U. S. Markets, all three major market gages rising more than 7 . The dow with best august since 1984. Shares of zoom soaring premarket, ceo 4 billion richer in just a few hours after a huge jump in revenue for the company. An Appeals Court delivering setback to Michael Flynn rejecting bid to toss out charges against him. Amazon taking to the skies, drone delivery coming one step closer to reality thanks to the federal Aviation Administration. Mornings with maria live right now. Dagen checking global action, france factory activity slipping back into contraction, the purchase Managers Index below 50. Better use out of uk, rising above 55 showing growth. In asia overnight, markets fairly flat, south korea kospi big winner. President trump heading to kenosha, wisconsin to deliver law and order message. Cheryl casone with the headlines, hey, cheryl. Cheryl the former Vice President blaming President Trump for the uptick in violence in cities across the nation. He doesnt want to shed light,
Good to see you, melissa, live today from jacksonville, florida. Florida, the final stop on our swing state tour, out speaking to voters here in the Sunshine State the earlier today, all of this as President Trump prepares to formally accept the gop nomination later tonight back in washington. So a lot to do on a busy thursday. Fox Business Team coverage for you. Blake burman and gerri willis to start us off. Blake, you get to go fifth from the north lawn of the white house. Reporter and we have a little bit of news as it relates to no deal at all whatsoever for a phase four relief package because the chief of staff, mark meadows, and the House Speaker, nancy pelosi, spoke this afternoon, and pelosi has just put out a statement saying, essentially, that the talks once again went nowhere. This was the comment from the House Speaker a little while ago. Quote the conversation made clear that the white house continues to disregard the needs of the American People as the Coronavirus Crisis
We have blake burman at the white house. We begin with gerri willis. We finished with the s p at new record highs for first time in six months. Above the prepandemic highs. Think about that. That is the 14th record close this year. Turn to the nasdaq as well, also at a record high today, second Straight Record close for that index. The 34th record close this year. 174th record close since election day. Good news there. Market keeping an eye as you said on two big earnings reports today. One was walmart. Shares down after the nations largest employer reported eps of 31 cents a share, blowing out estimates samestoresales up 9. 9 . Online sales up 97 . Even so the stock is down. Dont know what it takes to get walmart up today. Home depot that stock up as well. Blowout Second Quarter with the sales up 23. 4 . Americans are remaking their homes as they are forced to live there, stay there, work there all the time. Finally weve been watching apple shares closely. They are higher today as the
To vote, the National Portrait gallery, National Archives and the library of congress have created special exhibits. Curators talk about the Creative Process behind the exhibits including determining goals in selecting objects. The berkshire conference of womens historians and the womens Suffrage Centennial commission hosted this event. Im martha jones, a copresident along with tie i cant miles along the berkshire conference. Im happy to be welcoming all of you to this evenings conversation, and i have to extend the special embrace to our members tuning in from all over the world today. With this event, we begin a conference weekend, the big berkes 2020, not as we planned for in baltimore at johns hopkins. Instead, were being linked together by digital sound and image. I, for one, am grateful even for this today. The year 2020 marks 100 years since the 19th amendment, Legal Protection for womens votes became part of the u. S. Ko constitution. For us as historians of womens genders and
We will go ahead and get started. The Environmental Energy Study Institute thank you for joining us back i hope everybody got all the candy. Thank you for joining us this morning we have a wonderful panel and will be learning about the Global Commission of a global call for leadership. The urgency of Climate Change may feel more acute but the issue of Climate Change has been with us for decades. Esi stated in 1988 addressing Climate Change is a moral imperative. Many scientists m Public Policy experts have been working on the issue proposing solutions i hope what were actually seeing his momentum to act there is some evidence this is the case last week i testified before the Senate Energy committee that probably would not have been the case a few years ago in Speaker Pelosi and the House Select Committee is another example. As we know now that inaction on Climate Change makes it harder and harder to achieve. We have to act now to contribute to that momentum constantly reinforce it. So