Companies keep pulling ads from the social network. Starbucks and pepsico among the players. Charlie has a big scoop on the facebook story. As the coronavirus death toll surpasses another tragic milestone, and cases spike in some regions, the search for the cure presses on. Jacob glanville is star of pandemic and is here to tell us how his treatment is curing cancer and if human trials are around the corner. Plus a new front in the electric vehicle cars. Nikola motors taking orders for its Tesla Cybertruck competitor, the badger. The executive chairman is here to tell us how orders on day one are faring. Less than an hour to the closing bell. Im Cheryl Casone in for liz claman today. Lets start the claman countdown. Cheryl we begin with some breaking news this hour. Amc theaters is going to begin reopening its u. S. Theaters on july 30th in line with Disneys Mulan and Warner Brothers tenet. They originally said u. S. Theater operations would resume on july 15th. Little bit of pushback.
Is not yet known, but it does appear that fire was located in the basement of the church. No one was inside the church at the time of the fire. California senator Kamala Harris joined protesters at Lafayette Park in washington, dc. She wore a Face Covering and cap and on a twitter post senator harrison said people are in pain and we must listen. There have been violent protests across southern california. It was a fourth consecutive day of violence and vandalism in los angeles county. California National Guard members were on the streets of los angeles after the mayor called a state of emergency. We must not allow any who feast off of chaos, who hunger for division, who want to replace peaceful protest with images of a nation coming apart. We must not let them win. Several Los Angeles Police Department Patrol cars were damaged and more than 500 people were arrested during the last two days. About 25 miles away in long beach a cvs store was broken into and set on fire from the inside. T
Organizati organization, china as well as investigations of practices of Chinese Companies that are listed here in the u. S. So were up 0. 4 . 3 for the week as a whole sara straight to kayla in washington to recap what we just heard from the president including that significant announcement that the u. S. Would be terminating its relationship with the World Health Organization and sara, the president prevud that a few weeks ago saying it would be reviewing the funding it sends to the w. H. O. In the wake of what it sees as shortcomings by the World Health Organization to alert the u. S. Of some of the risks of the coronavirus. Sources tell me that one of the ways the u. S. Feels most wronged is that there was no information about asymptomatic transmission of this virus until late in the game when the u. S. Population and economy was at risk. He announced the administration would be suspending the entry of foreign nationals from china to the u. S. , that the u. S. Finds at risk to the
A round table discussion with industry executives so thats happening or about to happen at the white house, well bring you any comments that come from the white house this hour. The major averages are up for the second week in a row. You see the numbers the dow up well over 3 almost 4 in what was a holiday shortened week, the month the dow and the s p 500 up more than 4 a piece and look at the nasdac up nearly 7 , 6. 75 all up for the second month in a row so thats how we close out the month of may at least for trading. Lots of talk about today fox Business Team coverage we have blake burman at the white house, Jackie Deangelis at our news room in new york, Edward Lawrence reporting from washington, blake . We start with you on the north lawn. Reporter hi there, connell and melissa. President trump announcing at the white house several measures against china on the one hand, for chinas handling of covid19 , on the other hand, as well, for chinas crackdown on hong kong; however, as the
Some of these well known names here in the u. S. , these are chinese stocks that are listed here on u. S. Exchanges. China mobile, its up just under 1 . Youve got lenovo which, of course, is a chinese company, down half a percent. Alibaba is up one and a third percent. Jd. Com, that stock is also continuing to move slightly higher. As we look at some of these other names, alibaba Still Holding on to gapes of about 1. 5. But lets look at the semiconductors, because one would argue that they are the most exposed to what could have been yet another trade war, but it just doesnt sound like that yet. We have green on the screen. A little bit of a relief rally for intel, up two and a third percent, invidia up two percent. So thats certainly a good sign when you see that those names including other names that are bigger when it comes to, lets say, traderelated, tradesensitive stocks, everything from deere to caterpillar was that the fear was that we would start to see yet another trade war or