Apple is above 467. 77 making it the first u. S. Company to have a market cap above 2 trillion, a discussion a few moments ago about tim cook and how he has led stewardship of the company through all kinds of cross currents josh lipton joins us to talk more about that. Josh, its funny to look at that change of market cap and think back to some of the more cautionary calls weve gotten in the past few weeks from the likes of b of a who worry about margin pressure on phones, margin pressure on services, less impact from the buyback and so forth yeah. Listen, you look at this recent run, carl, obviously they had those earnings in late july that blue past the streets expectation. You saw strong growth in sales of the new low cost iphone sc. You can chalk this recent run to a few big trends one, theyll say listen in Uncertain Times cash is king and obviously apple has a lot of it, net cash position of 81 billion and counting also, that work from home trend is clearly helping apple or at leas
Washington and the world talking, microsoft eyeing an acquisition of tiktok and is this comes after President Trump threatened to ban the app in the u. S. Over security concerns. The president made an about face and gave microsoft the go ahead to proceed with the deal josh lipton has the very latest. So, melissa, President Trump also weighing in here. Take a listen to what he had to say today. It will close down on september 15th unless microsoft or somebody else is able to buy it and work out a deal, an appropriate deal, so the treasury of the, really, the treasury, i guess you would say, of the United States gets a lot of money so, why is microsoft interested in tiktok well, its a wildly popular app with 100 million users already here in the u. S. Engagement trends are strong analysts note that users already spend over an hour a day on the app. Patrick moorhead emphasizes two broad reasons why this could make strategic sense one, he argues microsoft is relatively week in Consumer Ser
Well be getting tomorrow. The nasdaq, as i just mentioned, outperforming once again those big names, netflix up 5 1 2 , tesla, amazon seeing strong gains as well with just 59 minutes left of trade. We are higher still on the s p but not on the dow anymore the nasdaq remains in the lead up to 0. 9 coming up on the show, shares of draft kings have doubled since they began trading in april. Today they announced a new way to bet on one of americas most celebrated fourth of july events well discuss with ceo jason robins coming up dennys, new effort to raise cash whats facing the Restaurant Industry in these uncertain times. But lets focus on the big stories were watching today first of all mike santoli, meg tirrell, pfizers encouraging vaccine news and highlights from the fed news minutes ago. Breaking news on apple josh has it for us hey, josh. So wilf, more apple Stores Closing as covid19 cases rise specifically apple saying its going to reclose 30 Additional Stores in the United States t
Hurricane at sandy. The president will join president clinton and a monday afternoon campaign appearance. Mitt romney has scrubbed his appearances today, instead spending the next two days in ohio. Just over one week ago in the campaign. We will be talking about early voting on the washington journal. We want to begin with the what this question. What if it is not decided on election day . What if there is a recount or multiple recounts . Lets begin with some news of the morning. The front page of the New York Times. Marty it is now counted by county. It is now county by county. There is also this from the washington post. Va. Even as being scrubbed for a number of candidates. The scheduled destruction did not stop the two candidates from delivering attacks on each other yesterday. The president of using his of parents to accuse mitt romney of raising taxes on middle class when he was governor of massachusetts. The question we are focusing on this morning is, what if there is an electi