Of the surge in new cases. Ill have more on that in a moment. We are getting new information on the twitter hack. It wasnt just a handful of celebrities. 130 accounts were targeted and it appears to have been an inside job. That is serious stuff. Im not sure that Twitter Twitter is up, thats right. Im thinking of another stock. Okay, twitter is up just a fraction. It is serious stuff about twitter. Weve got an analyst on the show who says it might have been a test run for something much bigger. Time to drop your twitter account . We will ask the question and get an answer. More on that coming up, too. Lets get to the market. This week we have seen a shift away from big tech and towards smaller companies. The russell index of small cap stocks, for example, up 3 this week. The dow industrials, down just over 2 . This morning, we will open with a nice gain for the dow, up maybe 100 points, 26,600. Look at the nasdaq. Theres a bounceback for you, up 100 points at the opening bell. All righ
New claims actually rose. And 17 Million People are still drawing Unemployment Benefits. I believe thats a negative for the overall market. Get to that in a second. Look at this. Amazon, apple, google, facebook, the day after the top executives took a pounding from the politicians, these stocks went up during those hearings. They are down in preMarket Action this morning. Hold on. All four of these giants will report their earnings later this afternoon. This is big techs big day. My opinion, these Companies Need blowout numbers to sustain their very lofty stock prices. Watch it unfold at 4 00 this afternoon on this network. Overall, i got a lot of red ink to show you. The dow is looking for a loss of over 300 points, down maybe 40 for the s p and off 131 on the nasdaq. Heres one of the negatives thats hurting the market. Emergency virus relief. It runs out in 24 hours. Congress is divided over how to replace it or extend it. Investors want more stimulus but theyre not sure they are goi
And irelands Pascal Donahoe is chosen at the next eurogroup president. He says the focus is to bring back jobs. I will play my part in working with all members of the eu eurogroup to make sure this group makes the contributions. The challenges are great but we will prevail and will overcome we kick off the show this morning with a major oil report crossing the latest is that the organization has bumped up its 2020 Oil Demand Forecast today but it has warned that the spread of covid19 has posed a risk to the outlook. Steves been pouring through this document and has all the analysis ill be honest, not every page i think its 81 pages i have from our friends at the iea. Its pretty much what the doctor told us oh, gosh, we interviewed him on stn a few weeks ago. The situation at the moment is its halftime in the year, of course theyre hoping for better out of the second half of the year. The commentary is casting a shadow and quite interesting. Saying, look we think things are going to reb
Doses ready to ship once they get the green light and speaking of green light, joe biden wants to go ahead and raise Corporate Taxes, he is tapping his inner Bernie Sanders and outlining his economic plans using terms like fair share and calling for an end to what he calls shareholder capitalism. We are all over that story you can bet. We may hear the president s response to mr. Bidens plan shortly, he will be leaving for an event in florida this hour. We expect he will speak to reporters before boarding marine one as he likes to do and you will certainly see that right here when it happens. You will also see very little let up in the tech rally, despite theyre down day overall, the big tech names holding their own with more record gains. Amazon, it is hit an alltime high for six days in a row. Not bad. Apple, not much of a pullback of the stays above 380 a share, same story for microsoft, not much of a drop there, for microsoft still at 213 box. Facebook is above 240, despite constant
Miami is extraordinary. Francine it is. What we are seeing in the u. K. , ester 10 daysc ago. It seems authorities have a better handling to track and lockdown onng this this city instead of everything. Very different in the u. S. Where cases and deaths are rising and at record highs. Tom amazing to see the acceleration in the death rate in some of these states. For our international audience, it is in america, riveted by this virus. Ritika morning. Coronavirus milestones climbing in the u. S. , new cases climbed over 60,000 in one day for the first time. Florida,lifornia, Record Number of deaths. New york city events requiring permits have been canceled through september. The u. S. Is set to take the next step in a battle with france over taxes on technology giants. The u. S. Will impose tariffs on 700 million in french goods including wine, cheese and handbags. Biden has laid out a plan that will make americas economy better than it was before, he says. To boostdate wants manufacturi