Mnuchin again today and we will hear from the treasury secretary in a few minutes at delivering alpha. Plus palantirs public debut, backed by peter thiel, it will be a direct listing at the New York Stock Exchange, lots to discuss there. And covid optimism, regeneron saying its treatment cocktail helps in the early stages of the virus and we will talk with the companys cofounder and chief science officer polarity on this hour jim, of course, you have to get the debate out of the way, everybody is talking about that and were going to hear the argument that if you look at futures and even some of the Prediction Markets today, theres an argument that the debate really didnt change the broad contours of the race. Before we got pmi, before we got this little squib from speaker pelosi, the futures were down very big. I was watching dom this morning, it looked like the market would be very ugly and i think that was because of arecognition that there was no way you could possibly have any sort
Source on cspan, unfiltered, unbiased, word for word. From the Nations Capital to wherever you are. The opinion that matters most is your own. This is what democracy looks like. Cspan, powered by cable. National Economic Council chair Lael Brainard discusses the Biden Administrations economic policies and their impact on growth in the economy. He also touched on workforce participation, supply chain challenges and china. This event was hosted by the peterson interest Peterson Institute for economics. We are due to start in a few seconds. Given the importance of dr. Brainard today we are here for the presentation by dr. Lael brainard director of the Economic Council assessing the recovery. This is a great opportunity for us, not just to welcome lael back but to seriously engage with the Top Biden Administration official on what could only be described as a surprising and superb performance of the u. S. Economy in the last 1. 5 years, two years. As a former central banker and strong econ
Diverse burst of technological innovation of the past 150 years, writes historian leslie berlin. Quote, five Major Industries were born; personal computing, video games, advanced semiconductor logic, modern Venture Capital and biotechnology. Unquote. The valley brought to life new Iconic Companies including apple, atari, genentech and major venture firms. Berlin spent six years doing research with many of the Unsung Heroes of this era behind these landmark developments and that set in motion these ripple effects which have literally changed the world. Tonight she joins us to discuss her new book, troublemakers Silicon Valleys coming of age. This side of the stage were really pleased to present a small exhibit just for you tonight of artifacts related to each of the seven Silicon Valley trouble merricks featured in troublemakers featured in her book. And were very thrilled to have several of the reimaginer troublemakers remarkable troublemakers with us tonight. So, al, mike and sandy, w
The new estimate does not take proposals. T other the russian president Vladimir Putin says he hopes for normalization of relations between his country and the u. S. President putin made comments on the annual tv call in show at among other topics coming the former fbi director james comey has not provided proof that russia influence last years u. S. President ial election. List ofo getting its demands from saudi arabia and the united arab collate and turkey are acting as mediators between cutter and the alliance, honoring the cup group,rt of the allied according to people familiar with the matter, proposals could be coming in the next two days. Global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 100 20 countries. Im mark crumpton. This is bloomberg. Live from bloombergs World Headquarters in new york, i am julia. I am scarlet fu. Joe i am Joe Weisenthal p are where 30 minutes of the close of trading in the u. S. You guessed it, a tech story once again
Today. It seems a guy quietly, but here we are at these record levels. The dow and the s p are there. The nasdaq is the outperform her, but it is not at a record. It does not take much for the dollar and the s p to get to record status. Today, tack is driving the indices. You can see that the nasdaq outperformance today, and also by the fact the S P Information Technology index is at its highest in about 15, 16 years. Microsoft is helping lead the gains thereafter earnings Beat Estimates on the strength of its cloud business. The company, like many legacy tech firms, has been trying to migrate in that direction. Ciscos chain at its highest and him us a decade, and facebook is also trading higher and at a record as well today. A lot of records to go around. It is not just limited to, sort of, software and social media. We are seeing gains in chipmakers as well. Intel reports after the close of trading. Mermel technology reported after the close yesterday and Beat Estimates. Micron is ge