Door is open for terror and to return to the nuclear deal but there is work to be done. In lebanon protestors defy a Strict Lockdown to confront the government on economic failures and its handling of the pandemic plans. To stop its push on what usually its a little like. A warning for investors about the sudden rise in stock sales of the gaming Retail Company game stop. A team of investigators sent by the World Health Organization is preparing to leave the hotel quarantined in the chinese city of where they have begun their inquiry into the origins of the corona virus the independent scientists to interview people from Research Institutes hospitals and the Seafood Market linked to the initial outbreak a long awaited inquiry comes after months of negotiations between the double a show in beijing covered 19 was 1st detected in in late 2019 lets cross now to katrina you whos in katrina so how is the Chinese Government likely to be to this team and what are they hoping to find given that
Twitter, defending how they moderate content on their social media platforms. Some senators not buying it at all. Well bring you the latest details. Meantime, kelly. Tyler, thank you very much. Weve got all the big stories covered for you today. Bob pisani is watching this big down day for stocks. Meg is tracking the latest spikes in covid cases and ylan mui on this tech hearing on capitol hill today lets start with you, ylan reporter well, kelly, there was a lot of Political Drama during this hearing today but also an important discussion about election security. With all three ceos acknowledging that other countries are trying to interfere in our election, and theyre trying to do it on their own platforms. We do continue to see interference we recently disclosed actions we took on both russia and actions originating out of iran. We do continue to see coordinated influence operation items. Weve been very vigilant we appreciate the cooperation we get from the intelligence agencies and
Masterca mastercard, microsoft and u. P. S. All lower on the back of their results as well. Bund yields and oil are lower. Tenyear yield, 0. 77 . All 11 s p 500 sectors are lower, sharply lower thats the heat map of all s p 500 stocks very few are green as you can see above me just less than 3 of declines for all three of the major indices, sara. We will ask allianz chief economic adviser mohammed elbrian. Monitoring two live events at this hour, expected speech from french president emanuel macron and a statement from dr. Fauci mike santoli covering the market selloff meg tirrell with more details on the covid spike in the u. S. And europe and ylan mui start us off with the selloff, mike starting to do some damage third day in a row for the s p. Its starting to cut a little deeper the hope gave way and did accelerate the down side multiple pressure points on this market causing investors to have a harder time looking across this valley of growth, right covid case cuts. We dont know wh
And as andrew was talking about, with mr. Lansdale, big tech will testify. The ceos of facebook, alphabet and twitter will face questions from a Senate Committee this morning. We, of course, will bring that to you carl guys, a lot of jitters, jim, this morning, as to what macron may say later on tonight, european time. Your point on social media has been this premarket weakness is not about the earnings themselves. Right look we would be in a stay in place order if we adopt what merkel is talking about. We have never been on the same page as merkel when trump came in she is more rigorous about hygiene and about masks and social distancing than our country is our country is not the way of germany. I would say you see chicago close, all the dining places, and restaurants and start thinking about travel, leisure, hospitality, it then bleeds into boeing we have this morning and i think it is impossible to think about boeing without thinking about once you get there, where can you go . I th
Its worst 2nd quarter period on record for the previous worst quarter contraction with a 10 percent drop during the Eisenhower Administration in 1958 but these records dont date back to the Great Depression while hopes one day old on that v. Shaped recovery is Consumer Spending which actually accounts for about 70 percent of Economic Activity it brought down the g. D. P. On wednesday the Federal Reserve chairman powell warned of the lasting damage to the economy of this expectation. Even with the improve Economic News in may and june overall activity remains well below its level before the pandemic and the contract contraction in real g. D. P. In the 2nd quarter will likely be the largest on record. Now this comes as republicans and democrats are working on the one trillion dollar relief package on a looming friday deadline but it appears lawmakers are far from an agreement and they continue to clash during the stalled negotiations. 20 team boeing has had one disaster after another wel