And fedex has been on a tear during the covid19 crisis along with other transportation stocks. Will the gains continue after we get a vaccine . On the barrons roundtable, al root, carlton english and jack howe. Good to see you guys. Jack, i want to start with you on the market. Tech stocks tried to get a rally going, but they just couldnt pull it off. Well, monday and tuesday they tried to get that Party Started again, and then wednesday, thursday, friday they just kind of spent those days gent9ly pulling gently pulling down steadily. And its mostly tech stocks, right . Theyve led the stock market rebound so far this year, but the five Biggest Tech Companies are now in unprecedented 23 of the s p 500. How are investors going to get more excited about these same companies . The Economic News was soso. Retail sales grew not as quickly as they had the month before, Industrial Production improved, not quite as fast as over summer. The fed said the Economic Outlook is uncertain, not exactly
Comes to the treasury market. The dollar taking it on the chin. Safe haven bid for the yen. Out yettting taken again after yesterdays slide, dragging Energy Equities with that uncertainty rains in the commodity. President trumps positive covid test and what is going on behind the scenes not the white house. Joining us is mario parker, Bloomberg White house reporter. What do we know at this moment . Mario everything is kind of unclear, given that the white house was taken by surprise with the president and first lady testing positive last night. We are starting to get some inckle sin some trickles in terms of who has negative results. We know that Jared Kushner and ivanka trump, two of the aides,nts other closest have negative tests, as well as his son barron. Right now we know that theres negative tests that have come in. We are not sure just yet how many other white house staff will be quarantined. Guy thank you very much, indeed. How on earth was the white house cut by surprise by th
Dangerous is china and we. Were thanks so very much for joining us here on to the point where my studio guests are political scientist judy Kirsten Tucker low who believes that china will do away with liberal democracy if the west allow it was to also with us is journalist felix lee who argues that europe must be hard and firm its dealings with the chinese leadership just like the chinese themselves and a warm welcome to to examine the girl who say as long as there are a concentration camps in china there can never be normal relations with that country. Thank you all 3 for those initial comments felix id like to begin with you it is not be. In a good week for already troubled relations between the e. U. And china one Senior Member of the European Parliament a green member of the Parliament Said those relations are now as bad as it any time in recent decades do you agree. Well the summit didnt show this because i mean it was a very short summit it was only virtual it between the europea
A big move from stock, consumer launch from amazon big picture. This home in tech is about a new series of overlapping platform wars tiktok versus instagram. Sws versus aftezure julia, i would argue u. S. Versus china is shaping up to be a platform war platform war, jon, what youre saying is reciprocal trade. Were seeing this between china and the u. S. The question of whether it makes sense, safe for americans to have these chineseowned Companies Operating here in the u. S. Keeping in mind that u. S. Owned companies are not allowed to operate in china. Im talking about facebook i think its interesting to see how that dynamic plays out and this question of whether or not there should betiktok, mayb going to address that issue. Sand then apple, youre referring there, of course to this battle between epic and other companies that are participating in this new coalition. And apple in this battle over that platform. And those fees, right . Well, i am talking about that, and mike, im also t
When. Top Police Officials in the u. S. City of rochester new york say they will retire following the suffocation death of a black man in Police Custody earlier this year the incident has triggered days of protests state prosecutors are now investigating the death of the departing police chief has accused critics of trying to quote destroy his integrity. Sudan has announced a 3 month state of emergency after record floods left more than 100 people dead and destroyed thousands of homes the Authorities Say rising water levels in the now river are also putting the countrys historical sites at risk. This is news from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram at b. W. News over at our website w dot com. One by one the leaders of the political opposition to bill roos are being detained or disappearing on Tuesday Morning at the border with ukraine Maria Kolesnik over reportedly ripped up her passport and prevented her own deportation kolesnik over is one of 3 women who joined forces to become