Washington post columnist, thriller writer who writes about the cia and such. This month, Pulitzer Prize winning author, Colson Whitehead as our guest. His most recent book is the under ground railroad. Mr. Whitehead, whats the appropriate response new book is appraised by oprah, president obama, you won the National Book award, what is the appropriate response . If only it took the pain aw away. [laughter] has taken off in a way thats unexpected and startling and wonderful. Just try to enjoy it despite my best efforts. Why does it put you in a better mood . Ive been writing for 20 something years doing fiction 20 some years, sometimes we write a book and people dig it and understand it sometimes write a book and no one cares and its sort of disappears so i have the pride the job i did with the book. Either you dig the groups of two prospectors or you dont and so you are either along for the ride description or not. Definitely when i was writing was my second attempt at a novel. My fir
Palantir pelletier set a september 9 date for an Investor Presentation. And bumble is preparing for a Public Offering that could come as early as the start of next year. Has, reports the cdc notified Public Health officials in all 50 states and five large cities to distribute a Coronavirus Vaccine to Health Care Workers and other highrisk groups as late as as early as late october or early november. Into question the timing because the president ial election is november 3. Lets see how the stories are playing out with Abigail Doolittle in new york. Stocks at record highs, but mixed messages beneath the surface. What are you reading . Abigail it was a very exciting day. At the beginning, we thought we would find a decent decline. The nasdaq went down by 1 . But at the end of the day, big gains including for the nasdaq 100. The s p 500 gaining 1. 5 . Perhaps because of vaccine hopes. For the mixed messages, there are nuances, including the fact that the mega caps you were mentioning like
Community pushed back. Call this a red carpet alert the first one in months as movie theaters continue to reopen. And later, more than 800 return on a 400,000 investment it has nothing to do with the stock marketment all of that ahead on this monday, august 24th and this is Worldwide Exchange right here on cnbc. We are ready to play. Brian sullivan good to see you on this very busy monday morning. Thanks for joining us. Theyre setting up their day and their week and they are setting it up strong or on that big graphic right in front of your face stock futures are solidly higher dow futures up 215 points right now. Overall you know the headlines they say stocks keep going up. Thats only half true. Big cap tech keeps going up. The only sector to close those stocks as we well know by now are so big look no further than apple apple ending last week up 8 taking it along for the ride but the majority of the market is actually going down last week but when you got the biggest of the big going
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Forth with portnoy on what you say are amazing insane moves that can continue. Yeah, i mean, understand there is florida has been so much comparison in 1999, 1999 was never like this. You had a lot of crumby companies that would go up a lot but nothing like this. I mean, we have major trillion Dollar Companies that are going up at a pace that weve obviously never seen because we didnt have trillion Dollar Companies before but i do think that my friend David Portnoy hes got a big cohort saying that stocks only go up and im just giving this is frightening im giving a little bit of homage here because, yes, if you got in when davie trade got in, i mean, all youve seen is up. So its not wrong for him to look at that i mean, the guy got in i think march 23rd when he decided to take the suits on directly i got up this morning, i said, geez, maybe i should wear jeans. I dont want to be like wrong. I want to be i dont want to be on the other side of the trade of this guy. His timing is excepti