World . And another heatwave in the northwest. Wildfires continue to rage in california and colorado. How technology can battle the blaze. But first, stocks ending the week mixed. We saw a tech slide. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying the divide still persisting in stimulus talks with the white house. Lets get the latest from bloombergs abigail doolittle. Abigail another bumpy one. Had decentay we gains for stocks. Options Expiration Date tends to bring volatility. We saw that into the close. Often you have traders that need to hedge on different positions around the options to the underlying security. The nasdaq 100 earlier today up pretty sharply, then closing down about 4 10 of 1 . A bit of a bearish reversal for the nasdaq 100. One of the big drags was amazon giving up big gains on the day. Ay may not have been as inspired as it was last year. Something we talked about earlier this week, since the stock was down both days of the event. Traders for whatever reason, you will see that
It appears that a twitter employee who had access to the twitter Management Panel was compromised and that was the way they got access to all of these otherwise very well locked down accounts. The compromised twitter accounts include bill gates, kanye west and former president obama. Good evening everyone, im frank somerville. And im julie haener. The twitter hack is raising alarms about Tech Security and the potential from anything from election misinformation to stock market manipulation. Live coverage now from ktvus Jana Katsuyama and what we learned about the security breach. Reporter twitter acted quickly to remove the messages that had been placed on the hijacked accounts, but not before the hacker or hackers pulled in 100,000. Experts say its also possible they couldve had access to users direct messages and other data. The scam was a simple message, send money to an anonymous account and get double the funds back. Hacking attack hijacked dozens of highprofile twitter accounts.
Prices double the last couple of months. We have seen demand picking up. Taking a look at other markets, the focus is on chinese equities. They have been fluctuating between gains and losses. The shanghai cob is lower. They are largely flat after what we saw on friday. State funds trimming their holdings. There was the big news of the haltingetf in china trading until 10 30 a. M. This morning. They are saying the warning of thiss involved here tracks some of the largest stocks in shanghai. Take a look at singapore. This is reopening after the singapore election. Retaining the firm grip on power. When he 89 of seats. That is considered the weakest showing ever. Good. Be for stocks some analysts say a de a diverse up three quarters of 1 . We are taking a look at bonds and currencies. We watched the dollar posting the second weekly loss. It comes toing when the belly of the curve for u. S. Treasuries. Reversing some of the gains after we sell yields touch a record low on friday. Lower by
Dow and s p, you know if they keep going at a pace like this they will be at a record pretty soon here. Well be monitoring that. Monitoring true to our name, coast to coast, what is going on around in our fabulous country including in florida where cases are heating up and i mean really heating up. Were in atlanta where the cdc is reporting when it comes to the young, more of the cases are going up for them as well. And in texas, where joe bidens poll numbers are going up and up. One has him in the lead, in the lead in texas. Then, back to washington, d. C. , where the, shall we say dr. Fauci aint all that rhetoric is heating up as well. So weve got a busy couple hours ahead my friend. I hope you had a wonderful weekend. Get latest numbers and stats out of the cdc for that we go to Jonathan Serrie in atlanta. Reporter florida released latest numbers, 12,624 of new cases overnight. Only time that was higher, what they reported on sunday, alltime record not only for florida but any state
We kick it off with blake and the latest from the mt. Reporter melissa and connell, President Trump has threatened to pull federal funding from schools should they not fully reopen in the coming weeks. The president would not go that far when he was asked about the situation out in los angeles and san diego, breaking news from this hour, when the president was asked about it moments ago over here at the white house. Los angeles, los angeles the nations second largest public school, there will be Remote Learning to start off the school year. This is part of the reaction from President Trump, watch. We have to open the schools. We have to get them open. I think there is a lot of politics going along. Think i they will do better if they keep the schools closed in the election. I dont think it will help them frankly. They feel that by keeping schools closed that that is a bd thing for the country. Therefore that is good thing for them. Reporter the white house for the most part has spent t