App at the center of the storm. Meantime, travel as we knew it is over according to airbnb ceo brian chesky. He sat down with us for a wideranging and rare interview. To worldd the pandemic war ii. Tankdid teens on tictoc attendance at President Trumps rally in oklahoma over the weekend. Andrew yang will join us to talk about that and the future of the biden and drum campaigns, plus his latest initiative to get Tech Companies like facebook and google to pay you for your data. First, a check of the markets. Stocks rising despite concerns about a resurgence of the virus in different parts of the country. Walk us through the day. You had all three major averages closing higher by 0. 6 or more. Seems to be there consensus that the virus is nowhere near over but there also seems to be consensus that it will not entirely derail the recovery we are seeing. Small caps also were up by about 0. 5 excuse me, 1 . They have been really kind of a proxy for the recovery story, given that they are mor
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group, 275 bi$275 bilper share. the italian government is reportedly ready to inject 15 billion euros into monte dei paschi giving the shares a a boost, after the ailing lender reopens its debt swap offer to investors. lufthansa agrees to mediated talks with the german pilots union, telling investors it s confident it can find a solution to the long-running pay dispute dating back to 2012. goldman sachs raises its oil price outlook for the second quarter of 2017, but warns dollar strength could limit the near-term upside for oil prices. with markets i up and trading this morning, it s a mixed bag. we are struggling for escape velocity in either direction. pretty much flat line on the stoxx 600. the individual indices are really not showing a great deal of conviction at this stage. the cac is flat. the ftse flat. the ftse mib in italy doing a little better, i guess, than the average here. even so, that s a modest gain as far as europe is concerned. i suspect just a bit
other indexes. and a new blend. keurig green mountain agreeing to a buyout and those shares are absolutely soaring. let s get straight down to the trading action this hour. bob pisani is joining us from the flor of the new york stock exchange. how much of the stock market s drop is due to what s happening with oil and energy stocks? oil and the fed are the two things motivating the market right now, but the problem is there is no trend and that s causing a lot of confusion in the last few days. just look what the dow has been doing since thursday. thursday the dow is down 250 points. friday the dow is up 369 points. today the dow is down maybe 200 points, we don t know where it s going to end up but right around there. is your head spinning? mine is. and the trading community is having trouble figuring out where they want to go. fed and oil two big things. you mentioned some big oil names. they re all down 2%, 3%. but we re hitting a lot of new lows in some of the small
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is tossing out tax cutting pledges in a desperate bid to revive the Conservative Party s fortunes but his latest suggestion doesn t go far enough.