Social Media Companies ylan mui has more on the story reporter the dojs proposal strikes at the heart of the Business Model for platforms like facebook, google and twitter, section 230 of the communications ccc act the first is what theyre calling the bad samaritan bill, for platforms that facilitate or solicit illegal activity, and the second specific exemptions for child exploitation, and actual knowledge of elicit activity the doj cannot do this alone they would need congress to act to change the law. Big tech doesnt have a lot of friends on capitol hill these days just today, republican senator josh hawley unveiled a bill that would remove text Liability Protections unless the Companies Promise to act in good faith or pay a 5,000 fine to users if they dont meanwhile, democratic senator mark warner said that he believes section 230 has allowed companies to turn a blind eye to a host of ills, but melissa, he also said hes worried that the doj is using these tools as a way to get Big
And it would obviously be fairly strong gains the week after the weakness we saw in the Broader Markets last week. Not a lot of individual news this morning, jim. But always curious as to what caught your attention. Oil at 40 makes people feel, wait a second, maybe the economy is not so bad. Maybe thats the v. We have of course an apple price target boost a couple of Companies Reported that were not disastrous thats regarded as being positive and the day traders, they dont stop at one point today, were going to have to talk about them because of a tragic instance that happened. Ive been seeing that in my twitter feed as well i think cnbc has done some reporting on that in terms of robin hood very unfortunate and well talk about that and well talk about your friend who i know you follow closely, but back to the Broader Market and back to something we spent a lot of time talking about over these last few years which is china trade. Bloomberg is reporting that they will accelerate its agr
Lets check the numbers. I mentioned where we are nasdaq was above 9,000 s p 2900 dow is better than 24,000 right now. Josh brown, the issue peer supes starting to run out. Its now peleton, zoom paypal these are tech stocks but theyre not apple. Theres a lot more happening beyond just what people usually associate with the nasdaq. Like where is all the money coming from . Take a look at the russell down 18 on the year while the nasdaq heads towards highs. You could not have a starker divergence between large cap growth and the overall rest of the market and it gets wider and wider. They are the products and services that people are using my colleague ben carson called it the peter lynch market. If people know the product and using it, the stock is probably going up by billions of dollars. Were going to talk about one of thoedse to joshs point,divergence growth versus Everything Else. Year to date is down 2 . The s p value ite is down 20 . You continue to get the divergence, whats going
And the nasdaq is indicated up by 66 points lets take a look at whats happening in the treasury market the other thing worth watching, wti, crude oil prices. Last i saw up another 7 to 31. 51, so seeing wti above 30 a barrel the tenyear note is yielding 0. 64 . Andrew thank you, becky. Hope everybody had a great weekend. We have an update as we do every morning these days on the pandemic lets give you the total numbers right now. Global cases have reached 4. 7 million with 1. 4 million right here in the United States. More than 90,000 people in the United States have now died from this virus changes are coming to our nations airports as well. The tsa reportedly preparing now to check passenger temperatures at about a dozen locations as soon as this week. Airlines have begun urging the government to take steps in an attempt to keep potentially sick people off planes and make travelers feel more comfortable flying again, which is going to be so crucial not only to everybodys health but t
Safe with investors going allin on the kind of stocks theyll be very sorry about if the good news for the past 24 hours fails to payoff. And thats how the dow surged 912 points the s p rocketed up 3. 15 . And the nasdaq 2. 44 too many of the socalled pro covid stocks you know what i mean when you look at pictures of lines at bars in ohio or wisconsin this weekend, im sure you saw them how about the packed beaches theres none left in jersey, and florida. Its clear america is reopening for business theyre putting in new rules and regulations to keep people safe, social distancing and happened washin hand washing people are ignoring them talk about better to be sorry than safe. Living in new york i know the virus is contagious. I hope the rest of the country doesnt have to find out the hard way this is reckless, but seeing the lines did make me more confident about the economy. It did seemed somehow good even though i know it could be dangerous second, we got a look at a totally reassurin