Im margaret brennan. With americans now dying at a rate of 1,000 a day and cases of coronavirus still increases in some areas, parents and teachers are facing tough choices about when and how to go back to school. Tonight in texas, where infections have reached more than half a million, the governor says some schools may not reopen until october. In new jersey, where classes were supposed to be held in person, hundreds of teachers now say they wont go back, forcing the governor there to offer virtual learning. And as pictures of crowded hallways and students not Wearing Masks flood social media, some schools that had just reopened are already being forced to close because students and staff are testing positive. President trump says he wants to see high school and College Football teams play this fall, even as Major Conferences are debating whether to go back on the field. And even the famed masters Golf Tournament known for its hushed crowds will be silent this year after announcing t
Intraday high. Its remarkable to look at that but its al important to think about where we could go from here my director of research took a look at the median time when you print a closing high until the nec time its actually on average about 90 days. Were 126 days out from that date that you mentioned. Every time the stay at home stocks look like they will roll over, somebody comes in and buys them look at zoom that looked like it was in trouble. Teledoc had this really nice comeback then you think about docusign, peleton. All of them when they looked shaky have came back those stocks have been fairly important. Take a look at Home Builders you cannot find a name in this index that doesnt look incredible on a technical basis right now. The industrials are trading sideways after digesting a huge move to the upside materials are hanging in there they are at record highs they are not going anywhere. I think when you consider the balance of all the Different Things that look good right n
Tiktok launches a legal bid to stop President Trump from imposing a ban in america. He says the app is a threat to National Security and tiktok says the bands peer politics. The president marks the official nomination at the Republican National convention by criticizing mailin voting and saying the opponents his opponents want to steal the election. Shery u. S. Futures are opening flat after solid gains for u. S. Stocks in the new york session. Record highs for the s p and the nasdaq. We had optimism over vaccines and treatments for coronavirus. The s p 500 saw most of the sectors in the green. Small cap biotech got big moves from the authorization of convalescent plasma for treating covid19. Vaccine developers tumbled on this new focus on plasma treatment. The dollar weakness we saw earlier in the session did pervak. Did pare back. Look at what oil is doing. It rallied and gasoline surged to a fivemonth high at the moment under pressure headed to the 42 a barrel level. Laurae storms m
Documents and a sketch of a test explosion. We will also see the president s announcement of the bomb dropping. The Truman Library institute provided this video. What i would like to do tonight is to show you a number of artifacts, photographs, documents related to the 75th anniversary of the atomic bomb. I will present them digitally and then well have some questions in the chat box at the end. I hope you enjoyed the presentation. Enjoy the presentation. I will go right in. This is not from july of 1945 but from april shortly after truman became president. Then we will look at some documents from july to see my timeline here. Then we will have another five to finish off. Even some from later into the 60s that connect to this topic. The first information that truman has about the Manhattan Project comes in april just 12 days after he becomes president on april 12. This very famous letter that some of you are very familiar with is when Henry Stimson writes to truman to tell him about th
Colleges are told to offload holdings of mainland companies. Australia signs a deal to make any covid19 vaccine for all. The government will distribute should it prove successful. More vaccine optimism playing out in australia. Lets look at how we are shaping up in terms of the u. S. Future session. Another renewed push of momentum in u. S. Markets overnight, hitting the record, propelled again by the same names. Also betterthanexpected u. S. Housing data. 2016 helping out sentiment, as well. We have positivity when it comes to the active futures trading at the moment. The nikkei 225 trading in chicago, looking flat at the moment ahead of a trade balance numbers, as well as machinery orders. We do have the topix, best performer in terms of Global Markets so far in this month of august. We are looking at broad weakness when it comes to the u. S. Dollar. The dollar sinking to his lowest levels since may of 2018. Im worried about the u. S. Economy with yet no relief package, stimulus pack