Has confidentially filed to go despite the pandemic bringing travel to a near standstill earlier this year. Meantime, it is another story sending shockwaves through Silicon Valley. Later this hour the former ceo all of pinterest, Francoise Brougher, will join me for a discussion after suing the company for gender discrimination. But dan ives joins me now. Obviously a big day for apple today. We knew what is coming, but what is the significance of this to trillion dollar milestone . Dan it is a monumental achievement for apple. And i think it just shows these skeptics that three or four years ago that thought growth was over in cupertino, it proved them wrong again. Especially them hitting it before apple and amazon and others. I still think more bullishness ahead. Is up the only way to go . We are still facing a lot of Economic Uncertainty the second half of the year. Consumers not necessarily going to have stimulus checks in their pocket for discretionary spending. What does that mean
We will be joined to talk more about that. But first, lets talk about the market. Abigail doolittle is with us. On the back of a big speech by joe biden last night that has been largely wellreceived, even some republicans saying it was successful. Abigail indeed. Probably not too much influence in the markets today because earlier today on the open, really small moves. It was as the day got going that the gains continued, especially for the tech stocks on the day. A real head scratcher because we have a they were we do not have any positive macro data on economic front, and we also dont have any negative data relative to the macro either except for the further out uncertainty around the election and u. S. And china relations. Here we have the big tech stocks you were talking about once again climbing to the nasdaq 100 and faang index both at record highs. The faang index now up 115 since its march low. Apple is just incredible, up more than 5 today. Split does notck create value. Inter
Special show dedicated to teachers, kids and everyone else whose parents that have been help nothing this unusual time. Congratulations on your fifth greater now turning in to the sixth grader. Thats right. I joke that he is not there yet, but i am sure that we will get there. Yesterday i took the day off and participate in the schools zoom promotion ceremony. It was not what we were hoping for, but still it was emotional and beautiful. I wont quiet say that it was fulfilling in the way, but look. I am not alone. Some 4 million california students have been out of the classroom for months now. We sometimes forget that it happened so suddenly. Big kudos to the teachers that came up with the online lesson plans in an instance. Also, to the parents out there that sometimes struggle to teach their own little ones at home while they were holding down full time jobs. Were going to highlight the incredible work of the california teachers and administrators and california parents. Mike, i know
At risk. You get suicide. You get depression. You get mental problems. One by one, the religious leaders stepped up to the mic to ask why Grocery Stores could be open but houses of worship could not. Cant we reopen under the same conditions that the stores and supermarkets, marijuana clinics, tattoo parlors are opening under . Both bishop barber whose diocese covers 85 churches in alameda and Contra Costa County and Bishop Bob Jackson whose church holds 4,000 parishioners say they already have protocols in place including masks, seating to keep parishioners six feet apart and cleaning and disinfecting of pews after every service. Some say they plan to reopen on may 31st despite what the government says, and to that end they already have legal representation. Our goal to defend the First Amendment right to spread the gospel of jesus christ. Tyler says he has an army of lawyers ready to defend any Church Leaders who defy the governors order and resist arrest. Bishop jackson says he is wi
The things that has happened since the Great Recession is hollowing out of the middle of the labor market. What that means is growth that has been happening has been happening in the highestpaid, highest skilled jobs. Unfortunately the lowest paid jobs have a shrinking. So we focus on making very deep connections with employers in those sectors that do still offer middleaged jobs and then building up Career Pathways, Training Programs in partnership with those employers and health sectors. I will just tell you a little bit more about what that looks like. Looks like connecting people with skill building training, the hard skills, Technical Skills and soft skills for communication skills. Followed by a paid Work Experience in partnership with the employer often paid by the employer and then a direct connection to employment, with a goal of getting people into jobs somewhere in between 40 and 80,000 a year. So communities throughout the country face this issue and every community has a l