Before the house antitrust subcommittee lets get straight to kayla with the details. Reporter four hours in and a third round of questioning underway as republicans challenge apple, amazon, facebook and alphabet on political censorship and democrats take aim at the size and power the companies have amassed. Here is David Cicilini our founders would not bow before a king, nor should we bow before the emperors of the online economy reporter these four horsemen of the Technology Industry responded in kind saying, in fact, they each face healthy competition in their respective fields competition drives us to innovate and leads to better products, more choices and more choices for everyone. Customers have a lot of choices and there are products that face fierce Competition Companies like samsung, lg, huawei and google. Were okay with that. I there are concerns about the size of Tech Companies our services are about connection and our Business Model is advertising and we face intense competi
Look particularly at the nasdaq, its up 16 year to date but the wait is what you have to think about. Facebook, apple, amazon, microsoft google are up 13 year to date. So youre seeing overweight in terms of really big companies. Any meaningful downward movement along them is going to result in broader index. Im not optimistic particularly nasdaq because i think its overinflated liquidation there is it too glib to say if vaccine hopes are met with real positive data that technology suffers from a whithering stayathome narrative, or is that too simplistic . Yeah, its a little simplistic, mostly because of the factors that are contributing to the tech growth are multivariant you have this issue of the low Interest Rate environment which is drawing a lot of yield, but you also have the fact that people staying at home use Digital Services more. You look at the streams services and the semiconductor and tip companies which are underlines and inputs on the digitization thats happening thats
Sports leagues are trying to make a come back mike tirico is going to tell us what the biggest hurdles are that all of the teams are facing right now. Tyler, thanks, the nasdaq is on track to snap a fiveday winning streak after the apple hedlines spooked investors. I think the key point here is that there are is 11 stores it is only 11 Stores Online stores are still open most of the others are still open most only have curb side pick up, but the whole thing is trying to figure out the trajectory of reopening. The closings of anything, and the market should be concerned about this you look at some of these travel a and leisure stocks they were flattish a little over two hours ago here, but trip advisor is down here we did have that announcement, no cruising until september 15th, but that was only a short while ago. The apple announcement was before that. Another casualty is brick and mortar retail. I want to specify, it dropped here, here is your dillards, abercromb abercrombie, and mor
Some places are reporting record single day increases lets kick things off with meg terre terrell. Were seeing a couple days worth of data with record cases. If you look at the United States in total, now the sevenday average of new cases is starting to tick higher again meaning trends to the south and west of increasing cases are starting to overcome the positive trends coming down in the northeast as of yesterday, 27,000 new cases were reported across the United States United States. If you look at individual case, weve been getting the new case counts for today for states like arizona now up to an additional 3200 cases today california reporting 4300 additional cases today but that could be due to Testing Backlog from l. A. County we saw in the numbers yesterday. Florida also reporting record high cases today 3800 South Carolina another one of those states reporting record highs. Now in terms of the hot spots in the country, the areas with the fastest case doubling times, it is clos
Headlines and what it means for markets with our markets correspondent, abigail doolittle. Tech continues to outperform today, and it is something we have seen in recent weeks. Where is the leadership tech typically provides . It was not there on the day. That has to do with one of the headlines you were talking about, ratcheting up tensions between the u. S. And china. They have been there in recent weeks, but markets ignoring it to some degree. Last year, every other week risk on, risk off, depending on the headlines. Right now, there are concerns those headlines, the war of words between the u. S. And china, taking down tech. A lot of these Companies Receive quite a bit of revenue from china. Apple, the tech heavy weight received about 20 from china. The ship sector chip sector is super sensitive to china. We see the s p 500 tech index down more than 1 . The stock down even more. Over the last nine days, we have seen a real roller coaster ride. Last week was risk off. This week we h