Considerably and here is where things stand right now as we. Bring you out to the big board obviously the magic number 2. 70 and the 2 people that are vying for that office are stuck really to 64 for biden hes obviously much closer to 2. 70 donald trump there at 2. 14 the big states where watching tonight. Our georgia and pennsylvania, both of which see joe biden surging donald trump still has the lead this map from our broadcast partners with the Associated Press has a light red for pennsylvania meeting trump is still leading a light red for georgia meaning trump is still leading however a click on georgia where there is now a razor thin lead for donald trump we zoom in we scroll over and with 16 electoral votes at stake, you can see donald trump here still has the lead. But it is fewer than 2000 votes. And that is with 99 of the vote counted. So still votes out there still looking through all those mail in ballots because of the pandemic so many of them to sort through, but this is a
U. S. Took preemptive action in terms of export controls for the city. Yvonne the one thing the chief executive has said is u. S. Sanctions will not scare us. That is the latest response from carrie lam. Given what weve heard from the u. S. Recently when sanctioned chinese officials over the security law, and also now as you mentioned, paring back trading benefits that hong kong has enjoyed with the u. S. As well. The market seems to be overshadowed by better data. Pretty early when it comes to pmi data in china that came out at the top of the hour. It seems like at this point its really about the fundamentals more than the politics that is driving this rebound we are seeing in risk assets today. Look at the asiapacific benchmark, up 1 . Set for the best quarter since 2009. Still, asian stocks have not really recouped most of the losses we saw in the First Quarter, but certainly u. S. Futures pointing positive as well. The hang seng still up 194 points despite what we have been hearing
Just like this miserable quarter. The house of pain the s p shedding 1. 60 . The nasdaq declined 9. 5 the Dow Jones Industrial average had its worst quarter ever the craziest thing, though, truly crazy, do you know it could have been a lot worse. All sorts offer stocks have roared since the bottom a week ago. S p rose 1. 9 last week. Were leaving the quarter with almost as much hope certainly we had it than despair. How is that possible when the pandemic is raging and the entire economy is in dire straits . This decline was vicious as anyones ever seen it. Investors tend to regroup. They figure out what they can make peace with, but whats too toxic to touch the ones they made peace with have stabilized and can actually rally on good days, but they may not have bottomed. You know exactly what time talking about. Days like today theyre going to give up the ghost a little bit theres some terra firm a there for some of these companies. The question now, are the stocks that led us in last w
President and ceo of the Consumer Technology association and he is our guest this week on the communicators. What is the cta and who do you represent . Guest first, thanks for having me. Its great to be back. The Consumer Technology association is nonprofit trade association representing over 2000 American Technology companies. We produced the greatest, finest, coolest, most amazing event in the world and that is the ces health each january in las vegas. Host we will get to see us in the moment but who are some of the never companies . Guest everyone you would expect to see when you walk into your local best buy, but we also have sony and apple and you name it 80 are Small Businesses but 20 of the big ones with everyone from google to airbnb to lift, the disruptors as well as companies starting out with new Technology Startups as well. Host you take policy positions . Guest yes, we do. We are very strong and clear on what polly positions we take. We are strong at certain areas and we s
Which ones were more important than which ones had a greater role to play and which ones have been most helpful in remembering the holocaust again and in some levels the idea of you know im not coming if i dont get to speak is almost childish well that is your news update ill be back at the top of the out with a roundup of the headlines see that. Greetings and sell you taishan. Welcome to 2020 hawk watchers i hope i hope you all had a beautiful fun safe new years celebration with your favorite Family Friends and your pets i have missed you will admit ive missed you all so what so lets ask ourselves now though what has been happening since we last saw each other well it appears that just a few days before we were drinking champagne and kissing strangers in times square the wheelers and dealers inside the white house and the pentagon decided it was a good time to drop some bombs on iraq and syria once again last sunday the guardian reported that according to the pentagon the attacks were