A little hard. It looked to me like it was twitter. Like watching twitter for 90 minutes. I did not stick to my original plan. Baseball and bed the two bs i stayed up. I want my time back. I didnt stay up for that long you can play this game with me i felt dissed. How much words can you come up with disappointing, disturbing, disspiriting, distracting, disheartening. Disgusting. You can probably go there disspiriting i looked it up thats exactly what i wanted to say. After all those disses, i wound up with disinteresting thats when i was gone right . It was a let down ly say that. Some people like to watch the fighting it is hard to turn around from it if you were somebody who was tuning in. In my core pin of both candidates, nothing really changed. Mike Wallace Chris wallace had a tough job. I guess he did okay. Im not going to nominate him why do you bother having rules for a debate if nobody is going to bother to follow them kill the rules or give the moderator a kill switch. Both s
And s p 500, nas in six weeks. Yeah. Well start with tech. More broadly, ipos and big tech valuations have been surging culture questions continue to brew in Silicon Valley as well i want to talk about that and a lot more with long time venture capitalist whose newest venture is a private and middle school with entrepreneurship baked into the curriculum Draper Associates founder tim draper joins us now. Tim, good to see you i want to start with your take on these markets i was talking just yesterday to the founder of rike. He said he isnt going public this year because he underestimated how well the ipo market was going to perform in a pandemic has that surprised you and what are you saying about it to your Portfolio Companies . Absolutely. I was blindsided i didnt realize that the government was going to print 13 trillion it has been strong for bitcoin and it sure has been good for the Public Markets particularly the tech stocks that have benefitted from that and i think people many p
We continue our breaking News Coverage tonight as protesters have taken to the streets of louisville these are live pictures from the scene. This after a former Police Officer was indicted only on firstdegree wanton endangerment charges for his actions on the night that Brianna Taylor was killed by police in her apartment. These live pictures from downtown louisville. There is a curfew the supposed to take effect in less than a half hour. We have not seen a lot of activity a couple minutes ago these live pictures did show some people kind of running down the street going around a corner. We saw some officers with helmets and batons also moving down the street, some civilian vehicles kind of racing rather quickly down the street but we havent seen tear gas or rubber bullets. Chemical irritant said police say they are prepared to use and we havent seen any signs of the National Guard which has also been called into action the Downtown District in louisville, kentucky started boarding up
Latter part of the day sunshine returns. So dont worry about that were holding on to plenty of sunshine and good air quality for your thursday which is the stuff that weve enjoyed lately all that sun. These mild temperatures and of course the easy breathing that has come along with it lately 60s for your current temperatures, youll notice its warmer feel stepping outside all that cloud cover overhead shelters us from a lot of heat loss during overnight hours. So as opposed to yesterdays clear but cool conditions. It is a fairly mild but cloudy start to this morning. Later on today, well be looking at highs in the 70s 80s, not much different than today. A pleasant afternoon before the weekend warmup which ill get to in the rest your forecast. Robin all right. Thank you john how about we check in on the traffic. For the early birds that are heading to work this morning we are hot spot free. So thats a great way to start off the morning commute 8024 5. 80 the nimitz all doing fine leading
Fortt and sara eisen is joining us, working a split shift. The biggest loss for the dow since july 30th. Were back to 34. 30. Had a pretty good nice opening, john, as we got that trade deal commitment, the phone call between the reps between the u. S. And china then Consumer Confidence hits and it was just not enough to offset the best number for new home sales since 2006. Yes some things still creeping higher you see amazon a bit higher. Microsoft up about a percent alphabet, too. Adobe hitting alltime highs earlier this morning, which just goes to show, there are certain story lines in this market, sarah that continue to do well for sure, naturally, the s p 500 is positive because of those groups communication services, consumer discretionaries, financials are higher and the nasdaq just topped higher, john, as squawk alley started as Technology Goes green. I would just say on the consumer, this is a mixed picture were getting. Confident was down, all of the components of it, carl, we