Biden. Last ditch support efforts for both candidates moving at breakneck speeds. And digital gold. Cryptocurrency on demand with rising prices for bitcoin. You can crypto a lot of things, but dont call it currency yet. Rising aftertocks resuscitated hopes for a spending package. The nasdaq had a modest game game. Abigail doolittle is in new york. Abigail another choppy day. We have not had one day this week when we have not had stocks up and down throughout the day. There has not been when they were that has been the case. We have seen a lot of intraday whipsaw. Investors are pretty nervous. Some uncertainty. The s p 500 is up after spending most of the day down. Up about 0. 3 . Two down Sectors Energy and tech. Not surprisingly, tech being weighed on by intel. The stock one of the only indexes on the date of fall. Day to fall. Data center sales missing down 10 year over year. The guidance tepid as well. At the end of the day, it was a choppy week. Investors dealing with lots of uncer
Dealnews, kicking it off with one of the slew of deals, oracle and tiktok. The u. S. Government will undertake a security review of the potential partnership. Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin said that earlier today and added the deal tiktok would create Tiktok Global and finalists. Joining us now, shelly banjo. Outre waiting for more news of oracle. It still needs approval from the u. S. And beijing. What are the odds this thing actually gets through . Shelley we are far from done. I would say we are just beginning to figure out what will happen. Now the ball is in the Trump Administrations court. Has a set ofktok microsoft, your proposal is not going to fly with us. Were going to go with oracle which provides much more control to keep a lot more control of the companies can previously discussed under a microsoft deal, which would have been outright sale. Trott has been pushing for an outright sale, and many members of the administration had been pushing for an outright sale for many
That Summer Vacation today, youre losing money, particularly if you are a tech investor. On this first trading day of august, the nasdaq aiming for its 29th record close of the year as tech giants from apple, like we were talking about, to microsoft and a whole host of other names, lead markets higher. We have the nasdaq up 176 points right now. Dow is up 274. Youve got to watch microsoft in this final hour. It is hitting a record high after confirming charlie gasparinos report that the og Software King is indeed in talks to rescue viral video platform tiktok from President Trumps threats to ban the chineseowned favorite of dancing teen agers. Of all the chinese apps, why ban this one . Charlie breaks it in just moments. And if the president does ban tiktok, will that be a shot across the bow aimed at china . We have team fox business coverage of the brewing tensions between the two superpowers. Our tech panel is here to tell you if we are on the verge of a high tech cold war and why t
Head for britains houses of parliament. And the polls parliament approved changes to the countrys map to include areas under indian control. Of the program the coronavirus pandemic started in china and now the rush is on to contain it again the biggest wholesale food market in the Capital Beijing is closed under police guard after dozens of people tested positive for the 1st local cases detected in the city for 20000000 people for nearly 50 days and officials in the affected area say theyre now on a wartime footing as a katrina you explains from beijing. Video of Chinese Military police entering beijing from thai district has been circulating on social media and you cluster of cases discovered here on friday. Has triggered what the government is calling a wartime footing to contain the outbreak dozens of locally transmitted cases a link to shin friday wholesale market the biggest in the capital for full tide history has immediately launched the world. Has set up a few headquarters to m
But is quite rapid the last few days and it tells us more and more, volatility it is going to be here to stay. Patient capital, as it always has, will win. You have got to look at where the secular plays are going to take place in what is a Game Changing event, whether number one or number two or number three in my investment career. These are Game Changing events. Where is the secular story going to the cute the banking area . Names like ally. More online pension purchases, as i talked about with nike. You have got to think about where is the secular story going to be we will get a cyclical rebound. That is going to be beneficial for investors. Joe i know you want to keep talking micro. You mentioned we shouldnt get too excited about hopes for the second half. We dont really know if the threedate bounce, volatile as it is, is sustainable. You mentioned a couple names. Big picture, where do you see investors have the safest cushion, the biggest margin for error, or even if they are buy