The nasdaq is tracking for its longest winning streak since december bob . Good news, were just off the highs for the day. The bad news is financials are again not participating in the rally and they need to to really move us forward. Lets take a look at the sectors, as you heard from kelly, it largely tech, semiconductors, internet stocks, the whole technical sector is doing well, Consumer Discretionary tech oriented to an extent, industrials flatter, generally underperforming and banks not even in positive territory by and large we told but the new high on the mega caps. I dont know if you realize how theyve rallied off of the march lows facebook is up nearly 78 , apple 75, amazon 70, microsoft and alphabet, even alphabet is lagging, 46 off of the lows, far outperforming the overall Market Software in general has become really important so if you look at right around here we see new highs in adobe and electronic arts, auto desk, service now, which is the Cloud Computing company. That
Zuckerberg and jack dorsey probably waking up on the wrong side of the bed after a tik tok prank of president ial proportions thats stolen the social media spotlight. Could tik tok be on the verge of cleaning facebook and twitters clocks . Weve got Team Coverage of all of this. Fox Business Apple whisperer susan li tracking the hottest headlines from apples conference. Apple bull and market tech guru on whether tim cook did enough to snuff out a brewing rebellion in his developer ranks. And top social media analyst michael packter on the new power of the social media rising star tik tok. The debate over the second virus wave raging across the globe, but south korea decidedly saying its already rearing its head again in that country. In a fox business exclusive, the man the world is turning to for a cure, dr. Andrew badley. Hes the mayo clinics covid19 vaccine and treatment Search Party Leader and hes here. Final hour of fireworks possible as the nasdaq fires towards new record glory. W
Angel funding. Those are the earliest and smallest rounds. You have series a, later funding of series b, and so on. Generally speaking, series a is still a small round, meant to fund a company for a year, possibly two. Ill give you some context. Zoom, a company we have had on the show, is worth 21 billion now. But its series a, the first round of venture funding, was 6 million. Six. Some kind of Silicon Valley record leading a series a round to a Company Called one pass for 200 million likely the biggest series a in history, the biggest investment the firm has made. One password seems like a promising country. It deals with password management and security. But 200 million . On the first round of Venture Capital . Arun joins the reporters this week. John schwartz of dow jones and katie roof who covers venture journal. One more bit of c this is seriet was 285 million. That was a series c. What are you doing investing 200 million, and you did it with some other investors as well, in a se
Welcome back for the 2019 cato surveillance conference, i am still Julian Sanchez a senior fellow here and im pleased to welcome you for the afternoon session there is more fascinating stuff happening in the world of surveillance that can be covered in fully panels and we are always glad to have a lineup of smart focus to address that range of topics in our shorter flash talks and to begin the senior counsel and director of Freedom Technology and project, this is a time where we hear a lot about the goal of putting the first but surveillance space this often creates friction with our allies when our surveillance goals may conflict and im happy to welcome that from an international perspective. applause thanks julian and hello. I am with the center for democracy and technology, ww the cdt. Org. I want to talk about the applications of America First surveillance policy. When i say America First i mean americans first, the surveillance policy on the intelligence side of the equation discr
Anymore. A lot of Global Markets are closed or for boxing day. Uk, germany, france, australia, italy and hong kong. I say it every year. Boxing day has nothing to do with boxing as a sport as a child, i always thought that u. S. Futures, we have some green arrows dow looks like it would open up about 30 points higher 10year note opening about 1. 97. New this morning, china says it is in close touch with the United States on signing a phase one trade deal both sides are 12i8 going through necessary procedures before signing despite progress on trade, tensions remain. Meantime, saying the phase one trade deal is, quote, an enormous step in the right direction. It is coming. It is coming it is done in your mind what we are going to get is what weve gotten. Phase two, i wouldnt think about it again like ever, ever no. Let it go. Gone for good oregon for the election . I think you need a change in leadership of china before we see anything significant even if trump wins in november of 2020,