Morning. And ready for takeoff . Were asking you, loyal viewer, if the time is right to get back in the air it is thursday, october 15th, and this is worldwide exchangeexchange exchangexchange good morning, good afternoon or good evening, everybody and welcome from wherever in the world that you may be watching im Brian Sullivan it could be a rough day for the markets. Dow off nearly 300 now, lack of stimulus from d. C. And concern about new lockdowns in europe will probably get most of the headlines, but weve nine th known that for a while and this could also be hitting sentiment right now. The Financial Times reporting that france and netherlands seem to be on board with a possible plan to go after big u. S. Tech companies, a leaked paper suggesting that an effort to break up some of the big names is, quote, on the table. Look at those losses in europe, apple down 3 , facebook off 2 and amazon down 2. 5 and here the dow shedding another 160 plus points and on track to snap a two week
Robots to assist in social distancing well talk to the president of George Mason University about that schools hightech Higher Education plan power lunch starts right now thank you. Lets take a look at where we stand with the markets at this hour the dow and the s p are on track for their first weekly declines in a month its now down for the second week in a row. Down another 92 points today big piece of that, check out apple down again today now down about 4 for the week the stock is still up 90 from its 52week low. Its been a rough slog for apple. The bioteches are weighing os the nasdaq you can see the two themes playing out now as we look to close out the week health care and technology, the underperformers today. Theres only one sector in the green. Its Consumer Discretionary and just by a hair tyler. Thank you. Lets send it over now to kayla for news about the other story that is driving the markets today and that is those rising tensions between United States and china. Kay kayl
Years. And lots to come on the show. Two big ceo interviews on the back of earnings in a few minutes well speck to the owner of Outback Steakhouse blooking brands and later the ceo of boston beer will join us that stock surging after the truly hard seltzer brand helped boost sales. Looking forward to both of those interviews were down. 6 lets get to the big stories were watching meg tirell has more on the signing. And mike san totoli is joining s meg, let aers start with youen that executive order news. Hi. Drug pricing hasnt been in the conversation as much this year as the drug industry has been racing to develop vaccines and drugs for covid19 but the president reportedly planning to sign an executive order with a few different aspects on drug price this is afternoon. One could be allowing importation of drugs from canada where theyre price moored cheaply. Another could focus on tying prices to basket of prices from other wealthy countries. And a third could focus on providing free i
Outside the Golden Gate Bridge is beautiful Crystal Clear thats the way tomorrow is going to be as well lets like this afternoon will be temperatures right now are in the 50s for most of us which is a nice mild way to start the morning. Air does have a brisk feel to it though because we are on the breezier side this morning much like we were this weekend winds do continue this morning with wind advisories for much of the bay until 09 00am are mountainous areas will hold on to those wind advisories through tomorrow so a breezy afternoon albeit our strongest of winds this morning. Temperatures later today, well up into the 70s with bayside and inland areas being some of our warmest. Rob all right. Thank you john were heading over to the bay bridge who want to check in on 81 of our busiest registering the morning drive and its very quiet. But its also very slow. So you are backed up here. It does spill through the bottom of the maze and its been like this for a couple of hours now very qu
Bangladesh needs to take the crucial decision of embracing digital technology to ensure essential services like healthcare and education, said Binayak Sen, director general at the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), yesterday.