Their restrictions. Closer to approving a constitutional amendment that would give the president more power. And south korea is named as lebanons Prime Minister for the 4th time hes promising to rescue the very country that rejected him. How much now have all the support. European champions by munich kicked off their Champions League title defense in emphatic fasten the german club fashion athletic 4 nil at home. So nigeria 1st stop where the president is holding an Emergency Security meeting as parts of the commercial capital lagos smoke as you see billowing this is from a prison after earlier reports of gunshots again there have been almost 2 weeks of protests now which initially began against Police Brutality and. International is saying at least 12 protesters were killed in lagos on tuesday night. Manager is of course following the story from for us anything more on that fire at the prison. Come all the for the situation according to officials has been brought under control securit
Stimulus watch and of course, palantir, we are awaiting the opening trade set to begin really at any moment. Alex karp, the ceo will join us right here on cnbc immediately following the first trade, jon as we said, its been a long road a lot of filings. A lot to read about the company, voting structure, privacy, you name it. And the Business Model at large. Yeah. And its another big, big ipo but very different from snow flake, which we saw which has a ton of customers, large and small and kind of this very broad play on data in the cloud. This is a company thats dealing with big data and has just a few really huge customers, carl. And thats where well start this morning, jon. Josh lipton has more on what to expect once the first trade happens. Hey, josh. Carl, a master of creativity. That is how Ceo Alex Karp describes his company, palantir. A data miner, its software ahows customers to integrate volumes of data into a central platform where it can then be securely analyzed and interpr
Dow plunging 525 points. S p plummeting 2. 37 nasdaq nosediving 3. 02 . I got to tell you, i think this decline is healthy this market needed a beatdown if only a learning experience for people who thought it was too easy when the market is roaring, a lot of investors seem to forget the most fundamental rule, buy low, sell high they want to buy high and sell higher the problem with that strategy is when stocks go down, they go down hard. You tend to lose money faster than you make it rather than being panicked by the sell off you in a very proverse way should be cheering for it we needed this why . Because we needed to break the nasty pattern of 1999 to 2000 so many people refer to during the run the leaders never took a breather. They kept charging higher and higher until the market peaked when they collapsed. Millions of investors led to the slaughter house. I began to wonder we might be doomed to repeat the mistakes of the. Com era. The markets led by a hand full of Tech Companies b
Thats the worst performance in two weeks. The dow has been down. Nasdaq have been down five out of six the tech selloff was worst it continued down 3 led lower by stocks like apple the same old story big volatility coming. Those are really the tail thats been wagging the dog for a while. Youll see the nasdaq is lower once again the other two averages hanging in there the s p on the flat line nasdaq down another 50 points. Fur watching what is happening over the last two months they closed. Dow at the lowest level since the third. The 10year sitting at 0. 66 the story that seems to never end, tiktok. Here we go the owner bytedance applying for an export license in china as it pushes for a deal in oracle and walmart. They did not mention the pending deal and technology it was seeking to support calling the deal dirty and unfair they have no reason to approve it all of this raising questions about that prospect and what that would ultimately look like. What happened earlier in the week we
The bipartisan poster board of governors engaged the professional search firm that identified him as an outstanding candidate with the necessary background and skill set to tackle the enormous challenges facing the postal system. The bipartisan governors unanimously approved his appointment as postmaster general. Mr. Dejoy reports to the board, not the president. Another false narrative that has been a failure to provide another false narrative a failure to provide funding to the Postal Service will undermine the election. The Postal Service currently has 15. 1 billion in cash on hand, following a betterthanexpected Financial Performance during the pandemic. Rather than being down, the Postal Service revenue is actually 1. 5 billion higher this year than during the same period last year. The postal system would have funded its longterm and entire healthcare liabilities as they were incurred. Because they didnt, those unfunded liabilities now total 120 billion. Unfortunately, the 2006 p