Move news out of moderna that they have a vaccine that is 94 point 5 effective on preparation of volunteers greater than 30,000 people. Real optimism there. We have the s p 500 finishing higher. We have nice gains out of the mat out of the nasdaq and moderna is sharply higher. We have a big Institutional Investment here. The big news out of berkshire, they added to their portfolio in the space of health care meyer,ng pfizer, bristol with the virus, perhaps these additions have something to do with the virus. Pfizer had been down in the day after the news around the virus came out. A divergence there. An interesting day. Interesting movement in the afterhours. Emily that was bloombergs abigail doolittle. Think you for that round up. I want to the airbnb filing. This is releasing Financial Results and previously confidential information on its operation. This listing is had to be one of the biggest of the year, capping an ipo surge. More, i want to bring in crystal. Pull up some of the h
Welcome to squawk alley. John fort has the morning life watching carefully as both apple, tesla, and the thatnasdae dipping into the red lets go to alex sherman tiktok is suing the u. S. Government over effectively banning the app come september 15th tiktok released a blog post right now explaining the rationality behind the lawsuit against the u. S. Government. There are two administrative actions that the Trump Administration has taken the fist would effectively ban the app by september 15th. That is the one that tiktok is challenging saying it has been preventing due process it has worked with the government for almost a year trying toics plane that it is not, in fact, a National Security threat. Their parent is bite dance that is what this has all been about over the past several months the order demands that bitedance die vest tiktok by october that means the sale talks with microsoft and oracle will continue tiktok has at least challenged the effective ban that takes place next m
Arizona, and hospital cases in california all marking new highs. Plus top advisers to President Trump are set to urge the u. S. To undermine the hong kong dollar peg to punish china for its crackdown in the city. Ons get a quick check up how markets are set up for the open. Here is Sophie Kamaruddin in hong kong. Sophie in asia this wednesday, we are seeing a mixed start to the session with focus on china and if mainland stocks can keep up that rally we have seen for six days. Futuresd 14 so we have in the green for the most part. Hang seng futures settling higher after the rally did stall in hong kong on tuesday. Switching out the board, checking in on the hong kong dollar, which continues to have the 7. 75 mine as they continue to defend the peg, we are seeing little reaction in the curb. Jumping into the terminal for a big picture book, low 200 pips after the spike we saw in may but staying elevated on economic and political uncertainties. Tracking any reaction to a bloomberg report
Latest kayla . Melissa, this effort by the white house to target social Media Companies for a perceived bias has been under way for nearly a year, but in the wake of twitters Fact Checking President Trumps own tweets, policy officials rushed the executive order out today. Heres what is in it which the president signed this afternoon. Agencies from the fcc to the ftc and many other agencies in between are directed to review liability shields that are provided to these content companies that protect them from lawsuits over what appears on their platforms. The department of justice are directed to organize state attorneys general to enforce the crackdown. The federal government is also going to be issuing a widespread review of taxpayer dollars that are going to these platforms in terms of the governments own ad spending and all of this is expected to happen over the next 30 days. These agencies are supposed to report back and these funding totals are supposed to be submitted to the offic
Than thoughts prayers. The canadian Prime Minister just in food bans 1500 types of assault weapons in response to the countrys worst mass shooting. Also ahead filling up fast with more on the way to report on the crude storage crisis from a place known as the worlds oil crossroads. An experimental antiviral drug has been approved for emergency use in freezing coronavirus patients in the United States 1500000 vials of the drug disappear will be distributed to hospitals from monday the regulator gave its approval after a government sponsored study showed the medication shortened patients Recovery Time by about 30 percent and slightly improved mortality rates the boss of sciences the company that makes room disappear says they are now increasing production. And were also fully committed to continuing to expand the supply of this medicine and we started investing in this back in january as soon as we became aware of the krona virus this is a long time to manufacture it used to be 12 months