From facebook. Julia boorstin has been following the story. Its two reactive and slow about the hate speech. Auditors saying they watched the company make painful decisions that are serious setbacks and has not devoted enough assets to address these issues this report advocating they bring in more civil rights experts to the country, take steps to address concerns dedispute that post violating facebooks broader policies. Sheryl sandberg responding to the findings as hard as its been to expos o they echo the criticisms by the civil rights a groups behind the boycott that met with facebook management yesterday. They called the meeting disappointing. Now, facebook has said it would not fall not fold for pressure, but it does seem they could be compelled to take some of the recommendations. Julia, thank you. Lets get to steve weiss steve, it looks like facebook is under a lot of pressure when it comes to the issues of up civil rights and hate speech. It is im sticking with it ultimately i
Joining us for the entire hour is dan nathan, founder of risk reversal advisers. Welcome back to you. Sara. So theres something youre looking at about the s p 3000 level and fed meetings if you go pack to july 31st, the last time that the fed met, they cut a quarter basis points Interest Rates the first cut in ten years and the stock market was above 3,000. And and it wasnt until the trump tweet the next day that we broke down and stayed down all of augusts here we are now, expectations are for another cut, and it seems like the s p has really paused again at the same level, about 3,000. Weve got lots to discuss with dan, but lets drill down on the big stories were watching today bob pisani is tracking the big reversal leslie picker has details. Mike santoli has a special market dashboard ahead of fedexs earnings which hit after the bell and well have for you here on closing bell. A big day in oil. Oil dropped right after the open on a reuters story that saudis oil output would be full
Tariffs on china came in the wake of an 11 30 a. M. Meeting with secretary mnuchin and robert light hauser, the u. S. Trade representative, who briefs him on how things went in shanghai this week the president issuing this tweet suggesting that hes frustrated with the talks and frustrated with chinas lack of follow through and also to stop the sell of fentanyl in the United States the president saying that china had agreed to do that and it never happened and as a result, americans continued to die, so as a result, he says on september 1st, yithe united stae is going to put a small tear i have on the remaining goods coming in to our country from china. He says he looks forward to continuing positive dialogue with china and a comp help sieve trade deal and ends on a positive note saying he hopes the future between the two countries will be b bright this sets up a dynamic with the trade talks in washington which is going to have a little edge to it as the u. S. Side and the chinese sit d
S p up by a point. Nasdaq down by about 4 points. Overnight in asia, the nikkei up 0. 2 the hang seng up by a quarter percent. The shanghai up by a half percent. This is all ahead of those talks expected to resume next week between china and the United States when it comes to trade. This morning on the continent, in europe we will see equities for the major averages, the dax is flat. The cac is up by 0. 6 . The ftse is up by a quarter percent. In the treasury market, you can see at this point the tenyear is yielding 2. 031 well be getting a lot of earnings, big earnings movers in just a minute. First a developing story, the embattled governor of puerto rico will be stepping down on august 2nd the announcement coming late yesterday. He had been under pressure from protester force ne he had been under pressure from protester force ne for proteste nearly two weeks after chat messages were released crowds of demonstrators erupted into cheers after that announcement were looking at some ima
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