Good evening. My name is trevor fromhe boston book festival. Thank you so much for joining us this afternoons 2020 session, can business save the world. I would especiall like to think everyone including a donation en they register for this free event. It would like to purchase the book by todays presenters, were also suppoing independent bookstores in the bbf, which made it easy. Just cli by t book linkt the bottom of the screen. No i like to talk about them moderator, cofounder of fsg and the author of influential publicions on sharealue catalytic herapy, strategic evuations and impact insting. Thank you trevor and it is wonderful to be here and these ar two outstanding womanhood just written two books the long and a book shelf. Where used to thinking about business as being the source of so any problems in the world today. Its quite refreshing to he a panel that talks abo whether business can save the world and while that is a large and openended question. Trevor our two authors tod
Giving a lot of insight well be bringing you results apple, amazon, alphabet and facebook all report their earnings coincidence those four Companies Make up about 16 of the s p 500. Worth about 5 trillion combined and come a day after the heated antitrust hearing. Wolf, this is a good read in for you. For sure. There was meant to be three of those. Facebook got moved from yesterday to today after that hearing. After the close, we are waiting for two economic reports it is thursday, that means weekly jobless claims. Another 1. 4 million filed for the first time last week the first read on Second Quarter gdp. The economy likely contracted by 34. 7 . Both jobless and gdp due at 8 30 eastern time you look at those numbers down 34. 7 from the estimate we know it, weve been hearing from companies and what has been happening. Thats a lot of news to digest ahead of all of these reports. You are watching futures under a little pressure. Lets look at where things stand now. Dow down 206 points,
Plus an increase in News Coronavirus cases, declines are being led by tech. Microsoft, amazon and apple all sharply lower today. Thomas peterffy is the chairman of Interactive Brokers hes our closer today coming on the heeled of the tieup will he now sell his companies well ask hem later in the show. Clearly coronavirus, again still only down just over 1 the markets overreacting i think if you do the math, basically if you lieu that only represents about 1 of the earns of the company no indication that this is nothing but a shortterm problems lets get on the base stories. Seema mody Steve Liesman tells us what the fed is talking about. First, lets start with seema. That safe haven play is certainly evident in different parts of the market. One standout is shares of the post 5 a new record high, up 7. 6 certainly outperforming on a day. A pause in the u. S. china trade relations. According to our ceo deere did address the coronavirus, expecting freight costs in the Second Quarter relate
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Of hong kong. Oil strengthens after a shakeup in saudi arabia. Family is in charge of energy for the first time. Kathleen a quick reminder of how u. S. Stocks ended the session on friday. The fed chair speech later in the day with some of the big drivers. You can see is narrowly mixed. Leak. Big there is some good news. Points. 69 nasdaq a little nowhere. Suffering after news about the investigation. Basically, it was about jobs. 25,000 with temporary census records. Those are the parts that initially got a bond value. You have average Hourly Earnings following yearoveryear. Unemployment at a 50 year low. There is no recession on the doorstep. Not a 50 basis point cut. At any mate, jay powell confirmed that saying that he thinks that the labor market looks strong. Pointing to a rate cut, but nothing to get the markets going after all of that. Pointing a little bit to the positive side. How are things looking in asia . Asia futures are pointing to mixed and muted start this morning and