Begin with the oracle of omaha well start with the trimming of apple shares hes got more than 900 million we totally get it. Its not like buffetts bailing on apple in any way. It did sell about 36 million shares what is this, do you think is it simply Portfolio Management i think thats exactly right, scott. Its Portfolio Management. Apple being one of the most liquid stocks in the world on any market he could have sold a lot more than that if he had wanted to. So this is just, look, the stocks had a great run, hes pairing back a little bit, got a lot of cash. What i found kind of surprising is that with that much cash, actually not surprising but confirming on the value of the market is that he really hasnt made any big acquisitions. Hes only said hell only buy his stock if he cant find anything else to buy they scooped up 9 billion of their stock in the last quarter. They continue to buy back a lot of stock i do wonder even at the margins, ty any, if this is in any way a statement tha
Tesla getting set to take off. And tesla is up 9 today. Were going to take a look at the growing musk empire. And booming sales at walmart and home depot but the stocks not getting that same boost today. Power lunch starts right now welcome once again to power lunch, im john fort boy, its hard to swim up stream in the amazon. Cvs, wall green, right aid and dorsey and zuckerberg and ceos testify in front of the senate one bright spot in the s p 500, cruise stocks as norwegian is near the high of the session for more on the market action, lets get to bob pisani. Hello, john its sort of a choppy, indeterminate day. The market cant quite decide what it wants to do today. Weve had a great run in bank and material stocks. The cyclical names have done really well recently those are on the weak side today. Tech is kind of flattish overall today here and then we had Energy Stocks and reits. So energy has been holding up very well today and so has Real Estate Investment trusts on top of that. Te
Conservation. How to make see the screen. How can we protect our tests. We can make a difference to. The ideas the environmental series of little 3000. 00 on t. W. Gone. Were being told to keep things clean. d d d through direct contact or through the air traces of corona virus can be transferred to the objects we touch and in turn transfer to us. To keep that from happening weve come up with innovative ways to avoid having to touch things. And to keep surfaces clean. Living our lives means its impossible to avoid all types of contact so we need to understand the real. Risks in our environments. How long does the virus remain viable on surfaces and is it ever there in dangerous amounts do surfaces pose the threat we once thought they did. And this is the covert 900 special hello and welcome to the show im Stephen Beardsley in berlin good to have you with us money shopping cards door handles just about everything we touch is getting a 2nd look these days or even a clever work around lik
Just gone 5 here in moscow you with r. T. International a french prosecutors say that the man that decapitated a School Teacher in france was born in moscow and was off chechen origin had been living in france as a refugee the. Growing anger after the teacher had reportedly showed his class earlier this month derogatory cartoons of the prophet mohammed. 80 a cynic one of our compatriots was murdered because he taught freedom of expression the freedom to believe or not believe that you are compassionate was the victim of an islamist terror attack and that the that the. Ok well lets get more now from charlotte bin ski joins us from paris good afternoon charlotte what more then do we know about this case because as weve heard the details of the killing himself of being released yes thats right the national antiterrorism prosecuting him fronts has been putting new details about what exactly happened in the days leading up to that brutal capitation of 47 year old history teacher whos been n
A tory bank bailout austerity something that may have contributed to britains poor response to coronavirus coming up in the show in the wake of these perfect storm revelations we asked dr jacobs plan well start of netflixs pandemic about the race for a vaccine and why lockdowns seem to be the only cure some nations understand and as the u. K. Government sparks outrage with its approach to everything from the arts to refugees to a man who came to this country as a refugee from somalia sheffields youngest lord mayor and former green party any magic magic about fighting a system led by politicians blind to the damage they cause all the some more coming up in todays going underground but 1st in this month of the anniversary of the u. S. Backed murder of revolutionary change in bolivia the poorest country in latin america tomorrow goes to the polls up for grabs for nato affiliated multinational corporations in bolivias elections are the Worlds Largest known deposits of lithium used in the b