This morning, well break it all down the president s response, the economic fallout and the latest efforts to control the pandemic. Our guests, the nations top expert on infectious diseases, dr. Anthony fauci and treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin. The pointman on the economic response. Plus, the powerhouse roundtable on the political fallout. Announcer from abc news, its this week. Here now, chief white house correspondent, jonathan karl. Good morning and welcome to this week. We want to get right to the latest developments on the coronavirus pandemic. There are now over 156,000 cases confirmed across the globe. And more than 5800 deaths. Spain is now in lockdown. France and israel are closing restaurants and other nonessential businesses. And here at home, the numbers continue to climb. Take a look at this map from last week, and now there are more than 2900 known cases in 49 states and washington, d. C. Thats every state except west virginia. At least 59 deaths have been reported. Our
Uber and lyft went on public with much fanfare. What does 2020 have been store . The s p 500 returning 46 so far this year. The last time we saw these gains was 2009 with the index returned 60 . The breakdown for what is driving this is michael regan. What is fueling this massive rally . Mike mostly chipmakers. Lam research. There has been talk about this rotation out of growth into value. Sells whatcell happened. It wasnt a great year for growth for most chip stocks. It is about the next big thing. What are the next big things . 5g, a lot of chips needed for that. Is in early stages. Machine learning, ai, there is a lot of optimism tilted around these innovations. The Cloud Computing arena has still not completely matured. The next big thing used to be social media, google, facebook, and those have matured to some degree. People are looking forward to that next big bump up in Tech Innovation we will see in 5g and iot and on and on and on. Taylor i want to look at this chart im showing
System as it ditches ups and fedex. The year that was. We check out how Big Tech Companies apple and facebook fared in 2019 and how each is set up for the new year. We begin with a look at tech in the markets, most notably, semiconductors. We see that chipmakers bottomed out nearly a year ago and have been on a riproaring rally since then. Micron adding to that sentiment, as the Company Reported firstquarter earnings wednesday. Micron impressed wall street with a strong outlook of between 4. 5 4. 8 billion dollars in revenue. Shortly after the Company Reported, i got insight from Wedbush Securities analyst matt bryson, who joined me on the phone after the analyst call. Matt they are seeing tightness in certain areas. Also, they are calling the bottom for memory in general. They think this Current Quarter is going to be the bottom of the cycle. That fits with the tightness in certain areas. And very much parallels the guidance they gave for gross flat margins, which suggests that prices
Logistics partners ups and fedex. Tech out how big Cap Companies apple and facebook fared in 2019 and how each is set up for the new year. A look at tech in the markets most notably semiconductors, taking a look at the stock index, we see that chipmakers a bottomed out nearly a year ago and have been on a rally since then. Chipmaker micron adding to that they reported firstquarter earnings this week. Have a strong outlook between four and a half and 4. 8 million in revenue. Shortly after the Company Reported i got insight from the whorities and analyst joined me on the phone. They are seeing tightness in certain areas. Also they are calling the bottom for memory in general. They think this Current Quarter will be the bottom of the cycle. That fits with the tightness. It fits with the fact that they it also very much parallels the guidance they gave for flat gross margins, which again suggests that pricing is normalizing finally. Does this have any implications for an expansion of capac
We explore amazons Delivery System as it ditches ups and fedex. The year that was. We check out how Big Tech Companies apple and facebook fared insystem as it 2019 and hs set up for the new year. Tech in with a look at the markets, most notably, semi conductors. We see that chipmakers bottomed out nearly a year ago and have been on a riproaring rally since then. Micron adding to that sentiment, as the Company Reported firstquarter earnings wednesday. Micron impressed wall street with a strong outlook of between 4. 54. 8 billion dollars in revenue. Shortly after the Company Reported, i got insight from Wedbush Securities analyst matt bryson, who joined me on the phone after the analyst call. Seen tightness in certain areas. Also, they are calling the bottom for memory in general. They think this Current Quarter is going to be the bottom of the cycle. That fits with the tightness in certain areas. And very much parallels the groep the guidance they gave for gross flat margins, which sugg