So i welcome you this morning, thank you all for coming, my name is dane kennedy. Im the director of the National History center. Which is sponsoring this briefing. It is on the geo politics of middle east oil, Historical Perspectives on the current crisis. I want to just briefly explain what we are doing here and why were doing it. This is part of an ongoing series sponsored by the center that brings Historical Perspectives to current issues. The center itself is strictly nonpartisan. The purpose of the program is not to advocate for any particular policies, but in fact to provide sort of Historical Context to help inform policy makers and the public as they deal with difficult issues. I want to thank or acknowledge the Financial Support of the mellon foundation, which makes this briefing series possible. I want to thank rachel wheatly in the back of the room who is our assistant director and has helped to organize this. I want to thank the office of jerry connelly. Which has booked t
They keep opec happy there are now more than 368,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States. This is according to Johns Hopkins. How they tracking the virus and if peak in new cases is near lets send oifrt to kelly. I always feel better when i see you in that lovely set up there. Thank you bob is tracking the market moves for us bob, lets start with you. Were coming off the highs here. A few sectors are participating. Its good to see the banks up again. Its good to see the Energy Stocks up as well. Its good to see retail up as well tech curiously is lagging here apple is doing nothing today the consumer names not doing too much the kroger, general mills. These had big rally or they out performs in a down week overall theres some big movers that people are saying. Look at kohls up 28 . These stocks have been cut in half kohls was 5 45 a month ago an now its 17 carnival was up big two or three times more than it was right now. Simon property, kimco. All of these stocks have bee
What we are doing here and why were doing it. This is part of an ongoing series sponsored by the center that brings Historical Perspectives to current issues. The center itself is strictly nonpartisan. The purpose of the program is not to advocate for any particular policies, but in fact to provide sort of Historical Context to help inform policy makers and the public as they deal with difficult issues. I want to thank or acknowledge the Financial Support of the mellon foundation, which makes this briefing series possible. I want to thank rachel wheatly in the back of the room who is our assistant director and has helped to organize this. I want to thank the office of jerry connelly. I also want to alert you to the fact you have index cards on your chairs. This is for questions. As the presenters are speaking, feel free to jot down questions. Well collect them. Theyll give formal remarks in the first half hour and the second half hour will be devoted to q a. Well go from there. Thank y
I could go on and on. Growing china trade uncertainty. Things are getting a little violent right now in hong kong. For next two hours well put it all together. We say boo, you decide whether you still want to buy. See what we did there . Neil boo were down 226 points just like that. Starting off the first day of this problematic month. It is not traditionally the worst month for stocks but more memorable from some of those crashes, crashettes whatever you call them. Im not saying it will end up this way but it is starting out that way and scaring some folks. We have had big drops this month. October of 18 we can remember 1342 hit. In 081525 point hit. We could go on and on. In percentage terms the big one to beat is 25 plus hit in the dow in october of 1929. In 1987 we lost a quarter of the dows value. I only mention that, this is a spooky month. We have a lot of spooky developments were getting into. Not only widening search for subpoenas on capitol hill and people resisting those sub
Disrupting this is bad for the markets. Whatever helps it is good. That is where we stand. It is not a political thing or red or blue thing. It is a green thing. Whether they are republicans or democrats they love making lots of money. My name is neil cavuto. My thanks to david asman filling in while i was out. What is occupying the markets attention, to impeach or not to impeach whether there is enough evidence or drama around this to build a case for this. The so far the transcript of the infamous phone call is out. We dont know all the details. We dont know for example, if it es out right verbatim context of the call or whether there were other calls. What weve seen of it so far does not seem to emply anything too, too worrisome for the president , a little icky but not necessarily a constitutional crisis. To blake burman at the white house with more on all of the above. Blake, what have we got . Reporter hi, there, neil, here is the argument and the president and the white house ar