A story of you getting involved in politics. I know you will be standing and cheering and all of that. When mike and i were dating, ago, hes about 37 years told me that he wanted to run for congress, someday in the far future. Got married, he went and asked the county chairman, what should i do if i want to run for congress and represent my hometown in 20 or 30 years . The guy said, run for congress. The best way to get prepared to run for congress is to run. We decided that we are going to do this. We ran for congress in 1988. We decided to run on the theme of faith, family, and freedom. [applause] and we lost. [laughter] we were young back then. Two years went by. We are going to do this again and 1990. We are going to run on faith, family, and freedom. [applause] and we lost. Know, navye, you this was our idea, and may be a was not gods calling on our life. We built our dream home and started our family. Mike started a radio show that was all over the state of indiana. I started a w
Stimulus watch and of course, palantir, we are awaiting the opening trade set to begin really at any moment. Alex karp, the ceo will join us right here on cnbc immediately following the first trade, jon as we said, its been a long road a lot of filings. A lot to read about the company, voting structure, privacy, you name it. And the Business Model at large. Yeah. And its another big, big ipo but very different from snow flake, which we saw which has a ton of customers, large and small and kind of this very broad play on data in the cloud. This is a company thats dealing with big data and has just a few really huge customers, carl. And thats where well start this morning, jon. Josh lipton has more on what to expect once the first trade happens. Hey, josh. Carl, a master of creativity. That is how Ceo Alex Karp describes his company, palantir. A data miner, its software ahows customers to integrate volumes of data into a central platform where it can then be securely analyzed and interpr
Bloomberg surveillance. Im Francine Lacqua in london. A lot a focus is on the bank results yesterday. Many more banks reporting today with Technology Stocks and apple news. We expect a lot of earnings, and pound weakening, something to keep an eye on. Stocks,ook at european travel shares declining on concern of more lockdowns, but financial shares are climbing. Theyd are today, our active etf, new surveys say active equity funds underperformed in the first half of the year. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Good morning. Here in the u. K. , Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing growing pressure to order a National Circuit breaker lockdown. The Opposition Labour Party is calling for increased nationwide restrictions for up to three weeks, after documents revealed the scientific advisors called for that action three weeks ago. The sprint to find a medical breakthrough to contain coronavirus stumbled this week. Eli lilly is the latest company to pause a trial as a safet
It is hip to be square used to be at least. Lets check out u. S. Equity futures. Things are relatively flat and that isa good thing. A bit of a difference after the big swings weve seen. Right now dow futures up about 3, s p 500 up about 2, nasdaq up by 13. Of course this is after a done day for the m down day for the markets yesterday. Treasury yields are something to start paying attention to because we did see a pickup in treasury yields to the highest levels weve seen since june the ten year is yielding 0. 813 . And i know it doesnt seem like a lot, but it is the highest level weve seen in a while and there is so much that rides on that including mortgage pricing which has been a key part of what has been happening in the housing sector, a strong point in the economy so far. Lets get over to washington. Well talk about id call it a soap opera, but really it is a reality show and means a lot to so many millions before nancy pelosi says she is now optimistic that democrats may be abl
The world. We will talk to the head of a major new jersey hospital that was on the frontier a few months ago and still are. Well find out what theyre seeing there and look at how covid has crushed urban real estate power lunch starts right now thank you, at thtyler. Markets are starting with a nice alley and broad base every sector is higher, except Energy Technology leading the way, up more than 2. 5 hi, bob. Seema, its a rally but look under the hood. Theres a very progrowth bias to this. A lot of the reopening stuff is not doing as well. Were getting what i call a big cap meltup here look at this, facebook, amazon, alphabet, microsoft and the volumes have been on the heavy side for this particular sector, mega caps. But only there lets take a look at some of the other stuff, some of the other what i might call workfromhome beneficiaries. Your costcos, your pay pals, and all of the chips are up here today. This is that pro growth bias you talk about look at stocks that used to benefi