Serving up a heaping helping of the favorite food and the names they leave as left overs we begin with what else you knew it was coming. You hear the music you see the clock. That time of year again, yes its the countdown to christmas, just 27 days, 6 hours, 59 minutes, to get all the shopping done but as we head. Favorite time of year so is guys. As we head full steam in the retail rush, one name has all of our heads scratching its amazon, the stock seems stuck, lagging peer this is year down 11 from the the 52week high as gear up for the most important time of the year for retail is amazon leechgt investor was a giant lump of coal, guy. Fifrm i love the Gwen Stephanie song it puts you in the holiday mood. I tell you people at home dont see it but i get the nastiest looks from dan. They can imagine it. Doesnt take much to imagine that. Its hump day and gobble, gobble my favorite thing ever. Best day of the year. Whats the problem with amazon technically major double tops at 2050 we ta
Markets where startups and Venture Capital wont even go because dominant players are so big. Now, the committee is saying that it is getting pushback from Internet Companies who allege that they actuallyvation and not well bring you all the latest back to you. Thank you well be back with you joining us to break down the are market action, megan, good afternoon to you lets check the markets. Dow is flat. S p down 0. 03 , and of course any positive close for those three would be a record alltime closing high megan, relative softness today compared to of late. What do you think is driving that part of it is trade we heard words from President Trump around the risk of higher tariffs and that is something that weve been particularly cautious about we did get a trade truce if you will at the g20 but nothing really changed there. And so i think that what we saw is a little bit of weakness from the market on the back of the reality that we could get higher tariffs down the road. But that is co
Wont believe how many people think they have a shot against the tennis star is. It is monday, it is july 15th fbn am starts right now. Good morning everyone im shale cheryl. Good morning im Lauren Simonetti on this sunny bright monday green arrow across the board and nasdaq up 9 points. Theres a lot of talk about negative yield and if theyll hit the u. S. Well not the case right now. The tenure is at 2. 14 . Were watching oil after Tropical Storm barry cut more than 70 of Oil Production down in the gulf as you can see were up just two cents but above 60, 6023. Take a look at asia on that weak gdp number out of china. Shanghai composite up 1. 5 . South korea down 5 . For the japanese market now europe kind of a mixed bag but flat there you have the cac 40 lower the dax is slightly highser. Fasten your seat belts everybody it is one busy week for wall street. Second quarter earning season kicks off today. The spotlight will be on the financial companies. 25 Financial Firms in the s p 500
In europe, also eagerly anticipating the jobs report fractional losses across the board with the dax down 0. 2 a check on treasury yields, we have yields, the tenyear specifically, the lowest level since november of 2016 1. 96 on the tenyear. The 30year at 2. 47. The countdown to the employment report is on. Forecasters polled say the u. S. Likely added 165,000 nonfarm jobs in june the Unemployment Rate is expected to hold steady at 3. 6 . If those predictions are right, it wont likely be enough to discourage the fed from cutting Interest Rates later this month. Well have a lot of predictions about all of this. A developing story off the coast of gibraltar British Royal marines interce interceptintercep intercepted a super tanker they believed the super tachktar was heading to a syrian oil rig. Iran has demanded the tankers release. U. S. National security adviser john bolton praised the move calling it excellent news. Wti is down a percent. And samsung saying its Second Quarter profit
Department of history of science and technology at Johns Hopkins university and the author of beyond bakelite leo bakelund and the business of science. Excuse me. Science and invention were also joined by Hugh Karraker the great grandson of leo bakelund and the executive producer of the documentary all things bakelite which will be seeing a little clip from this evening. Bud micaterian awardwinning author and filmmaker whos currently doing research on leo bakerland and his journals and our moderator dr. Jeffrey michael professor of american studies at the university of texas at austin and the author of american plastic a cultural history. So please everybody join me in giving a great big march training house. Welcome to our guests this evening, please join us. It takes a moment for all them to get on camera and mike so here with us. Welcome and good evening, all of you. Thank you so much for being here with us tonight. Even though the pleasure so jeff as our moderator when the time com