Rice universities Public Policy hosted the event. It is over one hour. Welcome to the Baker Institute webinar. I am steve lewis. The head of our china studies program. We are happy to have you all this afternoon. Thank you for tuning in. I am hoping not only do you find it informative and unique colleague, but froma welcome respite domestic politics, which is never as important as aging asian affairs. I would like to thank all of you again. Our hardworking staff at the Baker Institute. My Research Assistant for helping. The foundation for endowing a lot of the events here. The doctor i have known her for 10 years one of our top scholars. I think it has been 10 years. She was a postdoc here for asian interested in media. Had her and her expertise in many of our past webinars on chinese politics. We are happy to have her again today. Also, we are happy this year because she is newly minted as an associate professor, tenured professor at media studies at the university of virginia. The on
Joe biden got through all 90 minutes without a gaffe or no senior moment and enough energy to say to the president overshot up man. He called him a racist, a liar and the worst american president ever. Mr. Trump came on strong, perhaps too strong, he may have brought sympathy after he attacked his sons drug use. Key issues were lost in the fight, biden were not answer questions about packing the Supreme Court, he was wrong about the economy under President Trump, he tried to walk away from the green new deal, i wouldve liked to heard more about that, the president would not condemn white supremacist and did not fully answer questions about healthcare. My opinion, nobody one, voters who wanted a fight lost. Right after the debate stocks sold off, features showed a 300point loss for the dow but it has come back, perhaps because a lot more talk about a new stimulus plan and a good jobs report from adp, we are looking at a 50point loss for the dow, Minor Leagues loss for the s p and the na
Screen is driven by not the feds comments, a little boring with the zoom box or retail sales that we got or housing numbers. But what is happening at the mornings Research Meetings all over the country today where the down gained 37 points and the s p dipped and the nasdaq lost 1. 25 . More on that later today seemed like it was dominated by the fed in the amazing snow flake ipo and as someone that helped bring the microsoft ipo to goldman sachs, i know a big deal when i see one. More on the demons the deal unleashed. We had a nice rally going today and thats about what is going on behind the scenes every morning they have a meeting where they pitch the sales force on individual stocks and entire industries as buys or holds or very rarely sells after the pandemic got rolling, almost every piece of research that came out cut numbers. For individual companies and suggested the situation would get worse. The conclusion ive never seen so many sell eric men dae eric men dae er recommendatio
City is major spy hub. Markets pointing higher, dow industrials up 52 and the nasdaq up 39 and s p 500 higher by ten minutes. The dow moved 560 points between highs and lows, the Technology Startup set for a big price tag as it readies to go public with offering next week. We have all the numbers coming up. Speaking of tech, amazon unveiled a whole new slew of gadgets to boost gaming experience. Candy craze, more americans are stocking up halloween candy despite no worries of trick or treating this year. Mornings with maria is live right now. Take a look at indices. Things have worsen in the last few moments. Markets in europe poise today see the worst week in june as uk reports rise in coronavirus cases. Mixed story in asia as well,ation markets finishing flat but a mixed story. Japan and korea were up. Hong kong and shanghai were lower. Some of the top stories that we are watching out right now. President trump handing out drug discount cards to seniors as he lays out to America Firs
Long is this going to last . A couple more days. Lets start off with right now, the numbers over my shoulder are the daytime highs and only one broke the record. Santa rosa, record for today would have been 101, you got up to 104. As impressive as those numbers look, this was the easy day. Let me show you how things will play out tomorrow. So for a bunch of representative spots that blanket the bay area, livermore is 109, San Francisco at 91. Here is where we break the records. Livermore, concord, santa rosa and san jose. Conquered by as much as 4 degrees. 103 in san jose tomorrow. And even though 94 in oakland is not breaking a record, still 1 degree shy of it and it will still be a very hot day. Lets get as many other numbers as we can with a quick overview on the screen. Fremont at 101, Mountain View goes to 99 and yes there are heat warnings and advisories all over this map. I check back with the complete forecast i will break down the differences between an advisory and an excessi