Communities with inclusion and id like to take a moment to recognize our members attending today. They continue to be the background of support for the club and help enable us to offer wonderful and diverse programming now and in the future and we also like to welcome members of the 20 20 class of fellows with rising nexgen business. [inaudible] its an honor for me to introduce our special guest today, trustee at the economic club, deanna mulligan. Deanna was chief executive officer in 2011 and served in that role until this month. She joined in 2008 the Vice President to leave the company in its Spiritual Life and was appointed to presidency operating officer assured as a trustee on the board of the vanguard group, a position she held since 2017 and has a background in both energy and operational themes. [inaudible] she was previously a director on the board of arts council and active in the industry and in the daa and directors of life insurers and the department of Financial Service
1. 9 trillion. Also some comments on timing. A a lot of comment from the white house. Tesla is the stock afterhours. Trying to eke out gains. Looks like it will. Ahead of Earnings Report we expect to come out during this hour. Well cover that. Analysts look for any sign that tesla meets delivery target fore2020. The number to watch is 500,000 vehicles. 500,000 on deliveries. Remember that when tesla comes out. Today our swing state economy series brings us to south st. Paul, minnesota. Weve been speaking to people on the ground as President Trump wants to flip this state red. He has less than two weeks to do so. Well hear about Business Owners and how the economy impacts the vote. Were ask our host, with a local business running here since the 1800s at the same location. How they weathered the pandemic and over times. They make fire hydrants and Fire Suppression equipment. Real interesting american company. Well talk a lot about that later in the hour. Fox Business Team coverage of our
Thats the worst performance in two weeks. The dow has been down. Nasdaq have been down five out of six the tech selloff was worst it continued down 3 led lower by stocks like apple the same old story big volatility coming. Those are really the tail thats been wagging the dog for a while. Youll see the nasdaq is lower once again the other two averages hanging in there the s p on the flat line nasdaq down another 50 points. Fur watching what is happening over the last two months they closed. Dow at the lowest level since the third. The 10year sitting at 0. 66 the story that seems to never end, tiktok. Here we go the owner bytedance applying for an export license in china as it pushes for a deal in oracle and walmart. They did not mention the pending deal and technology it was seeking to support calling the deal dirty and unfair they have no reason to approve it all of this raising questions about that prospect and what that would ultimately look like. What happened earlier in the week we
Progress on u. S. china trade talk as the worlds biggest economies discuss technologies consumption, investments and exports fall sharply during the height of the pandemic President Trump accepts the Republican Party nomination taking aim at the democrats accusing them of, quote, trying to steal the election. We have to be very, very careful. This time they are going to try to do it in the whole post office scam. You can see them setting it up watch them carefully we have to win this is the most important election in the history of our country. Some breaking news coming out of germany this morning. From the eve o from t from the ifo data. 92 92. 6 versus the forecast of 92. 2 you may recall back in april when we saw many lockdowns the data started to cross then and we are seeing recovery in those numbers. The ifo Current Conditions is 87. 9 in august forecast was lower and what we are also seeing in the ifo Expectations Index is up to 97. 5 in august versus a forecast of 98 so slightly
Watch booktv this Labor Day Weekend on cspan2 and be sure to watch the all virtual 2020s National Book festival Live Saturday september 26 on booktv. Good afternoon. Im jane harman, the president and ceo, like me you are probably suffering from zoom 50. However, to in here. This is a very important event and im excited. This is one of the zooms im really looking forward to. Because we are celebrating a new book, an important book by our very own nina janke waits who has done stellar work at the Wilson Center disinformation fellow, the coolest title ever. Since last october. Before that she was a scholar with our institute on russia and ukraine and how to lose information war, russia, fake news and the future of congress. Its an amazing title and is essential reading for everyone on this call and zoom in all your friends. We remember russia Successful Campaign in 2016 to so distrust and confusion in years ahead of the president ial election but in order to win the information war as nin