Washington and the world talking, microsoft eyeing an acquisition of tiktok and is this comes after President Trump threatened to ban the app in the u. S. Over security concerns. The president made an about face and gave microsoft the go ahead to proceed with the deal josh lipton has the very latest. So, melissa, President Trump also weighing in here. Take a listen to what he had to say today. It will close down on september 15th unless microsoft or somebody else is able to buy it and work out a deal, an appropriate deal, so the treasury of the, really, the treasury, i guess you would say, of the United States gets a lot of money so, why is microsoft interested in tiktok well, its a wildly popular app with 100 million users already here in the u. S. Engagement trends are strong analysts note that users already spend over an hour a day on the app. Patrick moorhead emphasizes two broad reasons why this could make strategic sense one, he argues microsoft is relatively week in Consumer Ser
Raleighdurham. The president is about to step out of that plane. I can tell you right now, we are going to be there with cameras because back in d. C. , theres another huge story developing. The congressional antitrust sharks are circling. In less than 48 hours, jeff bezos of amazon, apples tim cook, google alphabets Sandar Pichai and mark succeed you azu facebook will be the ones in hot water. It is the First Time Ever that all four will simultaneously be taken to task by law makers. If congress is smart, okay, i know, if congress were smart, they would get suggested questions from this guy. Basecamp cofounder and chief technology officer. He hes the only one who has taken on three of the four and lived to tell about it. He will reveal the number one question he says congress should ask each of those tech titans that he says will cause crumbling. Plus, could a new u. S. china ticking time bomb threaten social medias hottest name . China economic insider derek scissors gives his threat
Bedeviled the world and this could be a sign they had been long waiting for. Hope springs eternal here and you obviously need something beyond just phase two trials that look promise. Well get into that with a top doctor. Meantime look what is going on in wall street here and why everything is looking green thus far. Jackie deangelis on that. Hey, jackie. Reporter good afternoon, neil. Everything is green as you said. Moderna seeing a huge pop on this news today and the dow is up more than 800 points and the point here is weve been talking about therapies, weve been talking about treatments but there is Nothing Better in terms of reopening the American Economy than a vaccine that would prevent people from getting the coronavirus. That is why you have this kind of optimism today. Now this was data from a phase one trial as you mentioned. So it is still very early here but it does mean, that the company can move forward. It is saying the goal to get to phase three in july. If everything
In the early part of the session, not just the yield curve that dom mentioned but suspensions of dividends from very large european banks this morning as well. And you have the great interview with michael as well talking about that bank and everything hes seeing through that lens, too the other thing in focus, real estate, worst performing sector in the s p today in what is a down day across the board for the major averages coming off the worst First Quarter for the dow and s p ever the other thing im looking at is crude were seeing crude prices come off again after not only the worst month but the worst quarter ever in terms of price fall for crude, lost more than 66 if in the first three months of the year prp you also had the industrial numbers, manufacturing numbers out of europe that didnt look good either john, what are you watching today . Its hard to find good news among tech stocks this morning so much is down. I think its worth having a broader conversation about where we go
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