You have to have that looked out. You guys are in the south bay. Were in mountain view. I have to ask you, with kids all around the world and 6 million here in california and your kids and my kids not able to go to school, what kind of growth have you seen on khan academy. Weve seen our traffic, depending on the day of the week, 250 more normal and parents are 2 x and teachers are 5 x so we have seen a step up. How about the time spent learning. Precovid there were minutes and now it is closer to 90 million minutes per day so this is gone up. That is astronomical growth. Everything is free. Your math and science and humanities lessons, all free. Yeah. Were not for profit. You own khan academy as much as i do and were Public Charity and people thinkcah becaus somh the internet, it looks free and then you see adds that another 2. 99, youll get this. That not khan academy. We have folks of all levels, so people in a position to donate, we appreciate it. Everything is free and noncommercia
Pot is on sale in illinois the ceo of a cannibas company will join us power lunch starts right now welcome to power lunch on this first thursday of the new year check out all three of the major indices here the dow up about 200 points with the highs up. 63 . The nasdaq composite up three fourth the russell the outlier in the red. This is the semiconductor jumping 1 its having its best day since december 12th. Well have more on that later. Can this rally keep going in 2020 bob is at the New York Stock Exchange looking at the challenges that lay ahead. The important thing is were here but the question is can we sustain it here in 2020. I want to show you how Different Things were compared to this period last year first off, january 1st the market was pricing in an earnings recession stocks were cheap the recession didnt happen. The economy is still strong but stocks have gotten expensive 18 times forward earnings. Thats way above normal. The issue is whether we can return to earnings gro
2020 fresh economic stimulus from beijing adding to the optimism but under the surface the russell 2000 seeing its worse day in a month and we got some mixed labor market data here in the u. S. Earlier in the session. We are up 235 points on the dow, near highs on the session for all three major averages joining us paul hickey cofounder of the spoke Investment Group very good afternoon to you happy new year to you. Where do you stan in terms of whether this bullishness is justified. Is it easy to pick bullish or bearish as we stand . When you look where things stand out, you look at the equity pros and cons which we look at on a regular basis, the pros are balanced with the cons. That doesnt suggest you should be taking a cautious view or just a neutral view implies average returns for the market Going Forward. And when we look whats going on in the market now, whats happening now, brett hits new high nasdaq hitting new highs what we follow closer than any other group is semiconductors
Face heavy rain, hail, and possible tornadoes. And that brutal heat wave not over. Well have the latest forecast. All that, plus, survival story. A plane crash off the california coast, and the couple films the whole thing. There she goes. A rare, up close look at a remarkable rescue. Summer of sharks. How a string of sightings in one of the most popular beach spots in the nation is taking a serious bite out of business. And hot and bothered. The major coffee chain rolling out Pumpkin Spice coffee drinks in the heat of summer. It is so good. Im sweating my face off, and i dont want Pumpkin Spice. Leaving a nation divided. Today, wednesday, august 21st, 2019. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hi, everybody. Good morning. Nice to have you with us on a wednesday morning. At the top for us this morning, we have the story of the president deciding not to go to denmark after all. He called off his state visit
The. Ready streets we spoke to asking us thoughts on the destruction of monuments, tomato, and the soldiers in poland, to crane and the Baltic States. This woman, a man and his date voice, the young girl, an officer. Everyone had an opinion on something to say, well, almost everyone. And no one of them will come to fax it monuments to the soldiers and that well with being demolished in neighboring countries. There are many reasons for that. Above all, people who live in russia, one way or another, have a direct connection to those monuments. Because no one family or even person was bad from the terrible calamity we call war. Theres no one who doesnt have the blood of heroes soldiers in front line fight, as it never rains over. Because on the homefront who gave everything for the front or those who died in camps in occupied lands, all who went missing old mounted a banner judge, took a bullet for brothers in arms. Also those who joined partisans, the resistance, everyone, the russians c