Of security at facebook, about the next big hurdle that the company is facing. As coronaviruses spike, loews longtime ceo Jonathan Tisch will talk to us about his belief about the governments role too revive the travel industry, but also all business in the United States power lunch is right now its agreed to see ygreat tl the s p 500 is lower by about 2 bob pisani has more on all the market moves. Hello, melissa. Were near the lows for the day. I want to emphasize what melissa was just saying, because the outperformance is truly extraordinary. What you want to focus on is the nasdaq 100 while up 16, the nasdaq 100, which consists of the top five five, up 21 this is an unusual dispersion. Were also seeing the equal weight down, the average stock on the s p is down 12 thats a good way to look at it. Meantime the russell 2000 small cap is down 16 . To show you the outperformance, remember these numbers these are the top five these five stocks are 6 trillion in market capitalization, almo
Lauren. Lauren very choppy. The dow was set up to be up five days in a row, 357 at the high. Closing in the red, s p is lower. It is on track for the best month since 1987. Nasdaq is the big loser. Technology down. Health care weighed overall. A lot of dow components reported today, four to be specific this morning. Only one of those,fieder actually reaffirmed, rare to do this, reaffirmed fullyear guidance but take a look at its shares down over 1 . Pfizer spending money on a coronavirus vaccine. It says one could be ready for testing next week for use by the fall. Also technology, investors are waiting Quarterly Results from the Big Tech Companies starting with alphabet. Any moment now they want to know how immune is big tech to coronavirus and how has ad budgets been slashed . Take a look here. Were seeing so many of the stocks been hit hard with the virus come back. Consumer confidence and a Regional Manufacturing report, completely nosedived this month. Still investors overall opti
Good rajapaksa led the military to victory over the tamil tigers ending 26 years of civil war. He was given a free hand by his brother then president Mahinda Rajapaksa to do so. But accusations of human rights abuses and walk rhymes. Many tamils in the north and east are still looking for answers about their missing relatives or those abducted under rajapakse as watch some complain of intimidation and harassment when they tried to speak up sherry in savior who has worked with these communities says his candidacy for president is causing concern hes seen terminator of dissent yes so in that context like you know people are a bit worried about i mean any kind of dissent will not be tolerated rajapaksa seems to be aware of such concerns telling the Party Convention on sunday that the diversity of communities. Is its strength its taken one term for sri lankans who voted rajapaksa president out of office to look at his brother as a potential leader the reason according to one political comm
Talking about, really i dont. Also i want to thank a couple. I could be here all night thanking people but there are a couple of people i want to mention. The most important one is kelly, kelly bird. Thank you for organizing all of this, bringing me here, getting us through the whole process of organizing the symposium itself as well as having me speak. And where is paul and nancy . Paul is over there. Paul, thank you for taking me to the best steak place in kansas city. Okay. Thank you. Now paul has been very helpful in other ways as well. Now diane has mentioned that my passion and ill admit this, i will admit to this, my passion is blackpast. Org. Now a 15,000 page website. Essentially a work thats based on volunteers. You can see some of it being skrold. Im not touching on it. You can see the scrolling. It started as kind of a project for our students at the university of washington and we forgot to gate it and as a consequence somebody wrote from new zealand and said, you know, sh
Just one spoon of rice to feed them times are difficult for everyone nobody has much food to give away those who take care of their relatives with disabilities are suffering and cannot give much. His hooves is also helping out at least 8 others in this island of around 10000. 00 people many have already migrated somewhere else because of food and medicine shortages were told the water sanitation plant is broken and there is no gas or electricity. We went to the house of my kelly just seen a mother of 5 she has no money to buy her children clothes or diapers even though her husband works as a fisherman she says they barely have enough to eat people here are desperate they dont have Running Water they dont have gas and this is the only food they have for the whole family the situation is so dire that they were forced to sell this window in order to be able to buy medicine for the children. Michael lee says all government help has been gone for months the venezuelan government says boxes