Only given consideration to more recently because of the phenomena. Well end up meeting the ceo a couple of months or whatever after we have made an investment it puts greater burden on us for Due Diligence and for the backgrounds of the people who are involved and the experience. Its probably going to end up with some good results actually. Thats interesting. Weve had some discussions on air about the degree to which lack of persontoperson meetings means can you close on a house, can you close on a transaction, but youre saying its not necessarily a deal killer it definitely is not. I think that will be for early stage companies. The Later Stage Companies where theres more substance involved and theyve been around longer is a bigger problem. Were in the early stage, a round, b round, period i think well have less of a concern about that we also obviously are focused a lot on follow on rounds for our existing portfolio which is fairly extensive at this point hi, alan, its jon fortt, go
Outbreak in the u. S. , but new jersey reported its worst day yet. More money for Small Business as the treasury secretary and lawmakers signal additional funds will be allocated for the Small Business program, which has seen enormous demand and m. G. Firms from exxon to halliburton may lay off workers in light of the economic turm l turmoil. Well speak with the ceo of verizon about the companys effort to keep students informed while they are away from school. And the ceo of state street will join us. We have details on the Small Business relief meeting that is taking place this hour at the white house. Mike santoli is tracking the markets fading gains this hour. Ka kayla, first to you on breaking news in washington reporters are entering the roosevelt room right now where President Trump and his economic advisers are set to host a Virtual Meeting with a slate of financial industry ceos to talk about what they are doing to assist Small Businesses. The list of attendees includes some of
Unarmed Security Guard that helped confirm the shooters room. Paddock shot lu the door wounding him in the leg. Paddock then shot 200 rounds in the hallway holding up the police until the swat team arrived and blew up the door and found the shooter dead. Why did he do it, we still dont know. Next headline. 4,940,000,000,000, thats how much the value of all stocks has gone up since the election. Another one, we are only 338 points away from dow 23,000 and guess what, we will go up a little more when the market opens up today. Varney company is about to begin stuart all right, come on in jeff flock, live in las vegas. Jeff, we understand theres some talk about the shooter planning an escape that he would survive this . Give me the story. Jeff the authorities think because he placed the camera out in the hallway outside his door that he could see from the inside, that that may have been his plan to see if the coast was clear after the initial attack so that he could get down to his car wh
The eclipts is a big business story. Dozens of companies with offers. And if ever a die to buy solar stocks, buy. All of the angles covered for you coming up. Plus, treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin making a tax for tax reform tim pawlenty head of the Financial Services roundtable. What he wants to see in that plan coming up. And to our reporters covering the Solar Eclipse. Contessa brewer is in columbia, South Carolina and jane wells joins us as well but first to contessa. Reporter people are reacting now by leaving i can still see the sun partially occluded here. Its still a crescent as the moon moves out of its path and people are like, okay, been there, done that its hot outside, feels like its 15, 98 degrees with the humidity so theres been a lot of people taking a move on, but ill tell you what people paid a premium to be here i talked to people who have driven down from new york and people who drove over from macon, j. , ageorgia and all of were paying a higher price for hotels,
Action this morning. This off the back of a day where we saw slight gains for the dow and s p. Fractional decline for the nasdaq that was a better performance than we saw around the rest of the world yesterday. You could frame it as resilient as opposed to lackluster futures pointing nicely higher taking their lead from around the world where its a risk on mood today nasdaq up about 27 the dow jones up 65. The treasury note, we are back above 2. 2 on the tenyear yield. Yields just rising a bit equities rising a little bit, too. Stocks mostly higher around the world. In asia it was a bit more of a mixed picture. We saw the nikkei fall again that makes five straight losing sessions for the nikkei, something that has not happened since april of 2016. Marginally lower but it counts as a drop. As you can see, Mainland China shares mostly higher for the major sessions all eyes pointing to jackson hole, towards the end of the week where we will hear from janet yellen and mario draghi. Somewha