Open up higher, just a little higher, and yes, we are still very close to record highs. The dow is going to be up maybe 15, 20 points. Very small gain for the s p, 11 points up for the nasdaq, but up is the operative word of the day. Now look at this. Street battles in hong kong. That is the right word to use. Water cannon was in use, police pointed their guns. There is a report of a shot fired in the air. Chinas leader has a growing problem in his own backyard. Tomorrows october 1st. Chinas big day. The last thing xi jinping wants is more violence in the form of british colony. Big protests are planned. We will be looking at the impact of this on china trade and yes, on your money. Look at this, too. Huge fire at a new billion dollar train station in saudi arabia. That comes on the heels of the attack on the big oil refinery there, and the shooting death of a saudi general who was a bodyguard to top saudi leaders. Plus a reported attack on an American Military installation in somalia.
As it pushes to make its own semiconductors. How this could be a game changer for future gadgets. Shares of facebook and google dropping on the heels of another president ial rant against u. S. Social Media Companies. Here is what President Trump told foxbusiness. We should be suing google and facebook, and perhaps we will, ok . To talk more about the reaction, lets go to our reporter in new york. Shares did react to the president s remarks. What happened . Absolutely they did. You look at facebook and google, you just saw the share prices. Down 0. 6 , so not anything huge. Minimal still pretty minimal, but we clearly saw before markets opened the stocks react off these headlines. He did also attack twitter. Twitter rose today. This harkens back to the conversation we have been having over antitrust laws. Everything we have heard over the doj investigation, ftc investigation, this is something here to stay. We are probably going to be hearing more about this, not just in the democratic
Reporters and they get to spin what happened. You mightve been watching last night, and you mightve came out with different conclusions. They get to do it all again in the spin room. There are about 600 yourjournal. Theres wifi, things like that. So thats going to happen again tonight. This is night two, but its still the first debate. There are going to be ten new candidates on stage. The stage is on the debate hall which is across the road from where i am, and thats going to repeat itself tonight. That is about six hours from now. And it is also going to be the spin and the analysis afterwards. Now one thing we are sure to hear about tonight are the two huge decisions from the Supreme Court that are going to have major implications for voters in the coming elections. In a 54 decision, the Supreme Court rejected the administrations proposal to add a Citizenship Question to the 2020 census saying there was a contrived reason behind the white house wanting that information. The courts e
a business. they re using the language of free speech and the public interest and discourse to make their actions sound good. what s really happening here is they re facilitating a system that will allow them to continue to get an incredible amount of attention off of someone like president trump while also removing themselves from blame for putting his most hurtful stuff out there. i think what s also really important to understand, a lot of these memes that we see go viral, go viral not necessarily on the platform they re on, the facebook pelosi deepfake video did not take off until outlets like us began to report it. what i worry about is if you re putting a label on a tweet that you know is going to cause some trouble, right, it s going to be a perfect way for other outlets, other platforms to spot a tweet it knows will get a lot of attention and get it out there. for me this is not a free speech issue. and we should be very careful. there are a whole lot of people who are just u