In protests as the City Council Votes to defund and cut more than 100 officers from the force. We have the latest, plus uprisings in portland and chicago. Markets meantime pointing gains at the open, 279point gain on dow futures. Gains across the board this after mixed performance yesterday. Look at the blue chips go. The nasdaq finishing in the red after a week showing in the tech sector money peeling out of the stocks but the dow gaining more than 1 . 357 points. Protecting your data, flaws and snap dragonship putting 1 billion android phones at risk from a hack attack. Looks to connect all of your Smart Devices to one another. Vaccine risk. Vladimir putin says his country has a vaccine but here at home the epidemic can affect the effectiveness. Checking the world and stock market action, european markets are up across the board. We have gains north of 2 in england, france and germany. In the uk another 81,000 people lost their jobs last month. That number was slightly better than wh
He will be having a press conference detailing a little bit more on that capitalgains tax cut he continued in a radio interview. Also maybe a follow up on that shooting outside of the white house yesterday. It was pretty scary to watch. A lot of folks not knowing what was going on at the time. We do know what is going on in chicago and we do know it is not right. Right now the unrest continues. Fears of more unrest today. They have drawn up the bridges around chicago to limit where protesters can gather. Good luck with that. A number of College Football conferences, that can buy the bullet today and decide there will be no fall College Football season. Can you imagine that . Already some very big conferences at least have members contemplating just that. The quarterback of the clemson team does anyone bounce this off of us . I would like to play football, guys. The president sympathetic to the players concerns. Right now proving to be an uphill battle. There is of course what is happen
Doses ready to ship once they get the green light and speaking of green light, joe biden wants to go ahead and raise Corporate Taxes, he is tapping his inner Bernie Sanders and outlining his economic plans using terms like fair share and calling for an end to what he calls shareholder capitalism. We are all over that story you can bet. We may hear the president s response to mr. Bidens plan shortly, he will be leaving for an event in florida this hour. We expect he will speak to reporters before boarding marine one as he likes to do and you will certainly see that right here when it happens. You will also see very little let up in the tech rally, despite theyre down day overall, the big tech names holding their own with more record gains. Amazon, it is hit an alltime high for six days in a row. Not bad. Apple, not much of a pullback of the stays above 380 a share, same story for microsoft, not much of a drop there, for microsoft still at 213 box. Facebook is above 240, despite constant
Lot going on as stuart did tell you that whole hearing where the tech giants will gather virtually at least. It is parked back maybe half an hour. I was doing back of the napkin guesstimating on their wealth. That is on, i think is worth about 180 billion. Our Charlie Brady follows this thing would know to the penny. I think it is roughly about that. Mark zuckerberg facebook, close to 90 billion, close to 2 billion, tim cook of apple, thanks to appreciation of that stock, he is at around 2 billion. So lets say you were to add all of this. These are numbers. I added it all up. That is 272 billion collectively. These are among the richest men on the planet, particularly when it comes to bezos and zuckerberg. But putting companies combined market cap at north of 5 trillion. If you were to add microsoft to that bunch, microsoft will not be part of this hearing. They represent the five most valuable companies in the world. Isnt that amazing . Youre welcome america. We have this delay. We ha
But you have to think of where we were and even with todays selloff, it is not really affecting all sectors. In fact more than half are still up. The fact of the matter technology, we just cant seem to pause even for a nanosecond, continues to advance. Well go over all of that, including things that could be weighing on stocks, including some extended shutdowns and restrictions everywhere from texas right now, what is going on in florida as well. Then there is hope on the virus front. That of course is something that is not seen all the time here but on the vaccine, more to the point of the virus, we keep track of this thing. There are about nine premier offerings or combinations being touted by various governments or biotech concerns of that, that are promising everything from an antiagain, quickly can tell you whether you have the virus in matter of minutes all the way up to vaccines potential curse that could be available soon as end of this year. The u. S. Investing a princely sum