Live from new york, at the opening bell, this is business today. Traders tread water on wednesday. Cranking up the voltage on trade tensions. Canada slaps hefty import taxes on electric cars made in china older, wiser, and ready to spend. How businesses are finding a Silver Lining in indias ageing population. Welcome to business today, im Michelle Fleury live from new york. Us markets slip at the open after the record close. More on that any moment. Lets turn our attention to markets, the dow is down two tenths of a percent right now, after the wreck a close yesterday. The snp and nasdaq have not fared so well. Traders are turning away from the Technology Stocks right now. For more on this is the chief market strategist, great to see it this morning. Are you surprised this rally is stalling . What should we read from the dow slipping back slightly . Read from the dow slipping back sliuhtl . ,. , slightly . Good morning, i dont think they slightly . Good morning, i dont think they can
5 00 right now. Covid cases in a nationwide surge. This map shows much of the midwest covered in red meaning a widespread number of new cases. Dark orange shows a significant surge. Thats most of the east coast along with parts of texas which just hit 1 million cases. California a lighter orange but cases here are also on the rise. The cdc has put out its strongest guidance yet on mask wearing citing growing evidence a mask can help protect a person wearing it. The cdc says adopting universal mask wearing policies could help future help prevent future lockdowns. As San Francisco struggles to get ahead of rising covid cases, leaders reopening rolling back plans. Today in the bays Cierra Johnson is live in San Francisco to explain why the city is hardly alone here when it comes to new concerns and confusion, cierra. Reporter yes, good morning. Mayor london breed made that announcement shes pausing some of that reopening, and that includes halting the reopening of indoor learning for high
Of the year and it appears to be playing out minute by minute microsoft confirmed monday that it is in talks to buy tick tock from Chinese Parent Company bite day its now this of course after u. S. President donald trump announced a plan to ban the app in the United States President Trump spoke about the controversial situation monday afternoon. And. He cant be controlled for security reasons but in china too big too. Invasive and it can be and heres the deal i dont mind if theres microsoft or somebody else a big company the Security Company very very American Company by i set a date of around september 15th at which point its going to be out of business in the United States but of somebody whether its microsoft or somebody else is it going to be interesting i did say that if you buy it. Whatever the price is that goes to whoever owns it because i guess its china essentially but more than anything else i said a very substantial portion of the price is going to have to come into the tre
Anything else i said a very substantial portion of the price is going to have to come into the treasury of the United States because were making it possible for this deal to happen right now they dont have the rights unless we give it to them and the Chinese Foreign ministry for their part respond to their reports early monday calling out the u. S. For hypocrisy and double standards in the move while claiming this is a violation of key principles of the World Trade Organization now for more on this lets go ahead and bring in blue bus cohost ben swan and Cyber Security expert todd shipley who also serves as president of dark intel now ben i want to start off with you here lets kind of it appears that microsoft has about 45 days to get this deal done but doesnt it seem strange for the u. S. Government to ban a company and then turn around and basically force them to sell helping an american tech giant to buy. Yeah i think the whole thing is pretty disgusting i mean as this is all playing
President donald trump announced a plan to ban the app in the United States President Trump spoke about the controversial situation monday afternoon. And so he cant be controlled for security reasons but in china too big too. Invasive and it can be and heres the deal i dont mind if theres microsoft or somebody has a big Company Secure company very very American Company buy it they set a date of around september 15th at which point its going to be out of business in the United States but of somebody whether its microsoft or somebody else buys it that will be interesting i did say that if you buy it whatever the price is that goes to whoever owns it because i guess its china essentially but more than anything else i said a very substantial portion of the price is going to have to come into the treasury of the United States because were making it possible for this deal to happen right now they dont have the rights unless we give it to them and the Chinese Foreign ministry for their part r