On top chinese officials for now. Joining us to break down the day that was, abigail doolittle. She has been following all the market action. Curious what you make of the whiplash today and why investors were not more optimistic about the vaccine news. Abigail another volatile day. Today, a bit jittery. There was a point in time where it felt like you were going to see a bearish reversal. It did happen for the nasdaq 100 and the new york faang index. The tech stocks and stayed home stocks did go lower. At the beginning of the day as you were mentioning, we had the surge and optimism around the moderna vaccine, that perhaps it is going to be the cureall and could come earlier. But, that is far off. When you put that together with the fact that the dollar and this is boring in a way because the dollar has been one of the big drivers for stocks and raise gaskets risk assets. The overnight, the dollar had been down 6 10 of 1 . On the open, down have a percent. When the dollar paired its lo
President respond to it today. I am not going to go into it at length, but let me cut to the chase. And arizona are where new york and new jersey were 85 days ago. That is what you need to know. It is extremely important to understand that something has changed in the last 24 hours. This is the story front and center today. Jonathan the numbers are worrying. They are concerning. I am not going to get excited about 3 billion of trade between the eu and the United States. This has got to be about the reopening process. Does it constrain policymakers ability to push forward in states like texas . It. you just nailed consumer confidence, i think, is probably going to be one of the biggest drivers. We are already seeing this anecdotally across the country. Meanwhile, we have economists trying to get their hands on around just what this means. We will get projection from the imf on their latest earth outlook. They already pretty good the deepest recession globally and almost a century. We ar
Free and fair vote. We are holding this hearing and we engage regularly with social Media Companies because they are best positioned to sound the alarm if and when another external actor attempts to interfere. First, because their technical capacity and security background and allows them to protect malicious activity on their platforms, and make attributions to technical indicators that are available only to the companies themselves. And second, because we cannot have complete confidence that the white house will allow the Intelligence Community to look fully and properly inform congress, if there is a foreign interference, especially if the interference appears to assist the president s reelection. That is a dangerous state of affairs, but nonetheless it reflects the reality and why theres hearing is so important. Witnesses, as you described, a lot has changed. In many ways we are better prepared today than we were four years ago. Each of your companies have taken significant steps a
Facebook executives has been meeting with advertisers and Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to meet with civil rights leaders to hear their concerns. But he has had such meetings before. Will another meeting change anything . Joining us is the color of change Vice President , part of the folks who have been pushing the stop hate for profit campaign. Thank you for joining us. Were hearing that zuckerberg has agreed to meet with folks like yourself to try to hear you out. What are you expecting to hear from him, given that you have met with him before and his position has not necessarily changed . Thank you for having me. We are hopeful that in a meeting with Mark Zuckerberg, he will finally hear our real concerns about how the platform is operating. We have obviously been in conversations with the corporation for years, and our demands remain the same, but we are hoping that in light of this new pressure from corporate advertisers from across the globe that he will actually hear demands for a
Retailers, but some Companies Found creative ways to engage consumers. On the round table the, ben levisohn, carlton english and al root. Ben, you used a great phrase earlier this week when we were talking about the market, you said this week the market was violently flat. Whatd you mean by that . Right. So the market, it seems like every day the dow is going up 400 points or is dropping 400 points, or it looks like its going to drop 400 points but then does an about face and heads higher. Were seeing coronavirus cases spike in many states, and some days the headlines seem to matter and other days they dont. And its really not clear what is going to get the market sort of knocked out of this range that its been in. The s p 500 did finish higher this week, but its still below the june 8th high from the rally off the marlo. So its going to be march low. Its going to be interesting to watch as these headlines continue to keep the stock market in place or if market can get going. But its n