World . And another heatwave in the northwest. Wildfires continue to rage in california and colorado. How technology can battle the blaze. But first, stocks ending the week mixed. We saw a tech slide. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying the divide still persisting in stimulus talks with the white house. Lets get the latest from bloombergs abigail doolittle. Abigail another bumpy one. Had decentay we gains for stocks. Options Expiration Date tends to bring volatility. We saw that into the close. Often you have traders that need to hedge on different positions around the options to the underlying security. The nasdaq 100 earlier today up pretty sharply, then closing down about 4 10 of 1 . A bit of a bearish reversal for the nasdaq 100. One of the big drags was amazon giving up big gains on the day. Ay may not have been as inspired as it was last year. Something we talked about earlier this week, since the stock was down both days of the event. Traders for whatever reason, you will see that
Mnuchin again today and we will hear from the treasury secretary in a few minutes at delivering alpha. Plus palantirs public debut, backed by peter thiel, it will be a direct listing at the New York Stock Exchange, lots to discuss there. And covid optimism, regeneron saying its treatment cocktail helps in the early stages of the virus and we will talk with the companys cofounder and chief science officer polarity on this hour jim, of course, you have to get the debate out of the way, everybody is talking about that and were going to hear the argument that if you look at futures and even some of the Prediction Markets today, theres an argument that the debate really didnt change the broad contours of the race. Before we got pmi, before we got this little squib from speaker pelosi, the futures were down very big. I was watching dom this morning, it looked like the market would be very ugly and i think that was because of arecognition that there was no way you could possibly have any sort
Joe biden got through all 90 minutes without a gaffe or no senior moment and enough energy to say to the president overshot up man. He called him a racist, a liar and the worst american president ever. Mr. Trump came on strong, perhaps too strong, he may have brought sympathy after he attacked his sons drug use. Key issues were lost in the fight, biden were not answer questions about packing the Supreme Court, he was wrong about the economy under President Trump, he tried to walk away from the green new deal, i wouldve liked to heard more about that, the president would not condemn white supremacist and did not fully answer questions about healthcare. My opinion, nobody one, voters who wanted a fight lost. Right after the debate stocks sold off, features showed a 300point loss for the dow but it has come back, perhaps because a lot more talk about a new stimulus plan and a good jobs report from adp, we are looking at a 50point loss for the dow, Minor Leagues loss for the s p and the na
Day. I. Want to hold this hearing i believe we should not being written forward on this nomination a lot of people on our side just ram it through not until the election is ended i would like the world and the country to know more about your spirit this is a vacancy this occurred there a tragic loss to the great woman and were going to build that they could see with another great the stakes are extraordinarily high for the American People theres nothing unconstitutional about this process. Also coming up corona virus infections are rising across europe but nowhere is the surge as great as in spain and that people say they know who is to blame to not get in more do not want to experience that again the government has to do its homework and must keep its promises and more personnel. Lets you our viewers watching on p. B. S. In the United States and to all of you around the world welcome we begin the day watching americas politicians trying to hold court today Senate Hearings of the conte
And trust legislation. Welcome to todays hearing of the subcommittee on antitrust policy and consumer rights, the title we chosen for today is stacking the tech as google form competition in advertising, i want to think drinking member and her staff for working closely with me and my office, we prepared for today. I also want to think the chairman of the judiciary lscommittee, senator graham for his support of this hearing. This hearing. After i and then senator klobuchar giving our opening remarks, well hear from two panels of witnesses with questions from members of the subcommittee. We have Something Interesting to deal with in the senate and every time they call votes, when they call votes during a subcommittee hearing, were at their mercy. Senator klobuchar and i have both cast our votes on the first of a series of three or four. At some point, were going to have to pause or tag team as we allow other members to hearing is googles Online Advertising business. A novelist andha whet