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
Airline heavily criticizing the bailout deal the worlds biggest lighting maker has made a product that can degrade the virus and disinfect indoor areas all the applications we are putting into the markets are safe the good news is that it is also good for covid19. South koreas minister agrees to step down after north korea shows footage of it blowing up on the border a warm welcome from street signs. The stoxx 600 is in the green. There have been a few significant positive developments in the last 24 hours, we had those strong retail numbers come through providing a boost in the u. S. And europe. On the health care front, we had Health Care News the uk major drug trial found that a 60yearold steroid, very common, widely available, cheap drug actually reduces the mortality rate of Covid Patients this is the first drug they have found that reduces death from the vie vus. We have remdesivir but this drug, dexamethasone cuts the death rate. We are eyeing beijing where theyve seen a new set
Resurging cases of covid19 could impact. The concerns about new cases seem to win out. There is a tension between the good and bad news of the jobs report and the sense that things will in prove improve more quickly. Nonetheless, a very good report. On their hand, the virus data means hotspots are worsening with the end of the day well off the highs. Thenasdaq had been up on close of. 5 . Stocks,g index and chip and remember, this year thats the new defense. These were the stocks really used for the stayathome trend, so strength there almost indicates that some folks think theres going to be more stayathome action ahead. Confirming there was a rally for bonds up a little bit with that yield going down. Stock that was noticeably the last five or days around these Companies Boycotting the platform for advertising, facebook is down 2 . There was the headline that Mark Zuckerberg is going to be meeting with some of the folks behind the boycott, perhaps trying to have a instructive conversa
Circuit judge, you could look at what he had decided. We could look, mr. President , you, and i and other members of the senate could look at what he decided and anticipate what his record would look like and it makes a difference. I have no doubt that President Trump will continue to nominate judges who will rule as Justice Scalia, the last vacancy created with the unfortunate loss of Justice Scalia who served on the Supreme Court for 26 years after the person that nominated him left the white house and 13 years after president reagan died. So the legacy of what happens here is important. Justice scalia became profound in his sense that the judge the work of the court was not to decide what the legislature should have done. The work of the court was to decide what the law said and what the constitution said and there are ways to change the law and there are ways to amend the constitution. But a person who is on the court needs to look at what the constitution and the law say. Thats wh
Record highs on an intraday basis. They have not been able to maintain those levels. These are all very small moves. I wanted to dig into the dow a little bit. The only of the three major averages that have failed to maintain the record that was set on march 1. Apple is the big winner in that index. Shares up 3 after brian white over at Drexel Hamilton put a price target on apple, sending shares up. Ibm lower on Warren Buffett cutting his stake through berkshire hathaway. Bernsteins saying the shares should not be bought on weakness. Downly, Goldman Sachs 0. 66 . To talk about apple again for a moment and as it relates to the s p 500 more so, right now, thus far, we have seen apple rally in along with the s p 500 rallying along with the s p 500. This has been supportive for the s p. On the bottom, we have the correlation. We are really seeing a lot of the time, a majority of the time, the two moving in tandem. If apple does continue to rally, that would not be bad news for u. S. Stocks