John malone with the legendary media icon has to say about the covid19 virus, direct to consum consumer, streaming, so many other topics we hit in our hour long shutdown. The ceo of goodrx, we had him last week, since then, amazon came into the business what does it mean for his business carl, well ask that question amongst others. Yeah, thats good stuff for this hour, guys. Jim, we talked for last week and a half about the fact that a path to the vaccine would face some setbacks and clearly new york city schools, new state of emergency in wisconsin, speak to that i think that one of the things that we needed was a bridge, which would be stimulus, to the vaccine we dont have the stimulus were getting terrible numbers, we have half the country that thinks the numbers are okay, given the fact that the death rate hasnt skyrocketed. We have the other half, were saying, look, if we dont do something about it, then the Healthcare System is going to be overwhelmed. In that scenario, it is ver
Few sessions for tech stocks losing over a trillion dollars in value in just the last three days josh lipton is sorting through the carnage and has more josh thats right, jon bigtech names suffering big losses take another look here at apple, minhaj, amazon, alphabet, facebook and tesla just to put the plunge into perspective. The last three days essentially wiping out three weeks of gains. At the start of this year, these Six Companies were worth about 5 trillion. Their value then peaked at 8 trillion just last week. Now they lost about 1 trillion sounds like a lot, but also keep in mind, the remarkable runs these stocks have had. For example, apple is trading about 15 off its alltime high. Still up, though, about 60 so far this year. Same goes with amazon. Down about 6 so far this month, but the stock is still up more than 70 so far in 2020. Also, check out the smh, the etf that tracks the chips bouncing here this morning. Trading about 10 off its most recent high. Sector surge on th
Abramowicz and tom keene. The first full week for america. We welcome all of you to our simulcast, Bloomberg Radio and bloomberg television. It is merger monday. Across the headline from verizon, they will buy track phones from america mobile for 6. 25 billion. It is like an afterthought this morning when you look at the frenzy to get out there and by revenue. Announced 60 minutes ago, if you have access to these Capital Markets and many people do, they have the money to go do it. Immediate fixed income picture, William Gross will join us at the bottom of the hour. We will get an update from the retired one. I want to talk to him about the financial repression. Lisa, that is a backdrop to everything we talked about. Anybody with yield after inflation is losing. They are falling behind every day. Lisa it is cheaper to borrow money and invest in anything else because it is so cheap to borrow. That is what is driving a lot of the frenzy. There is a question about how far can the financial
Or delayed their plan phase reopening. In texas reversing that saying it must force bars to close today and only remain open for takeout and delivery, that saying that restaurants with indoor capacity right now, lets cut it down from 75 they have been getting used to but the last couple of weeks to 50 and anything to do with rafting and tubing, that stops immediately. So those actions, reversing earlier actions, the first time we have seen it got the markets attention and the fear that other states that have seen a similar uptick in cases with the real test availability and we might do the same. We have gotten hints out of florida that maybe that could be the off thing but that is way too soon to tell. Again, the drill on wall street, you sell first and begin to ask questions and get clarification later. We are also waiting to hear from the president s Coronavirus Task force, we have not seen them in a public setting like this in almost two months, theyre gonna be speaking again were t
Lebeau a moment ago on the airlines and he is back with breaking news regarding american. Take a look at shares of american, the airline is announcing starting on july 1st, starting next wednesday, it will fill its planes completely remember until now it has capped its load factor or the percentage of seats that it would fill on a plane, it would cap it at 70 . Thats going to end as of next wednesday, also adding about 1,000 flights to its schedule in july so this is american saying weve got more people flying, weve got more demand and its time for us to fill these planes all the way. They stress people are still going to be required to wear masks, they will still be pushing the fact that theyre sanitizing planes in between every flight, but the time has come for them to sell every seat, fill every seat and no longer guarantee its capped at a 70 load factor. Guys, this is a day with a lot of airline news between this, the unions asking for another bayout and the airline ceos meeting wi