Switch shares up about 24 this afternoon. Well look at whether that treasury move could help juice the market for ipos coming up. Meanwhile, the new blade runner sequel hits theaters this weekend were going to look at whether this film can revitalize the struggling box office. Lot of fingers crossed in hollywood here as they bring Harrison Ford back one more time. Well see. Good luck. Hope it works. Lets begin today with a jobs report, though. Eyeopening number hs this morning. Our senior economics reports Steve Liesman joins us from austin with a breakdown of those numbers. Steve . Reporter yeah, bill, you had to cast your eyes down on this number here. But whats happening right now is people are really throwing out the weak number on the top line and looking to the details of the report and they find strength here. Let me show you what theyre talking about here the top line number minus 33,000 quite a bit below the 80,000 estimate you have the revisions to the prior months which were
Doubled the debt in the obama years. And the New York Times calls it a comic tax cut and give away to the wealthy, perhaps those rich democrats will give back their tax cuts. Im waiting. All of that is politics. Lets get to your money. Google, microsoft, amazon, three of the fabulous five. They will announce their Financial Results today, very important stuff. How they do will make a big difference to your 401 k , which is already doing very well indeed. Overall, the dow starts out this morning, just 140 points from its alltime high. It will go up just a little bit more at the opening bell today. Were very glad youre watching and listening on satellite radio, this is going to be fun. Varney company is about to begin. Well take a look at what theyre proposing, but i can tell you this, if the president s plan is to give a massive tax break to the very wealthy in this country, a plan that will benefit people and businesses like President Trump, that wont pass muster with we democrats. Stu
Original content. That is ahead. Now to the lead vr. Those that only letters you need to know about what is next intact. That is according to a new report. I am talking about virtual reality. This week, it seems like everywhere you turned there were stories about Companies Pushing into vr technology. In 15 years, we could see virtualreality everywhere from hospitals to the courtrooms if sales take off and prices come down. So far, facebook, google and microsoft have spent billions in brvr tech. Years of development from companies and the markets price will hit the market soon. Gene munster joins us and an investor at keenan partners in silicon valley. Thank you for joining us. Gene i will start with you. 15 years from now, you save er will be everywhere. Are people ready . Do people really want to strap these headsets on an go into the Virtual World . Gene they dont understand what the value that will be created for this in the utility and experiences. Ifi think if they could understan
Then, like Everything Else he inherited, he ran it straight into the ground. The case against donald trump and mike pence is open and shut. Harris however, President Trump fired back today, saying the california senator is pushing an extreme agenda that will hurt americans. Watch the president. Well, shes radical left. Now she tries to pretend shes not, but shes the most liberal person in the u. S. Senate, shes done things that are terrible in terms of the police, and terms of the second amendment, in terms of Everything Else, and she is a big taxer, as joe is a big taxer. Harris we have team fox coverage now. Peter doocy standing by live for us in wilmington, delaware. First, kevin corke, who is at the white house where that briefing is set to begin any moment. Good afternoon, harris. We were just told the briefing will likely begin right around 1 15. If history holds, that probably means maybe one 20, 1 25. Either way, well be here for you and have life coverage. If you were surprise
Mark, what are we looking for today . Reporter good afternoon. We are expecting an update from the Vice President as well as members of the task force dealing with the coronavirus within the next few minutes, the Briefing Room still fairly empty. They may be waiting for reporters to come in. This was a lateminute scheduled briefing. Also meeting with the president this morning, but we something very interesting that ive never actually seen before. About half an hour ago, a member of the White House Medical Office came to each or us in the White House Press corps and asked to take our temperature. This, we were told, was out of an abundance of caution for anybody who could be coming into contact with the president or Vice President. It wasnt a panic of any sort, but it certainly was an indication they are taking things seriously. It appears one of our colleagues may have had a temperature that was of some concern and was not allowed into the briefing. However, we havent been able to fig