Why these special Purpose Acquisition Companies are so hot and what the phenomenon says about froth in the market. And golds record rally. Is the yellow metal poised finish even more gains . On the barrons roundtable, my colleagues. So, jack, this week was interesting. Four very powerful dudes get hauled up in front of congress, theyre asked some dumb questions, some tough questions, the market shrugs, the next day they come out with earning, and three of the four stocks soared. Yeah, actually rose during and after the testimony and end then again after results. The stock market this week, if you look at the s p 500, it was up close to 2 . Now, thats a wonderful result, but its particularly great when you consider the backdrop. What did we learn this week . Gross domestic product, the economy shrank 9. 5 from the quarter before. If you feel compelled to annualize that figure, yes jack no, please dont 33 , right . Either way, its the housiest number in 70 years of lousiest number in 70
Nasdaqs going to be up about 60 at the opening bell. From the low of march 23rd to the close yesterday, the value of all publicly traded companies has gone up 12. 2 trillion. You have never seen anything like that before. Next, tesla. Musk does it again. Grabs the headlines with a five for one stock split. That may bring in more Retail Investors. Doesnt change teslas business, but the stock is up bigtime premarket. A gain of 84 bucks per share. Apple announced a four for one stock split a week ago and apple this morning is leading the big tech rebound. Its up four bucks. Then theres this. The big ten, now the pac12 have canceled their football seasons. Looks grim for the college game. This is a financial story. Colleges will lose billions. That virus changed everything, didnt it . Larry kudlow joins us again later. What does he think of a 12 trillion increase in the value of American Business in less than five months . Hes got something to say about it. Hes on the show. Wednesday, augu
Deviations. It is an historic surge in gold. Francine it certainly is, at we have been spending a lot of time on that and we will spend more time on gold. Lets get to first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika good morning. The fight over the chinese consulate in houston shows that hardliners now have the upper hand in the Trump Administration. President trump has allowed a small group of advisors led by Michael Pompeo to push u. S. Policy toward its most antagonistic in decades. U. S. Officials say china has a history of espionage and intellectual property theft. The Trump Administration and Senate Republicans are considering a shortterm extension of extra unemployment benefits. It is unlikely the white house and lawmakers will agree on a broader stimulus deal before the benefits expire. Millions of americans receive supplemental payments that were included in the last laurent virus package. Way for paving the soaring stock to join the s p 500 index. The electric carmaker reported thir
Lavongo on their merger and the first companys earnings report. David has news on microsoft and tiktok. Want to continue to update a story were following closely given we have not seen anything like it. Tiktok the incredibly popular social media app in the u. S. And around the world, bytedance its owner, the u. S. Government saying we will shut tiktok down in the u. S. Unless you find a way to transfer all of it to u. S. Ownership and microsoft playing the role as potentially the only suitor for the business i wanted to bring everybody up to date on new reporting that ive got because it is interesting. Both sides right now, bytedance and microsoft and of course the u. S. Government is still very much involved in this as well are negotiating to try to reach some sort of an agreement under which microsoft would buy the u. S. Business of texas toks u. S. Bit from bytedance within the next two to three weeks. That seems to be what theyre hoping for in terms of a timeline obviously in these
Aztec giants reported blowout earnings. Whats next for the sector . Why these special Purpose Acquisition Companies are so hot and what the phenomenon says about froth in the market. And golds record rally. Is the yellow metal poised finish even more gains . On the barrons roundtable, my colleagues. So, jack, this week was interesting. Four very powerful dudes get hauled up in front of congress, theyre asked some dumb questions, some tough questions, the market shrugs, the next day they come out with earning, and three of the four stocks soared. Yeah, actually rose during and after the testimony and end then again after results. The stock market this week, if you look at the s p 500, it was up close to 2 . Now, thats a wonderful result, but its particularly great when you consider the backdrop. What did we learn this week . Gross domestic product, the economy shrank 9. 5 from the quarter before. If you feel compelled to annualize that figure, yes jack no, please dont 33 , right . Eithe