Of the surge in new cases. Ill have more on that in a moment. We are getting new information on the twitter hack. It wasnt just a handful of celebrities. 130 accounts were targeted and it appears to have been an inside job. That is serious stuff. Im not sure that Twitter Twitter is up, thats right. Im thinking of another stock. Okay, twitter is up just a fraction. It is serious stuff about twitter. Weve got an analyst on the show who says it might have been a test run for something much bigger. Time to drop your twitter account . We will ask the question and get an answer. More on that coming up, too. Lets get to the market. This week we have seen a shift away from big tech and towards smaller companies. The russell index of small cap stocks, for example, up 3 this week. The dow industrials, down just over 2 . This morning, we will open with a nice gain for the dow, up maybe 100 points, 26,600. Look at the nasdaq. Theres a bounceback for you, up 100 points at the opening bell. All righ
Plans to their state as soon as today. Preparing for one possible second wave. What one ceo says hes getting ready and doing. You are watching on this wednesday, may 27, 2020 on cnbc. Good morning welcome from wherever in the world you may be watching. Im Brian Sullivan thank you for starting or ending your day with us on cnbc it is turning out to be quite the holiday shortened trading week futures are up again right now session highs. Nasdaq also up about a percentage level about the same. Dow futures have been gaining ground since opening up in the red following yesterdays big stocks move higher squarely focused on two things number one, the hope around the vaccine and the optimism around the rebound as more move forward with their opening plans d. C. Targeting next week, parts of long island opening today. Sooner than many had expected given earlier concerns the case of new growth rates and hospitalizations have come way down even those who get sick tend to ride it out and recover.
Americans during this coronavirus pandemic social dense distancing is very important in our daily lives in no different here thats why we are so far apart to maintthasocial distance were practicing the guidelines to the centers for Disease Control recommends. And we encourage you to do the same thing. Tonight around the world more than 8,800 people have died from the coronavirus is with more than 218,000 cases reported globally. There are more than 9,300 cases in the United States with the death toll up to 150 in california, the total number of cases up his up to 865 with 16 deaths. These tallies come from Johns Hopkins Medical Center and we have that centers interactive map on our website you can see it at kron 4 dot com. As the outbreak grows so do the questions about how long this will continue to affect our day to day lives particularly for families how are schools responding now that campuses could be closed for the rest of the summer. Well boys grant lotus is here to explain what
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