All right. I dont consider myself a journalist. And, nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . We are here today with chuck schwab, one of the bestknown figures in the American Business world, certainly has been so over the last several decades because of his ubiquitous face and his ads, but also because of the Great Company he has built, which is one of the leading Financial Service companies in the united states. He has now just written a book, called invested by Charles Schwab and i want to talk about that and his life, which is incredible. Let me start by asking about something you made news with just recently. Your Company Announced you are not just going to do discount brokerage, you are going to give away brokerage for free. In other words, if i want to buy some stock, i call up, i have an a
Im Andrew Ross Sorkin with joe kernen and melissa lee becky is off again we are about 111 points up now s p 500 looking to open about 11 points higher. Flip is around and show you we are at. 952. Still under the six handle i always wonder what the bond vigilantes are thinking now relative to our little equity world. Worth noting we are still 3 well away from the february record highs some highlights. The ceo of Tractor Supply, auto nation venture capitalist, treasury secretary mnuchin, house leader and twitter ceo. A huge lineup straight ahead thats a big show yeah. You guys always have a big show but this is particularly large. For you because you are here people said, melissa will be on book her i think they wanted to do it for you but i think they were scared if they didnt do it of me thats the feeling they got they didnt want to disappoint you. I doubt it thats nice to say but i doubt it im not a scarey person. Im not. Maybe to you nows this morning out of washington. Reaching Comm
Tech names may be beneficiaries of a decision the United Kingdom has made when it comes to huawei and 5g. But wait a minute. The big banks did send up some warning flares in their quarterly reports on this first day of Second Quarter earnings season. Why are the biggest names in finance fast inflating their Rainy Day Funds . What do they see that you might not . Our floor show traders are on it. They will shine a light on it and explain. Just as teslas stock bubbles even higher, here comes a potential pin to pop it. Fisk fiskers uber cool all electric ocean suv with its 300 mile range, karaoke and california mode features is ready to open the reservation lines. Founder, chairman and ceo lhenrk fisker is here on his unique route to the New York Stock Exchange, taking on elon musk and yes, he will explain what california mode is. Pretty cool. From california all the way to a tiny private island on the east coast where the wealthy elite are ready to pay a pretty penny to escape from the c
Coming up for the rest of the hour. The chairman and ceo of train technologies trane technologies, they do hvac. We will talk about how you recondition all of the airconditioning units that we have to allow us to basically eat and drink inside. A really important conversation as we think what will happen as we approach the autumn and fall. What will happen to the service side of the economy. The banks are in big focus. 93 man sachs reporting a surge in revenue on the stocks and bond trading in the Second Quarter. Highlights is our bloomberg wall street reporter. They have a lot of questions about the m a environment. Goldman the lead m a advisor. The backlogn saying is higher, but he expects activity to continue in the next two to four quarters. , but we will see them come back. There are a lot of uncertainties. One question was about the election season. Solomon warned that is a ways away. As we know in the u. S. There are major uncertainties with how largescale deals are viewed among
Commerzbank. There it is, new york city, the private equity firm really going after commerzbank. They throw out the chairman, the ceo, and you have to wonder how t adjusts the plan from adjusts the plan. The body count of three major european banks it is a stunning 61,000 redundancies just over the last number of months. Costcutting has got to be front and center for mr. Sewing. Francine he mentioned that a little bit. We also had a conversation on wirecard, saying there is something that they need to look at even more. Lets get to first word news with your take a group that. Reportedeijing has zero new coronavirus cases for the first time in 26 days, a sign that a resurgence that the second wave in china is now under control. Instead of an across the board lockdown, beijing tested more than 11 million people. Anthony fauci says any Coronavirus Vaccine would be limited in how it would provide protection. He told a Video Conference that Health Officials assume a shot would offer a degre