A human rights of activists is literally all the brunt of this. Youre watching the weekly here on our team a recap of the biggest stories from the past 7 days my names donald quarter thanks for joining us. Bruce has decided not to buy doses of a potential corona virus vaccine being developed by the british firm astra zeneca. Cited a lack of data from the company after the death of a trial volunteer reports claim a 28 year old male doctor in brazil died while taking part in advanced stage 3 trials run by astra zeneca and Oxford University its not known whether he received the actual drug or a placebo meanwhile the u. S. Is now permitted trials to resume after they were temporarily halted and other countries have also restarted them in recent weeks. Has more on the race for the cure. There is always the risk with any vaccine any Clinical Trial that statistical improbability that would point to nor one percent risk that someone dies at someone reportedly was a brazilian doctor he was part
World . And another heatwave in the northwest. Wildfires continue to rage in california and colorado. How technology can battle the blaze. But first, stocks ending the week mixed. We saw a tech slide. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying the divide still persisting in stimulus talks with the white house. Lets get the latest from bloombergs abigail doolittle. Abigail another bumpy one. Had decentay we gains for stocks. Options Expiration Date tends to bring volatility. We saw that into the close. Often you have traders that need to hedge on different positions around the options to the underlying security. The nasdaq 100 earlier today up pretty sharply, then closing down about 4 10 of 1 . A bit of a bearish reversal for the nasdaq 100. One of the big drags was amazon giving up big gains on the day. Ay may not have been as inspired as it was last year. Something we talked about earlier this week, since the stock was down both days of the event. Traders for whatever reason, you will see that
Jason snipe is here as well. Lets get a check on the markets. Stocks are still deep in the red. The nasdaq, the biggest losers by far today on pace for its worst day since june 11th. The s p on pace for its worst day since june big tech names like apple, microsoft, facebook. There you see the index and some of the names amazon, alphabet they are the ones that are dragging the markets lower look at apple. Down nearly 6 microsoft, 5 . Facebook, 5 amazon almost 5 and alphabet 4 whats going up . Only the bond, the tenyear note at. 62 . Lets kick it around a bit is this the beginning of something bad or maybe not i dont think it is when i was on the show last week, i said, hey, all of us on the show today are greedy. Greed has a way of biting you at some point and you have to decide is it a flesh wound or is it drawing real blood. I think its more of a flesh wound. Its taking the weak handed traders buying things like zoom and now selling. That lets others as well were saying amazon will be
Lets get papers from 10 years, every paper, every deal he has ever signed. Maybe we can find where some lawyer made a mistake where they didnt dot an i, where they didnt put a comma down someplace. Then we can do something. This is a disgrace. This should never ever be allowed to happen again. Thank you very much. Reporter mr. President on the russian opposition leader, hospitalized they think he was poisoned. Is that the u. S. Governments determination . President trump we havent seen it yet. Were looking at it. Mike will be reporting to me soon. Okay . Thank you very much, everybody. Neil weve been monitoring the president of the United States. He made news of a lot of issues directly responding to the judge to dismissed the trump efforts to block manhattan Districts Attorneys Office from financial records dating back to the days he with as businessman. The president termed that a fishing expedition. Pretty clear he will not turn over anything right now as this appeal process goes on
Along with the forbes media chairman. Its great to see everybody this morning. We have the Federal Reserve. With the pmi coming out. Thats where we first saw the weakness in the economy. The thing to watch for is hong kong. If you get a bad situation in hong kong its can affect the trade negotiations and a lot of other things as well. He was so adamant in terms of this extradition. The demonstrators also realize that beijing has been engaged in stepbystep. This is it for them. Thats where the protesters are. They see the future threatened by all of this. And they dont have a place to go. This is it for them. A does he really feel threatened by this affront to beijings power. The trade talks where theyre going to be be somewhat influenced by that. He thinks it is completely unlike 2015 this is a really serious Pressure Point for beijing administration i think thats pretty serious. To your point its a different crowd coming out. He feels it feels very different in terms of the crowd and