Today, Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell said he will take any nominee to the senate floor for a vote. First, i will talk about the markets moves of the day. Abigail doolittle is with us from new york. Abigail a volatile one. You cant go a day without massive swings in the u. S. Sharply lower. The nasdaq at the lows, down 2. 4 . The s p 500, down 3 . At the end of the day, the nasdaq 100, what a turnaround. Led by the mecca cap faang index. The tech index for the s p 500 up about the same amount. In the morning, it did seem like there were some buyers looking. Apple, up 3 . You saw that stock leading another mega cap higher. Confidence as the day went on. Bonds did not rally all that much. The yen was flat. It was not really risk off this morning as a result. Very interesting, one reason to think that they be the buying think that maybe the buying will continue. Ign, all thesecus stocks started out the day lower. Big gains for those stocks. On thers wanting in stocks up huge amoun
Critics say he failed to deliver on most of his promises. One of chinas biggest conglomerate says it is optimistic despite divisions with the u. S. From the boss involved. Shery we are getting Industrial Production numbers from the month of july in south korea falling. Missing estimates it would only fall by around 2 . We also have the month on month numbers. A gain of 1. 6 . That is missing estimates it would rise more than 2 . This is also a deceleration in gains when it comes to those numbers from the previous month. We do have the outbreak in south korea worsening. Virus pandemice within south korea and overseas. The numbers are not that surprising. Improvingn numbers and the slump easing for the past three months. When it came to the numbers in august, we saw the number starting to deteriorate. We are seeing those Industrial Production numbers missing estimates. Contracting 2. 5 year on year. We do get tomorrow, south koreas Second Quarter final gdp numbers. We will be watching th
Hello and welcome to tonights virtual Commonwealth Club program. My name is read and im a Technology Reporter with the Washington Post and im pleased to be the moderator for tonights program, the historical importance of the transformation brought on by Artificial Intelligence and virtual environment. As we have seen over the last three months with the covid19 pandemic and with social media with the killing of george floyd in minneapolis and the aftermath , technology and online environments that every aspects of our life here tonight i am pleased it to be joined by two Silicon Valley pioneers to discuss these issues. William davidow and Michael Malone, their new book, the autonomous revolution reclaiming the future of the machines is out now and delves deeply into the revolution we are living through regarding a i and virtual environment and it can be purchased everywhere including bn. Com. A bit about tonight speakers, bill david, the cofounder of the earlier in his career he worked
The s p and nasdaq shaking off earlier losses closing near the highs of the day. There is optimism out there about a economic recovery and also about hopes for a vaccine. So, optimistic day. We will get to the launch. Well spend a lot of the hour on it. First fox Business Team coverage of our top stories. Lauren simonetti on the markets for us, blake burman in washington who has the latest for the president who is in florida for the launch and Kristina Partsinevelos joins us with news on disney. We start, blake, with you. Reporter connell, melissa, speaking of that launch who wouldnt want a front row seat to it. Exactly where President Trump and first lady, the Vice President , section lady are right now in florida in advance of what we are expecting to be the historic launch about 31, 32 minutes from now at the Kennedy Space center. President trump taking a tour there. He was asked what his message is for those two astronauts who will be aboard the spacex rocket going up to the Intern
Baseball is looking at an 80game season starting in july. Football arrives in september. Disney allowed, what, onethird capacity at its shanghai park and it sold out. While lockdowns continue, they are being challenged most notably by elon musk. Wasnt to op he wants to open his tesla plant in california. The Authorities Say no. Hes going to court and says he will move out of state if the factory stays closed. As for the market, that will open lower. Solid gains recently but a pullback so far this morning. The dow is looking at a loss of 270. The s p down about 30. The nasdaq off about 72 points. Lets get to politics. Big week for that. It is trump versus obama. General flynns lawyer says the plot to undermine the Incoming Trump administration was launched in the white house by outgoing president obama. President trump calls it obamagate. Theres a lot more coming on that one, believe me. Its monday morning, may 11th, already, and another big show for you. Varney company is about to begi