Offers a fiery review of his predecessor. Air b b filing the paperwork following a rough year for that industry intel announcing a 5 billion buy back as tech faces slumping shares it is thursday, august 20, here on cnbc. Good morning. Im dominic chu in for Brian Sullivan stock futures indicating some modest losses. The dow lower by 100 points. Thats an improvement over the last hour. S p off, the nasdaq off by about 20 points. These are losses now after chinas comments saying the country and the United States will hold trade talks in coming days after the talks fizzled. The Central Banks comments knocking the s p 500 from a new intraday high we hit the stock of the morning so far is apple, becoming the first u. S. Listed company to get a market cap of 2 trillion. Doubling valuation in just over two years. For those wondering, a 3 trillion value for apple would be at 761 per share that will happen right before the stock split. We have Geoff Cutmore in the london news room the color of t
Pole vaulted you need to understand this week is about one thing and one thing only it is about earnings first time its been like that in awhile. This is the most overwhelming week ridiculous number of Companies Report at the same time. Let me give you the game plan for navigating a confusing if not impossible to understand period all right. Its going to start with tomorrow we hear from mcdonalds. A restaurant that can thrive in this environment, right . I would be disappointed. Yet results from pfizer that should have a good quarter and want more color on their Covid Vaccine and 3 m needed a better story about how their Safety Division is on fire. Their auto business turned and china is coming back, sadly, i dont think you hadany of that we have the defense in Aerospace Company that will give a glimpse of the broader industry on wednesday. I have a descent feeling about rathion but i fear we wont hear anything good about boeing im concerned about aerospace because we havent seen trave
In reopening europes 3rd largest economy british Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the loosening of coronavirus restrictions within the u. K. On tuesday speak i can tell the house. That we would all say. Restrooms and props here. Will be limited to Table Service and dog ill use would encourage minimal stoff and Customer Contact close proximity vendors such as. Mike rogers. Soft play areas. Swimming pools and sponsors who im afraid need to remain closed for. The Prime Minister also mentioned hairdressers in the country will be able to return to work as well all of this will take place starting on july 4th johnson also spoke about continuing measures to mitigate the spread of the virus. To stay in control of virus and save lives lets keep. Staying to meet his partner of. The recent one me to where not avoiding public transport where possible where you mosque when you have to use public transport. Immediately if you have symptoms so why slate constructed to do so by any chance to som
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A coming point in the medias attitude to the governments handling of the crisis in the u. K. The 1st one occurred in mid april where fast the Financial Times and then the sunday times over the course of one weekend subjected the government performance to some set showing analysis how crucial were lead supports and terms of affecting the the accent by which most of the media were covering the pandemic. I think the Financial Times and in particular the sunday times reports were very important this sunday times report something times report was very kind of him very give a little insight into the attitude of the government in the early days of the crisis the revelation that mr johnson had not attended the 1st 5 meetings 5 out of 5 meetings of cobra the Emergency Committee which coordinates responses to crises was quote he did suggest that he didnt grip the crisis with anything like the the energy which might be expected and the other thing was of course it came from Rupert Murdochs sunday