Thanks for taking my question, you added a sentence into the statement about the course of the economy depends on the path of the virus is this do you feel this idea or view is not widely enough understood do you feel you had warned back in may that too early reopening or cautious reopening might harm the economy do you feel that message is not heard and some of these reopenings took place perhaps sooner than they should have i think we feel that it might be the most central fact or the most central driver of the economy is the virus were seeing that again. You saw that during the lockdown when we got cases way down you saw the economy reopening. You saw spending go up and hiring go up now that the cases have spiked again. Again, the early data, highfrequency data suggests that theres a slower pace of growth at least for now. We dont know how deep or how long that will be. Its such an important sentence, we just decided that it needed to be in our post meeting statement. Its so fundame
Social Media Companies ylan mui has more on the story reporter the dojs proposal strikes at the heart of the Business Model for platforms like facebook, google and twitter, section 230 of the communications ccc act the first is what theyre calling the bad samaritan bill, for platforms that facilitate or solicit illegal activity, and the second specific exemptions for child exploitation, and actual knowledge of elicit activity the doj cannot do this alone they would need congress to act to change the law. Big tech doesnt have a lot of friends on capitol hill these days just today, republican senator josh hawley unveiled a bill that would remove text Liability Protections unless the Companies Promise to act in good faith or pay a 5,000 fine to users if they dont meanwhile, democratic senator mark warner said that he believes section 230 has allowed companies to turn a blind eye to a host of ills, but melissa, he also said hes worried that the doj is using these tools as a way to get Big
The dow is down now 1040 points now live from ep rate locations, youre looking at the worst day for the s p since may 1st. For the dow, it is since april 1st, and you really have to go down about 1200 points to go further than that. Were watching a number of different dynamics at play one is just the reality check that we got from the fed and jay powell, it is the recovery, the covid spike that sarah was juk talking about, and the success in various pockets apple is down, but it is still up more than 7. 5 for the week microsoft is similarly down almost 2 today, but up 5 for the week sam z amazon, google is just up 1. 3 for the week and down today, but you cant just look at one day up or down so we have been up so much, morgan, one wonders how much of a reaction in the market this is going to be. We have been hearing for days and weeks now the idea that the rapid run, off of the lows, for major averages from that march 23rd low that were looking overboulgt or even like they were getting
Today, a dose of reality whether fed allrld bank, oecd, worrying about the economy. Virus upticks in texas, california, worries about a second wave. Now . Ne where are we taylor take a look at this. You and i have been talking about how key this previous resistance was, now becoming a new support level. We blew through that, down now 3 the s p 500, closing at ,002. That clearlyaying this is not a good sign. He was hoping for that moving average to provide some key support. Now that you have fallen through it, a little bit of a dip. New resistance line clearly on the bottom of the screen. Ofht back to an rsi reading 50. You mentioned the travel and leisure stocks. This is a oneday move. Carnival, macys, delta. The minute we woke up this morning, the entire narrative changed in an instant. Wells fargo, off 9 yesterday, off 9 today, the worst two days going back since march. We will hear tomorrow on lowering her Dividend Forecast for wells fargo. Who will have to see how some of the other
Expected i think were going through a period of i hate to use that cliche, rational exuberance. People want to get back in the market and theyre being when you see this nickel you featured highly for the last couple days, people are just anxious to put money. Theres a lot of money on the sidelines. And i personally think that we should be concerned and be concerned about whats ahead for the economy. The rest of the summer and into the fall i mean, i think were living in artificial dream world at the moment i think unemployment is going to increase i think that businesses are not going to come back to work as fast as they have. On the other hand, on the other hand, and im going to be selfish, we have companies that are doing well in this environment. But they in special neariches. There are companies who are going to increase and probably certainly a company like facebook and apple and several of the others you mentioned are beneficiaries of this times were living, the Delivery Companie