Roll out some responses to Chinas Hong Kong law as the showdown with twitter gets escalated around the minneapolis protests oil near 33, the focus is squarely on twitter and this rule violation that the president s account got slapped with, and then the white house account, the official white house account retweets were all kind of confused, as marc benioff, who is against this obscure regulation that gives these companies an exception todo this, many are confused it seems President Trump wants to create his own enemy with if you start regulating these Companies Rather than having the exception, theyre always going to have to put a counter to what President Trump wants. I think what he may not understand is free speech is nasty. What he had until this was a great run of things. Its going to make it tough for him to be aggressive on twitter. He doesnt have press conferences that work because of all the displeasure he had with regular reporters. Hes disintermediating himself from the pub
Claims and 21 million continuing claims better than the week before. But still incredibly bad on an absolute basis same thing with the stock market we get crushed today sell, sell, sell. Obliterated wrong. Once again, the averages spent most of the day well into the black despite still more hideous macro data either we sold off the end of the session, dow 148 points, s p falling 1. 2 nasdaq easing 4. 6 , again, the market was up most of the day. The climb were about the incredibly weak labor market what happened when we heard the claims numbers right from the oechg . There is fear actions the president might take against tech because of his anger about social media and the president s plans for punishing china over hong kong, punishment that could reverberate to our own companies that do business there so then why did the stock market open up big when those hideous figures at this point its become a cliche to insist that wall streets tote lit disconnected from main street. After all, h
Front. Showing millions of jobs lost. Well see more with the jobless claim number and tomorrow with the number from the government dow looks to be up 260 s p up by 34 and nasdaq up by 118. We are getting competing views jobless numbers we know are bad. Then you see oil prices that tell you where things may be headed prices may be up again gain of 7. 3 this shows you maybe things are starting to pick up around the globe. Maybe that demand is coming back that may be something to hang your hat on. Andrew thank you we have a huge lineup of guests. Secretary of state mike pompeo will join us to discuss relations with china former ceo of Goldman Sachs about the outlook of the economy and the ceo of paypal and also talking to the ceo of hilton and aflac ceo will join us and our media guru from lion tree hard to think we are going to pack it all in in three tiny hours. That means no screwing around at all today is what i think go for it then. Three hours time for everything. With err going to
Here it is, word for word, quote, trump says china may or may not keep the trade deal, end quote. That sent stocks into the close. Check out the move on the nasdaq, for instance it was up big for most of the day and the sharp slide in the final moments of trade ditto for the s p 500. So guy adami, is china back in play here . Is this the next big risk factor for the markets . Yes, and before i get into great detail, i have to wish tim seymour, as he power pitches today, a very happy birthday just wanted to get that out. Happy birthday, tim seymour what was that very kind thank you. Yeah. I absolutely think this is a big deal and we started talking about it last week, and not in terms of their trade deal or where theyre going to keep their end of the bargain and in terms of some of the rhetoric coming out of the Trump Administration what im commenting is the rhetoric seems to be getting louder and in no way, shape or form is that market bullish especially given the fact that the markets
Flat for 2020 as tech continues to lead the gains. Financials and utilities amongst the worst performers today coming up on todays show, we will speak exclusively with sap ceo Christian Klein about his companys efforts to develop a coronavirus Contact Tracing app and what hes hearing from customers about the state of local business and the earnings reports will come fast and furiously this afternoon highlighted by lyft, grub hub, tmobile and well speak with tmobile Ceo Mike Sievert ahead of his companys Conference Calls just after numbers cross. The big stories we are watching, mike santoli following the volatile trading action, Steve Liesman with a look at the economy and another sobering jobs number today, and deirdre bosa is covering uber and lyft mike, start us off the s p struggling to stay in this zone for the past few weeks. This is a oneyear march its flattened out since april is it resting, rolling over . Its a bit of a standoff i think people are saying right now its preserve