Tweet us cnbc fast money. Lets start with a strong start to the week for the markets. In fact, recordbreaking close for the nasdaq tech leading the way it has done so often guy, your take on todays rally. If we snapshot today, guy, Half Way Point of the year, the dow is down 8 or so the nasdaq 100, up 21 , almost a 30 differential will that be repeated in the second half of the year . Well, first of all, its great to be with you you know, im a huge fan of yours. Ive mentioned that number of times. So. Thanks for hanging out with us this evening. Thanks for having me, guys. Im hard pressed to believe that you can come anywhere close to having that same kind of out performance in the second half but i have to say, i didnt think it would happen in the first half of the year so who am i to sort of speculate on that. What i will say in terms of the s p 500 with its move basically within a whisper of its alltime high if you assume 130 worth of earnings for the s p 500, which is a pipe dream,
That your Safety Security and health are always a priority at c. S. And we will continue to evaluate and expand the measures we put in place we are working closely with the Las Vegas Community including the last Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and hotel venues as they develop and implement reopening plans nevada casinos generated nearly 8800000000 in revenue last year and then came the shutdown and when the lights went out their employment hit 28 percent highest in the usa but now the lights are back on and how has the recent las vegas reopening gone and has it gone too far lets ask john shaffer a familiar voice if you live there in the valley he reports to us from. Radio john thanks for your time. And any time. Although i suspect that the video and the pictures we saw when the lights 1st went off didnt do it justice the strip gone dark was scary thing to see give us some adjectives to describe the mood there when the shutdown 1st began. It was bleak it was let it goes down her
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Of taking harsh new policy action against beijing and lets get to Kayla Tausche in washington kayla . Melissa, todays policy announcement by President Trump was essentially a doubling down on pretelegraphed policies that the administration had already announced. Today from the rose garden, President Trump said that the u. S. Would be terminating its relationship with the world health organization, that it would be suspending entry into the u. S. For certain students and researchers that it finds to be affiliated with Chinese Military arms, that it would be starting a study of the Chinese Companies Accounting Practices and exactly what their role within the Financial Markets is with the potential delisting on the table there and studying the economic status of hong kong any possibly eliminating special treatment for that territory in the wake of beijings new National Security law and most of that was already laid out by white house or Administration Officials in the weeks leading up to
11 and planning to close some stores permanently. This as some Grocery Store workers and employees at other American Giants get set to lose the hero pay theyve been receiving for the passed two months. Start your engines. Nascar back in action this weekend and racing fans cant wait, even though they have to watch from home. But how will they keep the drivers and their crew members safe . The president of nascar will join us live. All of that, plus mission to space. The u. S. Space force making history this morning, launching a secretive plane into orbit for the first time ever. The mission and what it hopes to accomplish. Today saturday, may 15, 2020. From nbc news this is today with peter alexander, Kristen Welker and dylan dreyer. Welcome to today. Thank you for joining us on this saturday morning. It is the weekend, whatever that means anymore. We are glad to have our friend dylan back of course as well. The days are all blending together these days. This is only your second weekend