Oakland is going to reach up to 87 degrees. We will talk more about this coming up. Mike, how is that looking for the commute . Well, pretty good, kari, but i have to call out the east bay, because looking at the map, there is a green view of the sen source, but over here in freemont, northbound and 680 at the bend of washington and irving, showing the northbound slowing there with a crash perhaps caused by debris, and a larger boulder is reported in the roadways heading past washington and you can see the Speed Sensors changing. Meanwhile in the same area as usual, we have the westbound commute from 580 and highway 84. In the same area, marcus, i hand it back to you. All right. Staying on the breaking news for you, and this is the fires ripping through parts of the bay area, and in some cases coming dangerously close to homes, and prompting evacuation, and all of this is happening in the extreme degree temperatures, and talking about 100 degrees or higher in some place, and taking you
Times Peterson Foundation poll, only 14, 14, 14 of families own stocks outright. Meaning the market is creating all this wealth for the few, not the many 60 of americans dont even know that stocks are up for the year and theyve advanced 24 hallelujah so after a sedate day where the dow gained 28 points, the nasdaq climbed 0. 05 , lets talk about what the heck is going on here i think its a lot more complicated than simple ignorance. The first reason why people who can afford to own stocks are sitting on the sidelines earning very little, the disastrous bear market at the turn of the century impoverished a whole generation of individual investors who got burned by chasing, yes, the hottest stocks imaginable when the dot com crash hit, it ended the greatest love affair ever told. I was part of it i started the street. Com in 1995 immediately found hundreds of thousands of people with a thirst for any investing knowledge to level the Playing Field. Between the rich and the not so rich at
And crude is taking a spill as well our road map begins with breaking news as china retaliates announcing those new tariffs on u. S. Goods. Well go live to washington with details. The moment of truth. Jay powell is just an hour away from speaking out. Obviously the big event fed chair powell fed harker does not see a case. I am on hold right now. My forecast is just hold where we are for exact one of the reasons is that. I think we run the risk of creating too much leverage in the economy. My sense was we added accomodation and it was not required in my view. My view with this very low Unemployment Rate with wage rising with the inflation rates staying close to the feds target i think we are in a good place jim bohlullard made his caser lowering rate. Whats the market going to be the next five years. You adjust it for pc market is about 1 or 1. 1 inflation so we are supposed to hit our inflation target thats one reason why i argued that we should get lower well wonder whether powell i
Picture. Goldmansachs expects the fed to begin easing in q2 of next year. Also ahead, were going to talk about what is next for the tech sector. This is in the midst of whats been a rough august at least so far. Were down 7 month to date. And letter x Surging Company rejects an unsolicited takeover offer from its rival, cleveland cliff. Lets get some other news, though, as well, as we start the show paypal has a new ceo whoa. Yeah. Alex, who currently runs the Small Business and selfemployed group for intuit, is going to take over from paypals longtime ceo dan shulman on september 27th according to members of the board a little earlier than expected they conducted the search for paypals new ceo shulman will remain a paypal director until next may. Chriss being hired was a result of the process where the board interviewed nine ceos. They reduced that pool to four candidates and then they chose mr. Chriss members of the Board Selection Committee tell me he impressed them with leading a d
Yields have picked up. Tenyear yield above 5 . That is a significant level. We touched briefly above that for a nanosecond last week. Since then, you have to go back to 2007 when you have seen yields at these levels. 5. 012 for the tenyear yield. By the way, check out energy prices. You will see wti which is off 33 cents. 87. 76. We have merger monday as joe mentioned. Look at what is happening here. Chevron buying hess in the deal of 53 billion. 171 a share. That is a low premium over the Closing Price for hess on friday. Hess shares are up 2. 25 . Chevron down 2. 9 . This deal comes just weeks after exxonmobil made its move to buy pioneer natural resources. Both stocks on the move. Hess ceo john hess will join chevrons board. I just got off the phone with mike wirth. Very low primemium on this. This goes back long before the rumors came out about exxonmobil and pioneer. That deal went through last week. A lot of people thought after the deal, that chevron would look for Something Els