We will talk to him about what is ahead for 2020. He is the amazon executive who resigned over what he called vein of toxicity running through company culture. Those stories in a moment but first, tech earnings trickling out today. Abigail doolittle is with us. Abigail there was some action later in the day. Another sleepy day for much of the day for stocks. Record highs for the s p 500 and the nasdaq. News came out from pfizer, another headline that pfizer, the doses they will be able to provide for this year expected to be half of what had been anticipated. When the headline came out, it read very bearish. Stocks initially took a leg lower. The s p 500 going down three tens of 1 . A decent intraday move. The s p 500 finishing down for the first time in three days. The nasdaq, however, managing to keep a small gain and a record high on the date. Pfizer really slipped, 1. 7 . The barclays bond etf up 8 10 of 1 . Tones of riskoff, uncertainty around the pfizer news. Pretty interesting,
Spiral of difficulties that 2020 has posed the need to adapt so be called to me very quickly its also speeding up this process of digitalisation and the country out also speeding up the evolution of. The tech sector and indeed the legislation as well because too much of the rate at which that is progressing is was. Down hawkins reports now you watching out internationally to have a company well back again at the top of the. Join me every thursday on the alex simon show and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you then. Hello and welcome to cross talk were all things are considered on people about continuity or change this is whats being asked when considering a potential by Foreign Policy trump made it a point to undo obamas legacy when biden do the same to trumps like this or is this all only rhetorical continuity drives Foreign Policy not the occupant in the oval office. To discuss this and more im joined by my guest peter who is
The Ohio State University and senior fellow at Cato Institute. Finally, Jackie Schneider at stanford university. Thank you very much for the introduction. I am grateful for events hosted back in the before days. I was able to meet with colleagues and talk about ideas that make their way into this book eventually. Im grateful to be on our panel like this, i think i cited most, if not all of you in this book. It is my privilege to share this with you. This book comes out of my personal experiences in uniform in the u. S. Navy so i thought i would start with this. The first is back in 1999, my first job in the navy, i was a targeted officer working at the u. S. Headquarters. A short air campaign against the modern state ended with no fatalities to a lot of people, this looks like a big Success Story for technology, new american way of war. Revolutionary wars but we made a lot of mistakes including blowing up the chinese industry. This was a mistake that was coordination failures, lots of
Outburst that was ongoing, christina. A very dangerous situation. Officials were able to get it under control this morning in the city of st. Louis. A very upset an irate inmate attacked an officer early this morning and everything escalated Romare Bearden take a look at this disturbing video. Authorities say the inmate attacked the guard and the guard was jumped by other detainees. Nobody was able to break free from this jail by 115 inmates did take part in the chaos breaking out Windows Setting fires and throwing things on the fourth floor of the building. This is what people could see from outside the jail. This facility is located in downtown st. Louis near other businesses like the city hall in a stadium where the cardinals play in several new stations. As for the Correctional Officer who was attacked, he went to the hospital for some injuries. He was pretty banged up but he has since been released so some good news there. Eric and arthel. Eric meanwhile in terms of the number of
The bill awaits signoff from the president. Akron turns up the heat. France threatens to veto a brexit deal if it does not like the terms, piling pressure on the e. U. Not to make further concessions. Welcome to the program, everybody. 7 00 in london. 8 00 in paris. Lets look at the futures. We are fairly flat on futures. The young stock x50 futures flat. Yesterday, we saw some decent gains for the ftse, up by more than 1 and that was a standout compared to the rest of europe which was more mixed. It was mixed in the u. S. Session as well. We did actually see a bit of a late rally in u. S. Equity trading, up to some of those new highs we were talking about in headlines. All of that in the context of the hopes and dreams around u. S. Stimulus. The concern about what can legitimately be done in the shortterm and a lot of hope around vaccines. Perhaps oncent day some parts of the equities space and a late rally in the u. S. Yesterday and we are now pausing. We are pausing somewhat here. W