Will talk about later to get to senator alexanders remarks at the 10 30 scheduled time. Thank you, mister president. It is such an honor to be here and to join my colleagues in paying tribute to senator alexander, there are many that want to speak and have a few words to say. All of us wish we could do this to a background of music with lamar playing the piano. That would be the proper setting but i am so pleased to stand and honor the three terms of service in this body and the way he touched the lives of individuals in this body and millions of tennesseans. We know that he has talked about it in his remarks, he has worked with educators. He has worked with innovators. He has worked with the healthcare community, and works with entertainers, many of whom called tennessee home. When i was serving in the house and representing tennessees seventh Congressional District so many times i would look over here and i would say what is lamar not working on today because he always had such a bro
Crucial states. Markets are proceeding very cautiously. They are mixed at this hour after the dows 650point monday meltdown. We are only adding to that right now. Getting a little uncomfortably close to lows of the session. We are down 185. The low is a loss of 196 at the moment. You can see the s p is down seven but the nasdaq is holding on to some green here, up 50 points. No surprise, then, that megatech is powering the markets leaders. Could all that change tomorrow, when the top brass from facebook, twitter and google face the music in what is expected to be a contentious capitol hill hearing . Senator roger wicker is the chairman of the Senate Commerce committee. He will tell us what he needs to hear from Mark Zuckerberg, jack dorsey and sandar pichai. And breaking news out of tmobile. Forget telecom and 5g wars. Tmobile Just Launched a dual attack on cable and streaming leaders. Tmobiles ceo is here to unveil his brand new weaponry of offerings that has the stock moving higher a
Has the details. I just spoke with kirk over at isi i wanted his take. He said microsoft is firing on all cylinders, beating all three major categories, Strong Quarter across the commercial franchises it was better than the street was looking for. Kirk said growth is translated into increasing profitability. He said are enterprises willing to spend giving this backdrop and in one of those segments he mentioned 12. 3 billion up 11 . Commercial revenue gross of 20 . Intelligent cloud 13 billion up 20 . And more personal computing, up 6 shares not doing a lot in the after hours. The forecast will be delivered on the call which starts at 5 30 a. M. As josh mentioned, no guidance i am sure every one wonders what they will say about Enterprise Spending especially with the news delivered yesterday what do you make of the quarter . They hit on everything. Josh went through it across the board better, with the Cloud Services area. What we are waiting on now is what is the forecast, what do thin
Down 1. 6 yesterday, off of session lows. The dow industrials down 650 650 points, that was 2 and a quarter percent lower at 4 00 on wall street. Investors rattled over no progress on stimulus and a rise in covid cases. Its a big day for earnings, dow components merck, 3m. Caterpillar all reporting quarterly numbers this morning. We will get a snapshot of the airlines when jetblue reports and a look at big pharma when pfizer reports. The road to the white house, we hit the one week to go mark, americans are headed th to the polls in seven short days. President trump and joe biden begin the final push before election day. Stimulus negotiations losing momentum, time is running out for lawmakers to make a deal before november 3rd. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she remains opt my particular over talks optimistic over talks. Congressman tom reed told me yesterday if we dont have a deal by election day, we may not have one until february. Todays the day, my new book, the cost, trump, china
Im not running a false promise and being able to end this pandemic by flipping a switch. But what i can promise you is this, we will start on day one doing the right things. We will let science drive our decisions. We will deal honestly with the american people. Biden and his wife jill cast their ballots in wilmington today. Meanwhile, democrat, democratic Vice President ial nominee Kamala Harris held two drive in rallies in arizona. She criticized President Trump for putting the health of his supporters at risk by packing them together. Stocks tumble today because of worries that the pandemic in the u. S. And in europe will mean more restrictions on businesses and drag down the economy. The dow dropped 943 points, the nasdaq lost 426 and the s p was down 119. Early voting numbers continue to break records nationwide and if the trends hold, we could see historic levels of turnout. Our political reporter greg lee tells us whats driving the numbers. Reporter with less than one week until