Markets looking to start the week to the upside. Futures inching higher this morning take a look there. The dow jones up about 71 points the nasdaq up about 63, and the s p 500 indicated higher by just about 10 points. This after markets finished a little change on friday. Retail, of course, and focus this week earnings expected from heavy hitters including walmart home depot lohse and target fighting back former mcdonalds ceo steve easter brook is slamming lawsuit from the company over his severance his defense later this hour. And heat wave, brutal temperatures hit the west, threatening the power grid in california. Plus, the state of travel airports bracing for a whole new world of changes at checkin what you need to know before heading to the airport. Mornings with maria is live right now. And were taking a look at the european markets edging higher as well. Take a look there the ftse higher and now investors are keeping the focus on travel restrictions, and u. S. China trade tensi
Record close and we know why. I have to tell you this was just a parade of both American Ingenuity and strength there was a time when i was listening to brian i shouldnt just limit it to amazon every Conference Call last night with the exception of google was incredible the power of these companies is extraordinary and i dont think that we can actually brian ol staff ski when he talks he is the cfo of amazon, when he talks about the idea that basically we didnt know we were going to make billions of dollars more than we did. Not tens of millions, not hundreds of millions, but builds what a juggernaut. Most impressive of last night. David, i have a lot of good things to say about the others and good things to say about google, but amazon thankly is a company that basically has no idea how much money it can make. Ive never seen a company like this theres never been a company like this. Well, and the market agrees with you and investors have for a long time, jim, but they have delivered o
And clouds as Steve Paulson has been telling us all morning long, nice, cooler weather. And sometimes it makes comfort foods even more appetizing we are celebrating one of americas favorite comfort foods today, National Mac Cheese day. In honor of the occasion there are Companies Offering special deals on twitter and stauffer is offering 10 lucky winners 10 free mac cheese products, check out their giveaway treat and noodles and company is offering awards members of free small bowl of mac cheese with the purchase of any regular entrce. Mike i will start with you, during this pandemic and even before mac cheese is a staple in the household and it is good comfort food. Kids usually like it, i know you are picky eater so are you a fan . Yeah i am definitely a picky eater though i have been opening up my palate more. I will say this, we have the craft mac cheese and they come in the many bowls and you put water and like a minute 30 in the microwave, they will not always finish them and ill
Diego, it will be Online Learning only for the rest of this year. That is shut down. The l. A. Teachers union demanded medicare for all and the defunding of the Police Department as a condition for reopening. What has that got to do with education . Leftist politics rules and the largely minority student body in Southern California will be deprived of a meaningful education. All right. Lets talk about money. Earnings season has begun. Look at delta. Lowest revenue in 30 years, 3 billion forked out for virus expenses, burning through 27 million a day. That shows you how tough it is for airlines these days. The stock down a little premarket. Overall, a tiny bounce back for the overall market. Big tech largely in the red this morning. We do have some decent earnings from some big banks and thats giving the markets a very very modest boost. The dow is looking for a very small gain, maybe up 10 or 12 points. And we have the s p and nasdaq on the downside. Thats premarket. All right. Now loo
Seeing a lot of treatment claims. Getting the streets attention. This company appeared virtually out of nowhere. Progress to likes of regeneron, becton dickinson, benefiting from the 1. 6 billion u. S. Government commitment. You have makings of something down the pike that could treat the virus, maybe as soon as the end of this year, in the case of some of these phase 3 advanced trials, maybe as soon as the fall of this year. But being coast to coast were all over the place on all these other developments including out in california where they are extending shutdown provisions now expanding to include virtually all businesses, indoor dining, barbershops, salons, tattoo parlors, you name it. Also focusing on whats going on in florida right now a big spike in cases but as stuart was just telling you some confusion about how many of those cases are indeed positive. Weve got the the latest going on in texas, where the spike in cases is so severe theyre looking at crowded hospital beds. Ree