Is the security of america at risk . And covid continues to peek across the country, once again shutting new york city Public Schools down. With vaccines on the way but still not quite ready, we speak to 23andme ceo Anne Wojcicki. Could their research on genes and covid give us more clues on how to fight it faster . Dropping asstocks fresh resections put in place to limit the spread of covid19 overshadowed positive news. About vaccine develop at Abigail Doolittle has more. Generally the markets were quieter today, but then it fell off late in the day. Abigail truly a sleeper for much of the day. Cyclical rotation trying to take over. As new york city headlines crossed on top of the mta news around the subway. Earlier today, two negative headlines. Of course the second one being that schools are shutting tomorrow until at least after thanksgiving on the 3 seven day rolling Positivity Rate here in new york city, at least according to the mayors office. Looks like the governor may have ha
And covid continues to peak across the country, once again shutting new york city Public Schools down. With vaccines on the way but still not quite ready, we speak to 23andme ceo Anne Wojcicki. Could their research on genes and covid give us more clues on how to fight it faster . All of those stories in a moment, but first, u. S. Stocks dropping as fresh resections put in place to limit the spread of covid19 overshadowed positive news about Vaccine Development. Our Abigail Doolittle has more. Abigail, generally the markets were quieter today, but then it fell off late in the day. Abigail yeah, truly a sleeper for much of the day. Very small, fluctuating moves. Cyclical rotation trying to take over. Then new york city headlines crossed on top of the mta news around the subway. Earlier today, you had these two negative headlines. Of course the second one being that schools are shutting tomorrow until at least after thanksgiving on the 3 , sevenday rolling Positivity Rate here in new york
It is a little unusual for the secretary of state to be involved in politics of any shape or form, but it sure does sound like good theater and im anxious to see if youd see it. David ok, many thanks. You will be back with us tomorrow night. We will have live coverage again of the second night of the Republican National Convention Starting at 10 00 p. M. Eastern time. As we said, secretary of state mike pompeo will be appearing from jerusalem as well as First Lady Melania Trump headlining the night. This is coverage of the Republican National convention on Bloomberg Television and radio. Welcome to Bloomberg Markets asia. Asia looking set for gains after wall street extended its record run, investors increasingly optimistic for a virus vaccine and that the Global Pandemic will not drag on the recovery. One progress,e the u. S. And china held trade talks and say they have made advances and both sides insist they are committed to the deal being a success. Rishaad and the Republican Conve
Infections. Reported more than 200 deaths today. In the markets, we turn our attention to trading volume. It was pretty light but finished up. Momentum has been fading as we near record highs. On any indication of a new Coronavirus Relief plan coming from the white house. On the day, two words sum up today, summer friday. Slow with low volume. The major averages barely moving. In the middle of the day, there was some volatility. At the end of the day, the s p 500 down just fractionally. Bit. Aang index down just a we saw a little bit of weakness in biotech. That is one of the only indexes down for the week. Beneath the surface, it is not quite as dull. Lets highlight two of the big earnings movers. Semicap Equipment Company quarterly Beat Estimates and raised the outlook. They make the equipment that makes chips which suggest there is demand coming from the chips companies and the companies that use chips which is probably every company out there. That might be a longer healthy tell on
Lot going on as stuart did tell you that whole hearing where the tech giants will gather virtually at least. It is parked back maybe half an hour. I was doing back of the napkin guesstimating on their wealth. That is on, i think is worth about 180 billion. Our Charlie Brady follows this thing would know to the penny. I think it is roughly about that. Mark zuckerberg facebook, close to 90 billion, close to 2 billion, tim cook of apple, thanks to appreciation of that stock, he is at around 2 billion. So lets say you were to add all of this. These are numbers. I added it all up. That is 272 billion collectively. These are among the richest men on the planet, particularly when it comes to bezos and zuckerberg. But putting companies combined market cap at north of 5 trillion. If you were to add microsoft to that bunch, microsoft will not be part of this hearing. They represent the five most valuable companies in the world. Isnt that amazing . Youre welcome america. We have this delay. We ha