Doses ready to ship once they get the green light and speaking of green light, joe biden wants to go ahead and raise Corporate Taxes, he is tapping his inner Bernie Sanders and outlining his economic plans using terms like fair share and calling for an end to what he calls shareholder capitalism. We are all over that story you can bet. We may hear the president s response to mr. Bidens plan shortly, he will be leaving for an event in florida this hour. We expect he will speak to reporters before boarding marine one as he likes to do and you will certainly see that right here when it happens. You will also see very little let up in the tech rally, despite theyre down day overall, the big tech names holding their own with more record gains. Amazon, it is hit an alltime high for six days in a row. Not bad. Apple, not much of a pullback of the stays above 380 a share, same story for microsoft, not much of a drop there, for microsoft still at 213 box. Facebook is above 240, despite constant
It is a big bet disney is starting off slow with the Magic Kingdom and animal kingdom, two of its five orlando parks with limited capacity. This is a very big deal for disney to start the staged reopening of disney world after closing both of its domestic parks on march 14th. Yesterday it started reopening downtown disney. Thats the outdoor mall by its anaheim park it mandated masks and social distancing there this is an important moment for disney parks and resorts which last year was the largest with Revenue Generating about 35 of revenue in 2019. Its estimated disney lost more than a billion dollars between april and june at those domestic parks because of those closures. The opening of disney world will be a key test of what consumer demand for the parks could look like especially since disneys orlando park sees more traffic from out of state visitors than the california parks which are smaller. Obviously the anaheim park has less guests that stay overnight where orlando has a big
Quarter gdp. All coming up at 8 30 a. M. Eastern and investor reaction. Reaction from u. S. Labor secretary Eugene Scalia, hes here live at 8 30 a. M. Eastern. Ahead of the numbers, markets mixed. Markets surged yesterday but this morning dow futures up 75 but the s p and nasdaq futures negative. This on top of yesterday when the dow closed above 25,000 for the First Time Since march tenth with big rally yesterday at the close on wall street. As you see the dow industrials up 553 points at the close yesterday, nasdaq was up 72 and s p 500 yesterday up 44. President trump versus social media. White house reportedly set to take executive action to hold companies responsible for stiffing free speech and the Michael Flynn controversy deepens this morning. Attorney general william barr announcing brandnew investigation more unmasking, looking at what happened before and after the 2016 election. Plus major travel destinations returning, las vegas resorts ready to welcome guests once again, d
Latest kayla . Melissa, this effort by the white house to target social Media Companies for a perceived bias has been under way for nearly a year, but in the wake of twitters Fact Checking President Trumps own tweets, policy officials rushed the executive order out today. Heres what is in it which the president signed this afternoon. Agencies from the fcc to the ftc and many other agencies in between are directed to review liability shields that are provided to these content companies that protect them from lawsuits over what appears on their platforms. The department of justice are directed to organize state attorneys general to enforce the crackdown. The federal government is also going to be issuing a widespread review of taxpayer dollars that are going to these platforms in terms of the governments own ad spending and all of this is expected to happen over the next 30 days. These agencies are supposed to report back and these funding totals are supposed to be submitted to the offic
Jobs falling by almost 3 million but much less than what economists were expecting. Coming up on todays show, as more companies address the rising tensions in america, well seek with ursula burns, the first black ceo of a fortune 500 company, about how Business Leaders can work for real equality and change. Well Talk Solutions with her. Plus the ceo of etsy will join us to talk about what his company is doing to address societal issues and how the coronavirus has changed his business the big stories we are watching in this final hour of trading, as we look at session highs, mike santoli tracking the market rally. Leslie covering boeing and more on the vaccine front. Mike, start us off with another day and another big rally. A big one this was a day it seems you had a lot more people who decided they had to quit fighting the rally. An acceleration to the upside. Take a look at a oneyear chart of the s p 500 weve been talking about this in here, 3,130 the number. Weve been pointing out t