Robots to assist in social distancing well talk to the president of George Mason University about that schools hightech Higher Education plan power lunch starts right now thank you. Lets take a look at where we stand with the markets at this hour the dow and the s p are on track for their first weekly declines in a month its now down for the second week in a row. Down another 92 points today big piece of that, check out apple down again today now down about 4 for the week the stock is still up 90 from its 52week low. Its been a rough slog for apple. The bioteches are weighing os the nasdaq you can see the two themes playing out now as we look to close out the week health care and technology, the underperformers today. Theres only one sector in the green. Its Consumer Discretionary and just by a hair tyler. Thank you. Lets send it over now to kayla for news about the other story that is driving the markets today and that is those rising tensions between United States and china. Kay kayl
Welcome to power lunch. Heres where we stand with the markets now. Look at this the dow here right near session highs, higher by more than 300 points that was after yesterdays big market comeback really starting staging momentum in the afternoon. Tech driving the rally today nasdaq up. And check out defense names like lockheed martin. Both hitting record highs today. Higher lockheed by 2 . Northrup by more than 2 despite the fact stocks are rallying right now, slowdown fears are still looming like a dark cloud over wall street. Steve liesman joins us with a rapid update on gdp. The numbers in the trailing quarter were good. But what is the future well, the trailing squaurt is where the action was this time around added inventory and this is the most boring part of economics, but may be the most influential. We had a run off and it ran off more in the Second Quarter remember the 2 from the government when it first came out . Were down another tenth when others were down another tenth to
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