Minneapolis, mourners have been paying tribute to floyds memory. The public viewing in houston coincides with a couple of things. One, a Court Appearance with the man accused of murdering him and a roundtable discussion thats about to kick off right now at the white house between President Trump and Law Enforcement officials from local, state and federal levels. This just hours after democrats unveiled a Sweeping Police Reform bill. We are going to take you to the white house when the president speaks but we have it all covered today along with two powerful guests. Morehouse College President david thomas, he taught at Harvard Business school and is here to answer not just the question has Corporate America failed black america, but how to fix that starting today. Plus, former Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile joins us on the impact of the race issue on the 2020 president ial race. The customer amazon jeff bezos says hes happy to lose. And wait until you see the ceiling
You are watching Worldwide Exchange here on cnbc good morning welcome to the show. Im dominic chu with me for the entire hour is analyst lindsay bell, also a cnbc contributor. Well get to lindsay in a moment breaking news as u. S. Stocks look to open sharply higher after a rocky day on wall street the dow falling almost 1,800 points to march in march when it fell almost 13 . You can see with the time lapse those moves. The dow is now down more than 7 at this stage. S p down nearly 6 , nasdaq down 3 all on track to snap win streaks with the major average this week alone. Yesterday, we continued to watch technology microsoft, facebook, apple, amazon, alphabet all closing sharply lower. Shedding more than, get this, 269 billion in market value this is the nasdaq 100 etf versus the russell 2000 small term etf over the last couple of weeks, w we saw all of that create tiffity in those names and small caps and underperformance there. A trade well watch specifically play out today around the
Board. We are off the lowest levels of the day. The dow is at 25,290 there is the nasdaq. Concerns about the virus and new hot spots around the country are part of the conversation as i look at moves, i see a lot of buys that suggest youre optimistic about the reopening of this country. Yeah, thanks scott. When i look at my portfolio as a whole, i have a heavy bias to the nasdaq 100 the qqqs which have done so well i think that as we are reopening that if you look at technically, a lofts tt of stocks like south six flags, they all look similar. They are starting to make higher lows and higher highs. I think as the reopening happens, this is where theres still risk but we think its compensated risk longer term to own some of these epicenter names that we think as the summer happen, as the reopening is happening, i dont feel comfortable just owning the nasdaq 100 and sitting in apple and microsoft and amazon i want to diversify that this is buying low feels like. Theres a million reasons
The dow is looking for about a 300 point gain right there at the opening bell. S p up about 34. Look at that nasdaq go. Technology is doing well, up 104 points. Thats premarket for the nasdaq. Now, lockdown winners. Clearly emerging. Lowes, the Home Improvement people, headquartered in North Carolina. Profit up 28 . We stocked up for the lockdown. Target, they really organized their online delivery and store pickup operation, lumped together under digital sales, up a whopping 141 . Walmart, same story. Stockpiling helped them, too. Amazon, kings of the online selling business. Boy, did they clean up. The stock is near a record high. And the netflix, well, they are the kings of the streaming business. What else are we supposed to do when we are ordered to stay home for weeks on end . There are a lot more virus winners and we will go through them throughout the show. Meanwhile, the revolt continues all across the country. Businesses are defying the authorities and opening up despite the
Points. But as more people go back to work, could the sudden tech spending boom that was triggered by the workfromhome movement, could it disappear as quickly as it began . Chairman and ceo of adobe, this is a Favorite Software company of small and medium sized businesses, he is here, first on fox business, on whether we all kind of borrowed from future tech spending to ramp up connectivity and what it might do to tech stocks coming up. With the memorial day holiday soon upon us, will americans give us that once in a lifetime visit to europe or somewhere else for a Summer Vacation closer to home . The ceo of the Worlds Largest travel Marketing Company says one hotel in particular thats announced it will reopen is proving to be the biggest vote of confidence the nation could get. Which hotel and where it is, coming up. Plus, Hedge Fund Hot dogs, pandemic rebound stocks and charlie breaks it on directvs future at at t. Less than an hour to the closing bell, lets start the claman countdow