The heated rhetoric not helping the markets at all as we head into the final hour of trade. Neither did the weekly jobless claims number that came out this morning. It rose for the first time in 15 weeks. Then you have goldmans morning call that apple is bruised and should be tossed from your portfolio. Weve got red acheck it here. Dow down 341. S p down 38. The nasdaq down 227 points. This china situation, American Farmers dependent on selling their product to china, are bracing to be pawns once again. We will talk exclusively to a wisconsin soybean farmer about how his business was first affected since signing of the phase one trade deal and who knows whats going to happen to that phase. From massages to a whole different business of medical testing. How one chain flipped Business Plan to survi the covid crisis. Weve got the ceof express supspa group. They have the airport chains where you get massages. Hes here to tell us how hes pulling the 180 and offering covid tests. Its a fox b
Twitter shares soaring on a rumor the company is looking to build a Subscription Service a source close to the situation tells me that a Subscription Service is one of many Revenue Generating options that twitter is considering, but that no announcement in that area is imminent Ceo Jack Dorsey has said hes kicked around the idea of creating a subscription tier and twitter management has talked about building new revenue stream the focus on new ways twitter could make money as tiktok opens a new platform senator tom cotton warned americans against use ticktock. Secretary of state mike pompeo said late monday that the United States was looking at banning chinese social media apps including ticktock. Ticktock responded to pompeo by pointing to the companys new american ceo, former disney executive kevin mayer, saying we have never provided user data to the Chinese Government nor would we do so if asked. I want to go to dan nathan first. As i recall, dan, you had fast pitched twitter back
Launching that service here in the u. S. Later this month. We are staying at home and we want our groceries and other purchases delivered and quickly. And we are on that story throughout the program today. As for the overall market, dead flat following a selloff on tuesday but keep in mind the dow and s p are up 40 from their march lows and the nasdaq is up 50 since then. Pretty impressive. President trump says he will pressure governors to reopen schools in the fall. This is a major step in getting the economy back on track. Kids go back to school, parents can then go back to work. That, of course, will be an issue for sure in the election, where joe biden has the lead in all of the polls, if you believe them, and even some wall street firms are apparently preparing for a biden win. But we have a democrat pollster coming up in a few minutes who says the race is a lot closer than the polls would indicate. Just wait until you hear what congresswoman ilhan omar wants to do to the economy
He is the author of are we there yet . the american automobile past, present, and driverless. Its available for signing at the conclusion of the program. Please, without further ado, join me in welcoming him this evening. Thank you so much. Really generous and sweet introduction. Thank you so much. That was really lovely. Thank you, amanda. Really generous and sweet introduction. I think everybody for being i especially amanda told me that the smithsonian associate people have reminded me how engaged these audiences are. So i feel like i have to be up on my toes and really give you my a game to take that seriously. And to be a little intellectual, be a little heavy. Theres a lot of material in the book. Everything from teaching my daughter to drive to a freudian analysis. And a little bit of this theory of how one understands that. The reason i am doing that is to put us in the present moment where, as some of you may have heard, Driverless Cars are on the horizon. But at the end of th
Steepening and broadening and a lot more this is one of those rallies that not only is taking people by surprise, but continues to roll and were seeing major gap ups i was mentioning on squawk major gap ups in the morning more of the 1980s action and its very interesting because stan talked about his views of the 1980s and theyre pertinent as ever. We have incredible and we have a president who wants new highs and we have stocks that are recovering well ahead of the fundamentals but some people can say that is what should happen look at the airlines we are hhad some numbers from pl lebeau and almost as if people decided covid is over and its a vshape rally and you better get on board and that makes you a little uncomfortable. Well, i just think that the friday rallies, as sweet as it was off the unemployment number has not put out any sellers, carl and i often think that there have to be sellers at a certain level. I mean, can you really take the banks up so much when there was so much