thank you for your time and please come back dave dodson is a professor of management at stanford >>>et's get to the judge and the half >>> all right, carl, thanks very much our breaking news coverage continues now. i'm scott wapner this is the i'halftime report. stocks holding on to gains this hour as markets continue to digest new information regarding the coronavirus. our investment committee is with me, as always today. jim lebenthal, steve weiss, sarat sethi, jon najarian, and meghan is with us. as we said, some optimism about the virus seems to be, at least one reason why stocks are higher this hour, holding on to a gain is the dow of better

thank you for your time and please come back dave dodson is a professor of management at stanford >>> let's get to the judge and the half >>> all right, carl, thanks very much our breaking news coverage continues now. i'm scott wapner this is the i'halftime report. stocks holding on to gains this hour as markets continue to digest new information regarding the coronavirus. our investment committee is with me, as always today. jim lebenthal, steve weiss, sarat sethi, jon najarian, and meghan is with us. as we said, some optimism about the virus seems to be, at least one reason why stocks are higher this hour, holding on to a gain is the dow of better than 500 points there's the s&p, better than 2%. russell is up 3.25%. so steve, i turn to you. we have in the last hour, bernie sanders out. that gave stocks another leg you have a comment from dr. fauci today that the virus turnaround is likely after this week and you have the new york city mayor de blasio saying that there are enough ventilators, he thinks, to get through this week all of that seemingly is enough to keep the market where