Slightly as the drugmaker did say it will seek that approval for an emergency use for its vaccine by late november. As carl mentioned, wall street looking to snap a threeday losing streak. September retail sales delivering a big beat. Futures up this morning. Carl david and leslie, a couple of things working in the bulls favor today. Three days down. A little bit of room to bounce back on the upside, david. But futures were slightly negative, then we got that open letter from pfizer, saying that we could be looking at potentially a request for an eua by mid to late november and retail sales with that blowout number for the month and year on year the figures, david, reflect a consumer that has put together a nest egg during the course of the summer, and that is continuing to provide some momentum for the consumer. It is funny, i go back to that interview i did with david berman of maybe six weeks ago already, but somebody who tracks retail sales, more closely perhaps than anyone. And in
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
Family back at home in the ukraine. His cofounder, brian acton meantime, got turned down for jobs at facebook and twitter. The result, the two of them after leaving yahoo started a messaging service that anyone could afford. Just days ago he found himself eating chocolatecovered strawberries at Mark Zuckerbergs house on valentines day and striking a deal that will make him and his 50 employees very, very rich. So how will facebooks acquisition of whatsapp impact its competitors . I spoke with ben thomson, an author, who joined me from taiwan and Andreessen Horowitz partner benedict evans. I asked them if whatsapp is worth the price tag . Its a bit like the instagram acquisition. Was instagram worth 1 billion or 1 of facebook at the time . The question for Mark Zuckerberg is around maintaining share engagement and share of social activity. Whatsapp now has 450 million active users, 70 of them active every day. That is a significant advantage of facebook users. Whatsapp is taking a big c
Family back at home in the ukraine. His cofounder, brian acton meantime, got turned down for jobs at facebook and twitter. The result, the two of them after leaving yahoo started a messaging service that anyone could afford. Just days ago he found himself eating chocolatecovered strawberries at Mark Zuckerbergs house on valentines day and striking a deal that will make him and his 50 employees very, very rich. So how will facebooks acquisition of whatsapp impact its competitors . I spoke with ben thomson, an author, who joined me from taiwan and Andreessen Horowitz partner benedict evans. I asked them if whatsapp is worth the price tag . Its a bit like the instagram acquisition. Was instagram worth 1 billion or 1 of facebook at the time . The question for Mark Zuckerberg is around maintaining share engagement and share of social activity. Whatsapp now has 450 million active users, 70 of them active every day. That is a significant advantage of facebook users. Whatsapp is taking a big c
The c. E. O. Is joining facebooks board. This is a guy who grew up on food stamps and was so poor he could not afford to call his family back at home in the ukraine. His cofounder, brian acton meantime, got turned down for jobs at facebook and twitter. The result, the two of them after leaving yahoo started a messaging service that anyone could afford. Just days ago he found himself eating chocolatecovered strawberries at Mark Zuckerbergs house on valentines day and striking a deal that will make him and his 50 employees very, very rich. So how will facebooks acquisition of whatsapp impact its competitors . I spoke with ben thomson, an author, who joined me from taiwan and Andreessen Horowitz partner benedict evans. I asked them if whatsapp is worth the price tag . Its a bit like the instagram acquisition. Was instagram worth 1 billion or 1 of facebook at the time . The question for Mark Zuckerberg is around maintaining share engagement and share of social activity. Whatsapp now has 45