Coronavirus scams. At 9 00 a. M. , middle State University professor Sidney Mcphee discusses Higher Education during the pandemic and his participation in good morning, its friday, july 17, 2020. We begin today on the issue of requiring face masks be worn in public. As new coronavirus cases continue to spike around the country, more than half youve u. S. States have made mask use mandatory. Governor of georgia is fighting municipal mass clause in his state, in an effort to continue to allow mask used to be optional. Should mask wearing in public the mandatory . F you think yes, 2027488000 if you think no, 2027488001. If you arent sure, 2027488002. You can also send us a text this morning. That number, 2027488003 please include your name and where youre from. Otherwise catch up with us on social media. On facebook, facebook. Com cspan. A good friday morning to you. You can start calling and as we show you some headlines about what is happening in states around the country when it comes
Kelly, so remember last week we were talking about how value was outperforming growth last week that lasted exactly one week today were back at the old pattern and its basically growth and technology virtually over Everything Else theres the dow flattish on the day, but s p 500 still trying to get over that 3032 hump not easy to do, but tech overplaying, the investments, the bank stocks all did very well last week theyre a little lower today amazon had an awful week, down 8 last week guess what, its regained a good part of that loss today. Alphabet, apple and facebook all on the up side the trend is were back where we were the work from home stuff tends to do very well. This happened since that june 8 high we hit, so the pelotons and zoom videos of the world doing very well. What we call the reopening stocks, the travel and leisure stocks, are not doing very well, and we saw this last week fairly consistently for a while earnings, were about 10 through earnings season. We have about 10
Of a point, call that flat. The gains in the techheavy nasdaq are way more interesting in this final hour because they come about an hour and a half after the department of justice hoisted a sword of damocles over the social media sector. The doj has proposed new legislation that would make Silicon Valley giants from twitter to facebook to google liable for content thats posted online that violates federal law. Our floor show traders are here to tell us if doj danger is now the cue for you to take your tech profits and run. The Housing Market in full bloom as States Reopen and wouldbe homeowners resume their quest to fulfill part of the american dream. The ceo of mortgage Lending Software giant reveals what hes seeing in the Mortgage Market as rates remain at historic lows. Time to refi . Well ask. General motors flips the script from making cars to transmissions to medical supplies needed to fight the coronavirus pandemic. How about that. Well, the chief engineer running gms productio
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