Twitter and facebook scheduled to testify before the Senate Commerce committee on wednesday. Examine whether that content liability shield section 230 is still relevant and needed. This is one of the days in the market, im not sure what is happening in the overall dow matters so much to the tech story. April sl about flat on some promising iphone 12 order lead times. Then if you look it at the nasdaq zoom is up amazon, etsy maybe thats some halloween eagerness. Yeah, a bit of a mixed bag today, jon you have the stay at home names you mentioned. Tech broadly lower weve got that doubleheader again this week. A hearing following by earnings from the Big Tech Companies. And its interesting, looking at facebook and alphabet this month, theyre actually outforemaniou outperforming the big tech names. Alphabet is up 8 . Facebook up 7 again, we see the theme. The pressure is on in terms of antitrust and regulatory scrutiny yet, the stock prices not really reacting those are the two names that h
Going forward what lesson should policymakers learn from this recent rise of populism on both the left and the right . Today i were discussing these issues with two great guests, first Casey Mulligan is professor of economics at university of chicago and he served as chief economist for the council of economic advisers in the Trump Administration from september 2015 august 20 because most recent book released last month is your hired, untold successes and failures. Michael strain is a john scholar and director of Economic Policy studies here aei, the author of the American Dream is not dead but populism could kill it, released in february of this year. Heres how the event is going to go. To start up k she will speak for about ten minutes and then mike will offer a ten minute response and after that we will have a Panel Discussion for a while, and towards the end of the discussion about 10 45 we will do a q a so please submit your questions on twitter with the hashtag ask aei econ. With
You can see individual markets and you can see how we are seeing most of these north asian performers here. Hong kong is up about. 6 . We just heard from carrie lam who said the social distancing measures may be on for a while in the city. Jakarta coming on pretty strong. We are counting down to that rba Rate Decision and the budget announcement. Super tuesday in australia. We take a look at the yield curve as well. That will be the story here. A massive steepening overnight. Take a look at the two and the 10. As well as the 30 year. That yield reached the highest since june as we continue to price in this blue sweep. Powell the fed chair jay speaking later on. We will watch the aussie 10 year. 89 business points for the aussie tenure. The dollar also selling off on expectations of more fiscal stimulus. You do have the aussie as well. That has been gaining ahead of that dual announcement coming through. Heading closer to 6. 7. Haslinda we want to show off u. S. Live pictures. Mike pomp
The dow falling as much as 600 points before turning around and briefly going positive only to end the day down. 5 the nasdaq led the losses. What a session, guy, following yesterdays big selloff. What do you make of the action, guy . Interesting mel and i text before the show she asked if this was an old tie or a new tie i pulled it out for this fridays show. What do i make of this i mentioned im looking for an open lower spend the rest of the day rallying into a long weekend. We sort of got that. The late day selloff concerned me a little bit. Theres a rotation in the financials and the fact that the vix which spiked above 38 closed lower on the day i think you have something to think about for both sides of the equation, both bulls and bears as we head into this long hollywood weekend. What i thought was interesting about the session and maybe this is a head scratcher, is that bonds are selling off throughout the session and remain lower we got the yields going up to. 72 on the teny
Flat tire. He is on the squawk news line. What happened . Flat tire first day back with my driver. We are on 78 which leads to the new jersey turn pike which is where andrew was the other day we are getting close to the lincoln tunnel i had to wait and have another driver pick me up. That worked. The only problem was we got a flat in the express lane we had to pull over on the median with semis going by on both sides the whole car was shaking. I was like, okay, ill never be there again. So i take it, you changed the tire i could have. The first thing i did was say, look, youve got to go over that median and get over to the right. Thats just asking for a problem. Seriously dangerous at 6 30, i will be there at 6 20 there might be a correction coming you guys can explain to me honeywell . I thought it already was it was in, it was out and back in i think this is the First Time Since 2013, well see three dow components come out. Now good luck. We are going to see changes coming i will tel