Continuing through the pandemic. Plus what will 125 million buy you . One of the priciest deals to close in l. A what pandemic . This is thursday, august 13, Worldwide Exchange on cnbc welcome and good evening from wherever in the world you may be watching. Good thursday morning. Thank you for joining us we are the Worldwide Exchange. The exchange is what People Exchange money for stocks. That apparently is going just fine, thank you very much. Stocks up again on wednesday the s p 500 now up eight of the last nine sessions and closing in on a record high. We are six points from a new record cloeing hising high. Futures may be too far futures are mildly lower we are not down by much. The nasdaq reporting the first fullday losing streak maybe trucks should replace tech dont look now but the transport index up 11 days in a row. That has not happened since october of 1992. When end of the road by boys to men was the number one song in america. You may wonder if this may be the end of the r
Special tribunal for lebanon in the hague will deliver its verdict on august 7th find out what this means for lebanon and for those indicted for all the developments. Hello im sam is a than this is counting the cost on aljazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week the wealth of banks Prime Ministers and parish vicars built on the backs of slaves how much does britain oh in reparations millions pulled out of poverty jurong the commodity boom the pandemic could wipe out latin americas hard earned social and economic gains. Plus why a card and its missing billions the german tax darling that wasnt all that was made out to be. The toppling of slave owner will cost and stature amid the black lives matter protesters race among comfortable questions about britains role in the slave trade questions live whether britain should pay reparations for more than 200 years of free labor the transportation of more than a 1000000 africans as part of the triangle trade helpe
Deliver its verdict on august 7th find out what this means for lebanon and for those indicted follow all the developments on the. Hello im sam is a than this is counting the cost on aljazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week the wealth of banks Prime Ministers and parish vicars built on the backs of slaves how much does britain over in reparations millions pulled out of poverty tour in the commodity boom the pandemic could wipe out latin americas hard earned social and economic gains. Plus why a card and its missing billions the german tech darling that wasnt all that was made out to be. The toppling of slave owner edward causton statue amid the black lives matter protests is raised among comfortable questions about britains role in the slave trade questions live whether britain should pay reparations for more than 200 years of free labor the transportation of more than a 1000000 africans as part of the triangle trade helped build the british economy th
A major role on sesame street and the mr rogers neighborhood it doesnt appear to exist at all here in washington d. C. Because fresh up the news of one of the worst contractions of the economy in u. S. History with millions upon millions upon millions of folks facing joblessness the victims of potential sickness or even death thanks to a Global Pandemic the United States congress the senate in particular has decided to take a 3 day weekend no im not making it up yes Chucky Schumer Mitch Mcconnell an arrest and decided to take friday the 31st of july off despite the fact that the co but 19 emergency 600 dollar weekly federal Unemployment Benefits expires and you guessed it friday the 31st of july all but guaranteeing that tens of millions of americans will see their incomes drop by 50 to 75 percent with another rent payment due in just 24 hours while Mitch Mcconnell is resting his corporate job on a mint julep in. Old kentucky home reveling in the true art of irresponsibility the New Yo
Honoring a champion of Civil Rights Activism mourners in the u. S. Pay tribute to john lewis but will his body is laid to rest how will his legacy shape the black lives Matter Movement this is inside story. Of that welcome to the program im norah a life time civil rights leader in the u. S. Who inspired the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights act the last of the big 6 rights leaders led by Martin Luther king jr and hailed as the conscience of Congress John lewis is being remembered in a 6 Day Memorial Service that follows his journey through life the 17 congressman from georgia died of pancreatic cancer on the 17th of july at the age of 80 hell be laid to rest in a private. They report. A homecoming for an American Hero the body of civil rights icon john Lewis Crossing the Edmund Pettus bridge in his home state of alabama it was on this bridge in 1965 during a civil rights march by hundreds of activists that a Police Officer fractured his skull on a day that became known as bloody sunday