Record close and we know why. I have to tell you this was just a parade of both American Ingenuity and strength there was a time when i was listening to brian i shouldnt just limit it to amazon every Conference Call last night with the exception of google was incredible the power of these companies is extraordinary and i dont think that we can actually brian ol staff ski when he talks he is the cfo of amazon, when he talks about the idea that basically we didnt know we were going to make billions of dollars more than we did. Not tens of millions, not hundreds of millions, but builds what a juggernaut. Most impressive of last night. David, i have a lot of good things to say about the others and good things to say about google, but amazon thankly is a company that basically has no idea how much money it can make. Ive never seen a company like this theres never been a company like this. Well, and the market agrees with you and investors have for a long time, jim, but they have delivered o
Toxic chemical. What you need to watch out for just ahead. Breaking overnight. Federal agents use tear gas on protesters in portland, oregon. Among them, the citys own mayor. While the president announces federal forces are being sent to other cities, like chicago, to deal with the surge in violence. Well have the very latest. Wild weather. Damaging wind and rain up and down the east coast. Thousands without power. The statue of liberty struck by lightning. This morning, a Tropical Storm watch for the texas coast, with another storm in the atlantic poised to become a hurricane today. All that, plus, the boys of summer are back. Didnt miss that one. Watched that one sail over the fence. Baseball fans coast to coast getting set to celebrate opening day. Today, thursday, july 23rd, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hey, everybody. Welcome to today. So happy that youre joining us on this thursday morning.
It is still on. President trump insists a phase one trade agreement with china is fully intact. Peter navarro claims his earlier comments were taken out of context after suggesting the deal was over. The European Commission is more confrontational. E. U. Lash out at beijing over hong kongs autonomy, disinformation, and foreign investor meant foreign investment. We are in brussels. Hard times for softbank. The Company Sells part of its tmobile stake, creating 21 billion dollars to help offset record losses in its investment business. We will have the details for you briefly. Just under one hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe. Lets take a look at futures this morning after we closed down yesterday in the u. S. And the u. S. Managed to eek out some gains. They are trading solidly higher. Dax futures are up. 6 percent. Ftse futures up about. 25 . What do you see on the gmm . Anna we have certainly been whipsawed by those comments by Peter Navarro on trade and the abil
Yeah, look, we saw the market rally and the vibs rally earlier this week. Just a terrible sign the 6 0 the vix the vix is the gauge, supposed to go in opposite direction. And spear downturns. That said, over bought as we are, its actually good. I went back to 1985 when you have periods where you are as overboard as we were, you tend to have 3 corrections and no more so lets have the 3 correction. Lets watch out for the stocks trading. David portnoy, the most important force i believe in the market by gunning the cruise ships and in gunning the airlines oil. At least his cohort was doing so watching the robin hood margin features again, this is wa we have to do. If we think the market is run by people who trade through Goldman Sachs were fools. The people active, the people trading retail, trading cruise, airline. Trading low price oils its fun for them and great. A lot use big margin calls that are coming, but the market became fun now, the reality is, and david, you know this market w
Murdered my family and squeezed. Up to 1000000 people were killed over the course of just 100 days. Most of this crowd werent even born to theyre here today to audition for a t. V. Talent show. Sure. If it will be one of those good months since. The show is called east africas got talent its similar to programs that are broadcast in europe and the u. S. In the simon is in charge of the auditions like many others here. Simon lost family members in the genocide in rwanda as young people know the history of the massacre but on days like this they try to forget about it for a while still you know what i just said. That were moving on were moving along we dont want to be held by whats up in the past we want to move on we want to look for the future and it doesnt but as you all know we are in the period of 100 days of calm the ritual and just this thing is part of it so we remember we are night and then we didnt you so we had a new ourselves and this is part of the new york about. What one o