Looking to open off 37 points. The 10year note stands at a point. We are looking at. 672 melissa lee in the house that was a major move we are back up towards those highs right now. We saw lots of ramifications in the market looking at how quickly it moves higher. Im trying to watch whatever information i have is about 12 seconds old we are all in a house somewhere. Just not together. It is good to see you although i cant see you now. Im looking at the board from 15 seconds ago. We are going to power through this well up an update on why we are all doing this new case numbers have been declining across the country but testing shortages are calling those numbers into request the average number of covid cases down 19 from july 28 but testing has declined over the same time period amc to reopen u. S. Theaters august 20 and hopes to have twothirds of theaters open. Says all staff and customers must wear masks. That is the change from comments in june that mask wearing would be encouraged b
Pollution. From protective gear to takeout containers, theres a new flood of plastic debris in fields and waterways across the world. Well talk to some of those raising the alarm and address the problem. First, we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. It has been able to strengthen. And you see all the rainfall over the bahamas. We have some outer bands already beginning to move into portions of south florida. Reporter the hurricane is moving closer to the u. S. Shoreline. In fact, theres a couple of landfalls possible. Behind isais more is forming. Reporter the president will take action to ban tiktok. We may be banning tiktok. Reporter coronavirus surging, more than 4. 5 Million People have been infected. We feel cautiously optimistic that we will have a vaccine by the end thereof year. This is going to be the latest election disaster in history. Mr. Trump making inaccurate claims about voting by mail. Wants to cancel or postpone the election.
Economist fears to put it all in perspective, chief Economic Advisor mohammed will be joining us. The worlds searching for a cure for the deadly coronavirus, one Company Thinks its device could help save lives, the chief medical officer and cofounder will tell us how it all works. In schools across the nation get set to reopen, one company is ready to make learning from home easier for teachers, parents and students, is sounds good, sullivan learning is here with the fox business exclusive, were less than hour to the closing bell, im abstention Ashley Webster in for liz claman, lets start the claman countdown. Ashley breaking news, right off the top of the show, mgm resorts is said to reopen the mirage casino resort on august 27, and headed crucially of the long Labor Day Holiday weekend, the 3000 room resort along with many other casinos in sin city has been shut since march due to the coronavirus, a sign of progress, right there. Mgm reopening the mirage august 27, as for the markets
150,000 mark as texas, california and florida see record fatalities. Infections spike in china, hong kong and japan as well. Hill. Tech titans on the the ceos of amazon and alphabet and Facebook Face a virtual grilling over antitrust. Haidi lets get you started with a check of the markets. U. S. Futures opening flat, slightly higher that by. 1 . This after we saw u. S. Stocks extending gains in the regular session, the dollar declining estate as dovish as possible. The s p 500 gained more than 1 , adding to the july rally. 11 sectors were higher with tech leading the way. As i mentioned earlier, we are seeing that big tech antitrust showdown in congress ongoing at the moment. Nasdaq composite and at 1. 4 high. At a oneweek. The dollar weakness really resumed with the fed sticking with low rates. Look at what oil is doing. It has been the weak dollars supporting oil prices. We continue to see these gains of 41 a barrel. It was also propped up in the new york session by the biggest decli
Cloud business well dig in to those results. Thanks. Checking the markets right now the dow is up 136. The s p up 14. These are about a third of a percent. About half the gains we saw earlier on, while the nasdaq is hanging on to its rise, and its been leading the pack all day. As tyler mentioned, check out amazon up 10 , nearly 150 billion in market cap added after its Earnings Report last night its also boosting other cloud stocks like data dog and snowflake, which are among them. Apple falling after posting sales decline for the Third Straight quarter there you can see there is snowflake and data dog apple down 3. 5 . But lets get right to bob pisani with the question we posed off the top. Is this the perfect goldilocks jobs report . The important thing is nobody is that worried about apple down 3 its the jobs report bottom line is job growth is slowing down but not too much thats what kelly means with goldilocks it was afine needle to thread, but they really did it on this jobs rep