Significance, that infection rates fall after lockdown orders are lifted. Repeat, thats jpmorgan saying that. Big deal. All right. Now listen to this. Scuffles between probeijing and prodemocracy hong kong legislators. Why are hethey doing that . Thats the wrong tape. Show me the legislators scuffling, please. China just moved to take control. Those freedoms promised to hong kong when the british left are being wiped out. U. S. china relations turning very sour. Initially, that didnt go down well on the market. Futures turned south but then substantially recovered. Right now, were up about 20 points for the dow, modest gain for the s p, tiny, actually, fractional loss for the subpo p. This is a very important day. You will see the president at the white house saluting veterans. You will hear from officials and businesses across the nation about the great opening up. And we will tell you what you are allowed to do this weekend, and where you are allowed to do it. Varney company is about
A virus lockdown winner has emerged. Its walmart. They have had the advantage of remaining open and they finetuned their delivery and pickup services. They have done very well. Look at this. Same store sales, up 10 . Huge. Sams club sales up 12 , even bigger. Ecommerce, now, this is a big one, up 74 , online sales. That is remarkable. The stock, we are quoting premarket now, the stock is up nearly five bucks, 3. 8 . Okay. This is going to be a live action day. Two top money guys head to capitol hill. Speaker mnuchin, jay powell, they will be discussing what they think still needs to be done for the economy. You want my opinion, please give us Liability Protection. The president addresses the nations farmers. What do they need and whats with the Food Supply Chain. We will carry his speech live. Thats in our 11 00 hour this morning. Then theres the market. After yesterdays 900point gain. That rally followed encouraging news on a vaccine from moderna and the rapid reopening of the economy
Can i think you and your team at the conservative Central Office for doing a fantastic job . Its been a team effort and shown the conservative family at its best. If i could make one plea as a backbencher, can we be kinder to the next Prime Minister then weve been to the current Prime Minister . [applause] without further delay, im going to hand you over to the one for cochair to the wonderful cochair of the committee. [applause] thank you very much, charles. On the 24th of may, the Prime Minister, the right honorable theresa may, announced that she would be standing down as leader of our party on the seventh of june. Over the past 46 days, the 1922 committee organized five ballots of members in parliament, and then worked with the Party Chairmen and Electoral Reform services to present the final two candidates. They are qualifying nubbers of the conservative and unionist parties that can vote for our new leader. I want to echo charles thanks to brandon, the party board, and the party
Vision fund. Oh, snap. Bullish bets payoff. Four more users per day than percted far more users day than expected but can growth keep up . Department of justice is set to open a broad antitrust review into big tech. They are looking specifically into whether u. S. Tech companies hurto big that they competition. Joining us to discuss, tom got gurman, and, mark ben rhody in washington. Ben we dont know a whole lot. We are looking at here is a sort of complement to a task force that the federal trade commission announced. Doj share antitrust oversight. What is especially interesting that theye believed had split up the companies, the doj would only be looking at google and apple. Now it looks like they could be looking at something more highlevel. They could be doing criminal referrals to other parts of the agency. These companies could be facing scrutiny from both agencies. Emily the doj had taken oversight over alphabet and apple. The ftc was going to be looking at facebook and amazon.
Street, which he must avoid a damaging no deal divorce at all costs. Shery later in Bloomberg Technology global link, we will talk about the Justice Department investigation into whether big tech has been stifling competition. First, thats get you started with a quick check of how the markets closed tuesday session in the u. S. The s p 500 closed at the highest level in more than a week, up 7 10 of 1 . Rising for a second consecutive session. We have some strong earnings coming from the likes of cocacola, united technologies. Not to mention lockheed martin. We also had Investor Confidence that a deal would be struck when it comes to suspending the u. S. Debt ceiling. In the afternoon session, we got news that ambassador lighthizer could be going to china next week for the first highlevel trade negotiations since may so that really spurred Investor Confidence. The dow gaining 7 10 of 1 . Almost every sector in the green in the s p 500 and hit higher by industrials and materials. The nas