Im Katie Greifeld in new york. Take a look at markets this morning. Near alltime highs, but a little over today if you take a look at the s p 500, slightly in the red, down by about 0. 2 . Of course still above 5100. Look at the nasdaq 100. Losses getting a little more serious, down about 0. 8 . That follows a big update yesterday. You can see volatility rising a little bit. The vix still below 14, but inching higher and higher. Lets get to what is happening this hour. That is the house voting on a bill that would force chinese tiktok parent bytedance to sell it or face a ban in the usa. The company is planning a full legal fight if the bill becomes law. Junkie double o streams me from washington. Jackie double os davalos joins me from washington. Jackie as you know, the house or the senate have not found Common Ground to agree on almost anything except this bill. It is a bipartisan effort that was brought forth by the House Republican chair of the select committee on china, Mike Galla
Us in a couple minutes. Plus, nova nordisk is experimenting with an obesity drug. And big tech struggles. Apple, those shares are looking for a bounce after a sixday selloff. Tesla, similar story. No longer one of the most valuable s p 500 companies. Lets begin with the 1 billion Equity Investment led by liberty strategic capital. Hes going to join us in a few moments. Got some clarifications today. More data on deposits, the percentage that are insured and so forth. I think its important to know when the former secretary of treasury did a previous deal, which was a deal involving a bank that really was one of the worst run banks in the country, came in, had the bid that was best for the ftic. The cover bid, much lower. It ended up making him a lot of money. Thats being dredged up as somehow against him. The reason i mention that is because the risks may even be bigger here. If only just because were dealing with so many rentcontrol units and the law changed ip2019 to make it so those
Down about 118 points, nasdaq opening down about 117 points. S p 500 off by 16 points right now. Take a look at treasury yields. The 10year at. 93. The 2year at 2. 863. And crypto prices. Weve been talking about crypto quite a bit these days. Up about 4 this morning. Its crazy. And take a look at ether etf. Thats surging too meantime apple is canceling its electric vehicle product. That thats accordinging to those that know. Many employees will be shifted to the Artificial Intelligence division. Apples ceo apple and ceo tim cook have never acknowledged the electric car publicly but referred to working on e autonomous systems. Theyve never been open about this but are now scrapping it. People are looking at it as a major failure. I dont look at it that way. I think what was happening is there was an internal battle inside apple whether to even go this route and i think tim cook was always on the fence. You mean a failure for evs, not just apple. I think the failure of evs right now has