Today. Stocks higher as the president returns to the white house plus two big steps in the race for a vaccine sending shares of biontech and vir higher. And battles over how to regulate big tech over a yearlong antitrust investigation republican ken buck from colorado will join us to discuss the gops concerns about too much regulation. Power lunch starts right now welcome to power lunch. Im dominic chu. Check out shares of boeing, one of the biggest losers, down more than 2 as it says the pandemic will hurt Aircraft Sales for the next decade. American airlines delaying boeing 737 max Pilot Training as it awaits the faa to recertify the plane. And the reopening trade is reactivated on some of the positive vaccine headlines that kelly just mentioned on air and then of course the energy trade on fire right now, one of the best performing sectors as crude oil jumps, now up 9 in just the past two days. Watch those trades, the energy sector, very, very much on the up side there. Kelly, ill s
Not surprisingly tech stocks are holding up the best today. Bob is looking where we stand on earnings about halfway through the season and our tech team will get us ready for what to expect tonight josh lipton on apple julia on facebook. Bob, lets start with you. Kelly, earnings are a little bitter than expected the market is holding up pretty well because of that the big winner here remains technology stocks. Why shouldnt it just look at the Second Quarter earnings estimate. You heard of what a disaster the sec quarter is 38 for the Second Quarter this is almost the same for the Second Quarter technology will have a small decline. Thats why tech keeps winning. Look at lam research they make semiconductor equipment. The ceo said covid19 has underscore the rapid growing on reliance look at the chart up 28 good Earnings Report but straight up since the bottom in march. Telemedicine is killing it look at these numbers here 2. 8 million visits in the Second Quarter. 200 growth. They raised
Twitter shares soaring on a rumor the company is looking to build a Subscription Service a source close to the situation tells me that a Subscription Service is one of many Revenue Generating options that twitter is considering, but that no announcement in that area is imminent Ceo Jack Dorsey has said hes kicked around the idea of creating a subscription tier and twitter management has talked about building new revenue stream the focus on new ways twitter could make money as tiktok opens a new platform senator tom cotton warned americans against use ticktock. Secretary of state mike pompeo said late monday that the United States was looking at banning chinese social media apps including ticktock. Ticktock responded to pompeo by pointing to the companys new american ceo, former disney executive kevin mayer, saying we have never provided user data to the Chinese Government nor would we do so if asked. I want to go to dan nathan first. As i recall, dan, you had fast pitched twitter back
Left in the session. Yeah. And, of course, it is that holiday shortened trading week so were watching this closely coming up on the show tesla shares surging up another 8 on the day. Tripled in the last six months were going to break down that move with former ford ceo mark fields and the Treasury Department says it has finalized terms of new loans to major American Airlines well speak with the ceo of Hawaiian Airlines in few minutes as well. Lets focus in on the big stories were watching in general today. Mike santoli is looking at market valuations with the dow above 26,000 Steve Liesman is breaking down todays better than expected jobs numbers and how to square the conflicting messages were getting about the economy. Meg tirrell monitoring cases weve seen in some states which dampened Market Sentiment when reported and Kayla Tausche is standing by for disclosures about who received billions in emergency aid from the government, but mike, first lets go to you. We have a tidy little r
Let that sink in for a moment. 16 just this week were not even done. President trump announcing a travel ban on all nonu. S. Citizens coming in from europe were awaiting details on a stimulus plan or domestic response to ensure containment mitigation and increased testing capabilities right here in the u. S. Were talking to three ceos today. Group one auto, redfin and verizon ceo about how these companies are dealing with the fall out and what the impact of this virus will be on the overall economy. Lets get right to our reporters covering the story for us rick ismonitoring the action i the bond action. We begin with steve on the phone with the latest on this move by the fed. Its been about an hour for markets to digest it people are still trying to figure it all out here it looks like the Federal Reserve is going to do a series of masds ifr operations to put it this way, it will be a trillion dollars a week in the following ways a half a trillion dollars was done at 1 30 today a half