One of the most effective. You are about mobility of people and not been mobile. Whats the main lesson or surprise or discovery that you personally have taken from the experience and the last eight months or so . We lost about 80 of our business and eight weeks. We its been about a decade building. That was quiten surprising but the thing that may been more surprising is what happenedis next. What happened next is that people, no matter the circumstances, in the midst of the pandemic still had the desire to travel. They didnt want to get on planes, they were not necessary traveling for business. They didnt want to go to my hotel or they did want to get in the car and go to another community and live in that community and often some of them were getting homes with airbnb. Theres just this fundamental desire that people have to travel, to connect, to see the world and i dont think that anything could stop it let alone a pandemic. People have to do it responsibly but there is still a very
Behind as hurricane laura struck how they saved 19 tiny lives President Trump tours kenosha, wisconsin, the city thats become the countrys ground zero. He blasted Democratic Leaders for allowing antiamerican riots. Jay gray is there with more. Reporter curfew in effect now here in kenosha and the streets have really thinned out. Theres still a few people out but things calming down significantly. You can see the burned out car lot behind me and thats the kind of devastation President Trump saw on the ground. His group met with protesters and there were some screaming battles but no serious issues as a result of the president s visit. After his brief tour he did sit down with the National Guard and other First Responders thanking them for their work here Law Enforcement has jus such a great job working with the National Guard and working with a lot of people, but were here to show our support for kenosha. Reporter as the president sat down here, the family of jacob blake, the 29yearold
Then walmarts answer to amazon prime, we will give you a breakdown of what is included an whats not and finally, white house chief of staff mark meadows will join us live, we will talk stimulus, covid19 and the unrest across the nation thats happening toward the top of this hour and you will not want to miss that. Carl kayla, david, guys, everybody is taking stock of the journey we have had not just in august for stocks, but for the past five months, the dow best fivemonth gain since 2009, for the s p the best five months since 1938 and as we said at the top, david, we are heading into historically the worst month not just in general, but especially during election years, september and october have averaged negative returns and we will talk to mark meadows about politics which are increasingly going to be part of the picture here yeah, no doubt. I think you heard it with the last guest who appeared on squawk box at the very end of that show. We are entering what conceivably could be a
And individual names getting lower. That keeps it pretty much unchanged year to date we have a massive show coming up discuss the latest stimulus negotiations th thats any minute now its the key question for the markets today. And then as the heat gets turned up on big tech, well talk to the always candid ceo about the precious ceos facing testimony tomorrow and the stay at home trend a huge swell of tech earnings coming to day and later this week. Lets start with the broader markets. Mike, over to you. Thank you we have markets on pause for the most part today. Bond market is qui wet yields at the lows stock market, too, is hugging this very familiar area, basically flat on the day. That is an area of attraction. Well see fit lasts for now. It is the defensive factors. The ones that benefit from low yields that are up today, real estate, staples and utilities. Take a look though at a couple of indicators as we wait for the fed decision tomorrow. Whats going on and how quiet the bond m
Lot going on as stuart did tell you that whole hearing where the tech giants will gather virtually at least. It is parked back maybe half an hour. I was doing back of the napkin guesstimating on their wealth. That is on, i think is worth about 180 billion. Our Charlie Brady follows this thing would know to the penny. I think it is roughly about that. Mark zuckerberg facebook, close to 90 billion, close to 2 billion, tim cook of apple, thanks to appreciation of that stock, he is at around 2 billion. So lets say you were to add all of this. These are numbers. I added it all up. That is 272 billion collectively. These are among the richest men on the planet, particularly when it comes to bezos and zuckerberg. But putting companies combined market cap at north of 5 trillion. If you were to add microsoft to that bunch, microsoft will not be part of this hearing. They represent the five most valuable companies in the world. Isnt that amazing . Youre welcome america. We have this delay. We ha