Zbla good morning, everyone, im scott mcgrew. On tuesday amazon announced it would join the countless numbers of services delivering lunch to San Francisco. As amazon really means business, offering free delivery of your health smoothy or greasy burger with no upcharge. And amazon joins Services Like uber eats and door dash in the food delivery business. Door dash Just Announced a deal with carls jr. And 127 million in new funding. Tony chu and troy wol verton of the mercury news. I want to talk about that funding in a second. There is one bit of business, our set looks different and thats because were actually borrowing the set from our friends at telemundo to do the show while we build a brandnew studio. Might switch to spanish. Lets hope not because i can get by with a Little French and thats it. Lets talk about amazon. This is brandnew news since you and i arranged to have you on the show. Amazon swooping into your business. How is that going to go . Were very excited that folks li
This is Al Jazeera America life from new york city. Pope francis is on his way to the u. S. Right now. He shook hands with fidel castro before leaving cuba in the last hour. It took him to havana to the castros birthplace. During the final mass, he asked cubans to pray from him. We have the report from havana on why this visit is so significant. Reporter pope francis wrapped up his historic threecity fourday tour in cuba. This is the popes first visit to the ilan. Its amidst historic changes in this country. Just last week we had this further opening of restrictions in terms of what american businesses can do down here in terms of hiring cuban employees and opening offices. This is something pope francis helped broker and achieve. He also has his own agenda. Cuba has a tenuous history when it comes to religion in this country. Priests were driven out and Church Property was confiscated. Part of the agenda has been to get the Catholic Church as more of a bigger part of cuban life here.
First to our lead. First it was original tv, and now netflix is getting serious about film. On sunday the companys first original movie, beast of no , screened before a particularly important audience critics at the toronto film festival. It follows an african warlord on his quest to train young recruits. The films star power includes the emmywinning true detective director, cary fukunaga. So, what is the endgame for netflix . Joining us from l. A. Is the senior media analyst at renttrack and our reporter who is in toronto right now. Are you hearing oscar buzz about this movie . Guest as you said, it is going to open to the main audience, but it has already screened at two festivals in the past week or so, venice and telluride. Those are much more art type festivals that really toronto is one of the biggest festivals of the year, along with cannes. It also plays to a mainstream audience. If you go to this, you will see the film and get the real reaction. So far, the buzz is positive. E
Today. Our road map begins with priceline. Shares falling what is driving the stock down . An 8. 5 billion deal creating a timber giant. And are big changes ahead at yahoo . Stocks make it a lucky seven. The three major indices in the midst of a winning streak. Small caps posted strong gains last week with the russell up 3. 25 percent. Jim, exports down 6. 9 in china, double the estimate. The consumer, this is what were focused on. Weve got singles day coming up. I think that will be the biggest day ever. Theres a propensity to recognize that maybe the government did the right thing by focusing on the consumer. The bulk rate shouwed you nothig will happen there. Theyre spending. Wage rates have gone up dramatically the last few years. Well above mexico. In china youre saying. Twice of what mexico is. They talk about 270 Million People in the middle class, theyre going 540 Million People over the next ten years. The numberses are incredible when you think about it in terms of where they
To date, because the dow turned negative year to date. Just holding is had barely above water with 2 gains and the nasdaq up at 7 because ash stocks have led the way far as the big winners of this year. Loser is our energy stocks. If you look at the imap for today, you will see industry groups, energy is the big loser of the s p trade. Down 4 . Telecom, consumer staples, utilities the only gainers. David commodities are leaving the selloff . My producer has done something very cool. He put together a few boards im going to show you the commodity and related stocks moving down because of that commodity. Kicking it off with crude oil. You see it is down 5. 5 . Really unbelievable. 80 for a barrel of west texas intermediate. Unbelievable fall. And chevron down almost 3 . The biggest losers on the Dow Jones Industrial average. Net gas has been falling almost as much as crude. Down 16 . These are the biggest percentage losers on the s p today. Take a look at copper. Freeport matt moran down