Which could be a challenge for the president. He won wisconsin four years ago, but now hes bringing a message that the coronavirus pandemic is Getting Better when things in wisconsin are getting worse. Both president ial candidates land in wisconsin today, the state announced new restrictions this week to deal with an explosion of coronavirus cases. The New York Times reports half the nations cities with the highest covid rates are here. We can prevent the deaths of people in wisconsin by staying home. Reporter President Trump insists things are Getting Better. Its rounding the turn. Its rounding the turn. Reporter but yesterday 90,000 people tested positive, shattering the previous record of 80,000 just the day before. More than 9 million cases in the u. S. And more than 200,000 lives lost. Im not going to shut down the country. Im going to shut down the virus. Reporter joe biden criticized the president s crowded rally in florida. Spending more than just coronavirus, hes spreading di
0. 719 andrew and we have numbers to bring you this morning from United Health group just out with its quarterly numbers. Reporting Quarterly Earnings of 3. 51 per share. It beat the consensus estimate of 3. 09 revenue also above forecasts, saying that medical care trends that had been disrupted by the pandemic are moving closer to normal you are looking at that stock up just marginally this morning and we have three more financials, bank of america this hour, Goldman Sachs in the 7 00 hour and then wells fargo in the 8 00 hour. Joe. Thankthanks, andrew. Another Clinical Trial halted over safety concerns, eli lilly late stage trial has been paused by u. S. Health regulation tors it used a Health Sample from one the first patients recovered from coronavirus ill given you more details. Because it leaves out something important. Of the trials ongoing of the antibody, they decided to add remdesivir along with the antibody and that is when they had to halt the trial for some kind of safety
The 27,700 level. Remember, it was 18,000 on march 23rd. The s p, what, nearly 3400. New alltime high. The nasdaq well over the 11,000 mark. Who would have thought of that. Add it all up and yes, we are now in a brand new bull market. Heres another reason for the rally. Terrific performance from major retailers, target, out today with a blowout report. Online sales nearly tripled. It was targets best overall growth rate ever. That stock is going straight up. Add this to the numbers from walmart, home depot and its clear the major retailers won big by staying open in the lockdown. Really, though, kind of tough on the smaller operators. Got to get to it. The convention, boring in my judgment. Tv ratings way down. Wheres the excitement . Everything is on tape and the whole thing lacks the spontaneity of a live crowd. The performance of the old guard, bill clinton, john kerry and a grim chuck schumer. The bright spot was aocs oneminute appearance. She nominated Bernie Sanders. The democrat
Offers a fiery review of his predecessor. Air b b filing the paperwork following a rough year for that industry intel announcing a 5 billion buy back as tech faces slumping shares it is thursday, august 20, here on cnbc. Good morning. Im dominic chu in for Brian Sullivan stock futures indicating some modest losses. The dow lower by 100 points. Thats an improvement over the last hour. S p off, the nasdaq off by about 20 points. These are losses now after chinas comments saying the country and the United States will hold trade talks in coming days after the talks fizzled. The Central Banks comments knocking the s p 500 from a new intraday high we hit the stock of the morning so far is apple, becoming the first u. S. Listed company to get a market cap of 2 trillion. Doubling valuation in just over two years. For those wondering, a 3 trillion value for apple would be at 761 per share that will happen right before the stock split. We have Geoff Cutmore in the london news room the color of t
Giants of silicon valley. 10 trillion in market cap. Adam lashinsky, from fortune, both fox news contributors. Along with former investment banker carol roth and tech expert lance ulanoff. Thank you so much for joining us. Scott, first to you, which of these stocks will move the market, move the most after the bell. Given where we are during the pandemic and kind of where the consumer is i think it is an amazon story and not because amazon is retail and tech with Amazon Web Services youre getting a little bit of both. Youre getting a little bit of tech with amazon and certainly get the retail exposure. Amazon in some cases, david, by some estimates is pushing a hundo billion of revenue. That incredible for reporting services. That is a big tech titan. A big retail titan. That is why it holds so much water. David adam, call me oldfashioned i look at apple of the four stocks, because sometimes they low ball numbers before the earnings come out and investors are surprised when they do. Fr