Lets begin with that historic day for apple. It is the most valuable company on earth we shouldnt be surprised, but it just took two years for add a trillion in market cap thats just astounding. Absolutely remarkable its unprecedented to have a trillion dollar company. I added to apple after they announced the split. It makes no economy supplies in terms of benefits to the company in doing that. You can trade partial shares there are robin hood and others, but i thought the market would react positively i added to my core position. I dont want to sell, even though i do have some concerns theres an attack on the app store, which has driven a lot of growth im staying there for now. I think the 5g phone will be the biggest Product Launch theyve ever had around the world. Jim, i notice he own it as well, but to me you sound to be, you know one of the maybe, you know least enthusiastic about where the stock is now and where it can go from here. Do you think thats fair to say . I do, but tha
Whats behind the latest things in saudi arabias role family the commander of the saudi led war in yemen and his son are accused of corruption and dismissed the paul being cleared for the crown prince to become king this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program. Many role family members in saudi. Arabia have been sacked or detained ever since mohammed bin soman was appointed to crown prince 3 years ago to princes are the latest to be purged king solomon sacked 5 had been turkey the commander of the saudi led war in yemen and bin turkey son is no longer Deputy Governor of a region in the northwest of the kingdom both are under investigation for alleged suspicious transactions at the Defense Ministry critics say mohammed bin solomons Anticorruption Campaign is really an excuse for the 35 year old crown prince to remove anyone blocking his path to becoming king 3 senior roles were arrested in march including the kings younger brother prince armored bin abdulaziz and the former cro
Index climbing sharply higher. In the month of august, the cyclicals are leading the way on the year. It is all about tax. It is all about tech. Interesting to see how the month of august plays out. Right now a sleepy summer day. Taylor it does not look like it will be sleepily for much longer. August goes quickly. It is a volatile month. We are in an election year. Abigail it is interesting because there are lots of reasons to think we could have a volatility spike, including the fact we are in the seasonally higher volatility time, august, september, october. The vix curve speaks to a big spike in october. The panic index is at levels close to where it was prior to the selloff in february and the selloff in 2018. The fundamental backdrop for this is despite the fact we have a better initial jobless claim today, which is excellent, but it is still extraordinarily high. It is not even put the financial crisis you cannot see the numbers around the financial crisis relative to where we a
Who has done stiller work at the disinformation tell all, coolers title ever and before that she was scholar with institute on russia and ukraine and how to lose the information war, russia fake news and the future of congress is conflict is an amazing title and essential reading for everyone on this call and zoom and all your friends. We remember russias Successful Campaign to sow distrust and confusion ahead of the president ial election but in order to win the information as nina would say we need to understand what disinformation is. Ive heard around this topic before and what it is not. The information is use of false or misleading information with malign intent. Thats different from misinformation which can be harmful but lacks malign intent. It also has broader goals and propaganda which involves promotion of a nations view. Nona writes, unlike soviet propaganda which sought to promote specific communist centric world view, the kremlin today divides populations around the world
A little bit between on. The english translation angry over the jailing of a husband whos become the biggest threat to Alexander Lukashenko its 26 year old and better lips. And a move thats inflaming tension between washington and beijing a top trump official arrives in taiwan. And i. Have all the sports red bulls max the stop that wins at silverstone breaking mercy this winning start to the f one season. Tensions are boiling over once again and lebanon as protesters gather near the countrys parliament for a 2nd day now and a passionate cold for change youre watching live pictures from there and just in the past few hours police of 5 tear gas to try to disperse the small crowd demonstrators how rocks and shot fireworks. Into the end of a show of anger over tuesdays port explosion they say government corruption is to blame all they want a complete overhaul of the political system into government ministers have responded to that widespread anger by resigning and vironment minister dummy