Twist. Walmart teaming up with microsoft in a bid for the popular social media app both stocks rallying to new alltime highs on this news. Julia boorstin has the details. The news keeps coming on this one. Reuters just reporting tiktok engineers were told to make contingency plans should it need to shut down u. S. Operations they are preparing for various scenarios including a forced shutdown telling us they are simultaneously developing plans to make sure u. S. Employees continue to get paid on the heels of any outcome. Walmart is teaming up with microsoft to buy tiktok. Walmart telling us, quote, we believe a potential relationship with tiktok u. S. In partnership with microsoft could add this key functionality and provide walmart with an important way for us to reach and serve omni channel customers as well as grow our Third Party Marketplace and advertising businesses dan ives tells us, quote, we believe microsoft buying ticktoticktok would be like Christmas Morning coming early fo
Lineup of guests coming. Federal reserve vice chairman will join us exclusively in a few minutes for his first interview since last weeks fed meeting. Well also pespeak with the ceoo human there is a and a massive afternoon of earnings headlined by disney, ea, beyond meat and activision and well peek with actvisions ceo ahead of his Earnings Calls after the numbers come out as i said, were at 1. 9 with 59 minutes left lets moex fowlkes on the big stories. Meg has new developments on the treatment and vaccine front but mike, lets kick things off with you in the markets yeah, another day of fairly orderly levation in the indexes. Today its a broader rally even though its been led by the big tech stocks. A chart of the s p going 50 0 going back a year, were back up to the upper end of this crash levels last september, october, sort of going back to early 2018, an area where we gave a little friction to the rallies, but clearly, a market is acting as if big investors feel u underexposed to
Gone red as weve gotten more guidance on Net Interest Income on the conference calls. Yeah. Absolutely the banks are in focus as this first day of earning season in earnest really kicks off one of the names im actually focused on that reported this morning is fastenal, distributors, thats what they make and they provide those distributors to quite a variety of industrial excuse me industries and end markets, early indicator of the state of the industrial economy, youre seeing those shares pop today in part because at a time where so Many Companies are cutting their dividends they actually raised their dividend and they noted that theyre seeing product produced significant shifts in business mix and that march sales of the fastener products declined 10 on a daily basis as industrial activity slowed but their safety business grew 31 as they were sourcing and delivering critical ppe supplies to the marketplace why do i bring this up this is essentially what were seeing and i have a feelin
This of course, the saudis are flooding the world with oil right now. The russians, its not clear where the heck they are because theyre very secretive, but i know who is not there, the drivers. Theres very little demand david and i talk about this with you all the time, carl theres this overall sense, you know what, if we just get things moving, things will come back again. We need customers. We need customers to get their hair cut, to go to the dry cleaner, the restaurants, and we need customers on the road without them, i really dont care what president calls who, you need a tariff to keep the to keep the saudi oil from coming here, and you need the chinese to restockpile, and frankly, thats still not going to be enough to be able to make it so oil real demand goes higher good point yeah. Sorry, carl. 6 Million Barrels a day, jim, is what im hearing right now as we still try to adjust. Even know we know each others cadences so well 6 Million Barrels a day here and its not just not j
The pooh so much . After the war there was so much sadness. Then winnie the pooh came along and happiness came out. Goodbye christopher robin, rated pg. In select theaters friday. Now bbc world news. This is bbc world news america. Reporting from washington. Held hostage for five years by the taliban in afghanistan a north American Family is finally free. Cities turning to ash in california, 26 people have lost their lives still missing in the hundreds deadliest wildfire in history. Aipac a problem that is clogging the sewers in london. Welcome to bbc world news america. A couple kidnapped by the taliban in afghanistan five years ago has now been released. A canadian and his american wife were freed by the Pakistan Security forces. Along with their three children who were all born in captivity. President trump describes the rescue effort as a positive moment for the diplomatic ties. We have the full report. Over five long years since these people have been seeing and were released by t