Economist fears to put it all in perspective, chief Economic Advisor mohammed will be joining us. The worlds searching for a cure for the deadly coronavirus, one Company Thinks its device could help save lives, the chief medical officer and cofounder will tell us how it all works. In schools across the nation get set to reopen, one company is ready to make learning from home easier for teachers, parents and students, is sounds good, sullivan learning is here with the fox business exclusive, were less than hour to the closing bell, im abstention Ashley Webster in for liz claman, lets start the claman countdown. Ashley breaking news, right off the top of the show, mgm resorts is said to reopen the mirage casino resort on august 27, and headed crucially of the long Labor Day Holiday weekend, the 3000 room resort along with many other casinos in sin city has been shut since march due to the coronavirus, a sign of progress, right there. Mgm reopening the mirage august 27, as for the markets
Jim isto ms. Joint joining us now. This is the question of the moment. Is the momentum lost or is the economy going backwards . Jim you can almost go statebystate and tell me what the case counted as and i can tell you how much economic momentum they have lost. The biggest Economic Indicator is rising covid cases. Once that peaks nationally and thets down, we can see acceleration again. But all of these rising case numbers are spooking the consumer. And the consumer is taking this on their own, they are not waiting for their governor to shut down or rollback. When they see their area increasing they react. Inathan you see this highfrequency data and i wonder what it will look like, this is really difficult for some any people on wall street. Continuing claims looks better, initial jobless claims speaks to the stalling. How on earth do you come up with an estimate for payrolls in a couple of weeks . Going to be hard. This was designed with the idea that we are creating jobs. We have the
Nasdaqs going to be up about 60 at the opening bell. From the low of march 23rd to the close yesterday, the value of all publicly traded companies has gone up 12. 2 trillion. You have never seen anything like that before. Next, tesla. Musk does it again. Grabs the headlines with a five for one stock split. That may bring in more Retail Investors. Doesnt change teslas business, but the stock is up bigtime premarket. A gain of 84 bucks per share. Apple announced a four for one stock split a week ago and apple this morning is leading the big tech rebound. Its up four bucks. Then theres this. The big ten, now the pac12 have canceled their football seasons. Looks grim for the college game. This is a financial story. Colleges will lose billions. That virus changed everything, didnt it . Larry kudlow joins us again later. What does he think of a 12 trillion increase in the value of American Business in less than five months . Hes got something to say about it. Hes on the show. Wednesday, augu
July jobs number will be released. Ahead of that, what sort of trends are you seeing as states begin to report have reported a rise in cases and weve seen closures of the economy in some states across the country . Right. Let me start by saying good morning, bill, to you and your viewers. Well, the trend lines have not been good. There are two indicators for whats happening with employment. The Census Bureau is putting out preliminary data that indicate that the percentage of americans who are employed is declining again. And the Labor Department puts out data about initial weekly unemployment claims. Basically people filing for their Unemployment Benefits for the first time. And those numbers have been pretty stagnant since the beginning of june, and recently have gone to tick up a little bit which is application that there are more people losing their jobs in the economy. So those two indicators suggest that while we may see some jobs growth when we get the unemployment and jobs numb
There was an endeavor to get to the city yesterday but we were landlocked yesterday, drove into the city under the trees. It was a little scarey we are back and it is nice to be here it feels like home good to have you back, andrew this is the situation that we probably havent given focus it deserves still millions without power 1. 4 million in new jersey without power. I know connecticut was hit worse. That storm even though a tropical storm, not a hurricane, stronger than anticipated. The wind event and damage significant. I appreciate it still trying to dig out from that today a lot of people that will be without power for days starting with the markets this morning. The nasdaq on another record six straight games it closed just below 11,000. Just north of 10,998 youll see this morning, us equity futures are not pushing above the 11,000 mark just yet six days in a row weve seen gains. This morning, indicated down by 20 points. The fourth day of gains for both the s p 500 and the dow