face shields and i needed them a week ago. The latest on the supply lines just ahead out of work. New jobs report released this morning. The labor market in free fall. The governments unprecedented rescue plan to help Small Businesses set to launch today why some banks are saying not so Fast Breaking overnight back home, cruise ships stranded at sea for weeks allowed to dock in florida sick passengers rushed to the hospital, others cleared to head home were in the living room, it feels fantastic. Sharing their ordeal with us. Those stories. Plus stand and applaud the powerful tribute to firefighters leading the fight as heroes honor heroes announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today the coronavirus pandemic with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hi, everybody, good morning. Welcome to today. Doesnt friday sound good . Hoda, good morning, im working from home once again youre holding down the fort in studio 1a an
Booktv continues now on cspan2, television for serious readers. Good evening everyone. Tonight we are here with peter finn the National Security editor at the Washington Post and previously coauthor of the book the zhivago affair which was finalist for the National Book six circle award for nonfiction. Hes twice been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for his International Reporting and hes won the Robert F Kennedy Journalism Award and the German Marshall Fund Peter R White prize for his foreign reporting. In other words, his nonfiction credentials are very wellestablished. Tonight he is here to present his latest book of nonfiction i guess to the right the story of american heiress gertrude with deborahs dramatic captivity and escape from nazi germany. Please help me welcome peter finn. [applause] thank you everyone for coming out and thank you to a books for inviting me. Im delighted to be here. As she mentioned, my book is about gertrude lesandro and the First American woman in unifor
Today. Our road map begins with Global Growth concerns. China posting the weakest gdp in 27 years aed my fallout from the trade war. Well wrap up the first week of earnings season, two names in focus, coke and American Express, both rallyi ining aheaf the bell. Rick perry set to leave trumps cabinet. He will join us live this hour going to start with that slowdown, china saying the economy grew 6 in q3 from a year ago, believed to be chinas slowest gain in nearly three decades. Markets here largely shrugging it off Industrial Production was up from the prior five to 58. Retail sales up from 75 back to 78 so kind of mixed. This one we can say, look, there is something for everybody. Fed can still cut. But im doing a lot of work on American Express this morning. Consumer is still strong consumer strong, business, corporate spend, as barry said, still a lot of negativity among ceos, extends to the election, negativity extends to china, european woes. Go back to the ibm call, we didnt talk
October and joining us now with more details is r. T. Correspondents our month. So welcome to the show so when these meetings today basically who was at the table and did they get anywhere let me start by saying that the meetings are already affecting the market let me show you what the dow did it sunk basically it really took a steep turn this was an unexpected twist of events Chinese Agriculture officials were scheduled technically to visit u. S. Farm states next week including montana but officials cancer just canceled canceled the trip to montana theyre going to return to china sooner than originally planned u. S. Secretary of agriculture sonny perdue confirmed that these meetings were to provide some or to at least have china build good well with the u. S. Farmers talks began on thursday and they were led by there were 30 chinese. Officials who came to washington d. C. Led by the feisty bice finance minister early on when he met with u. S. Deputy u. S. T. R. Jeffrey garish they we
Leaves our global report today as a modi administrations finance minister announces an 8 percent cut in the base Corporate Tax rate the centex stock markets surge and closed up by more than 5 percent after minister some around the im now 20000000000. 00 policy package indias base Corporate Tax rate was cut 30 percent to 22. 00 companies that do not seek Tax Exemptions will qualify for that base rate while those who do will pay a base rate of 25 percent down from the previous 35 Percent Companies that start out between october of this year and march of 2023 will be offered an even lower base rate of 15 percent and while reaction was positive the sudden and dramatic move by the indian policymakers suggest that they saw a weakening in Economic Indicators that call for such a bold action as indian growth reached its 6 year low tax cuts added to a list of stimulus actions for 29000. 00 that already includes 4 Interest Rate cuts by the reserve bank of india. Meanwhile Prime Minister and the