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Unemployment and he did not talk about a payroll tax cut. We know many top gop senators are not big fans but lindsey graham, a republican close to the president said he had dinner with the president last night where they discussed the tax cut and that he will be fully supporting it. He did not make those top line priorities that mcconnell laid out this morning is it fair at this early stage to argue that for mcconnell the red line is liabilities protections . That is right, i should have mention...

Only on in this crisis i took what some would say heavy handed approach i actually did use our National Guard to monitor cars coming in from other states and including new york to ask them to go into quarantine if they were coming from a place like new york city that was a hot spot and i did take a little flak at that time for that approach but the truth of it is. Like ive said rhode island the only state in america where weve tested 20 percent of the population hospitalizations are going down b...

Youre watching Worldwide Exchange on cnbc top of the morning to you in for Brian Sullivan today kicking off this monday morning with stock futures indicating declines. The nasdaq up about 48 points as you can see but the nasdaq composite overall over the last two days has seen some of that positivity posting a 1. 5 gain with the help of blowout quarterly numbers from amazon. Com, facebook as well the latter coming off of a gain of 10 peculiar on friday for the best one day performance since marc...

And individual names getting lower. That keeps it pretty much unchanged year to date we have a massive show coming up discuss the latest stimulus negotiations th thats any minute now its the key question for the markets today. And then as the heat gets turned up on big tech, well talk to the always candid ceo about the precious ceos facing testimony tomorrow and the stay at home trend a huge swell of tech earnings coming to day and later this week. Lets start with the broader markets. Mike, over...

Netflix, as the richest is the streaming world, still expected to get richer than many of its competitors, academy i think we have to put this Earnings Report into context at the same time, john, i wonder if net flix is a pretender of what is to come it has been one of the great work from home, stay at home plays, and we have earnings coming up. Really this week you have seen some names take a breather zoom is down more than 10 this week these have been some of the really outstanding performer t...

Come back to haunt us where lets ask john siddha levys of washington based Trilogy Advisors he is a consultant to the u. S. State Department John long time no see and if you had to pick one what would you call the number one story elsewhere in the world that is being under reported here at home. Well thats being underreported i would say one of the most important developments the last few days hollande is the chair of the massive china iran oil for infrastructure deal its a 25 year deal worth ab...

A place like new york city that was a hot spot and i did take a little flak at that time for that approach but the truth of it is. Like ive said rhode island the only state in america where weve tested 20 percent of the population hospitalizations are going down business has been open for months and i have to do everything that i need to in order to keep commerce flowing in my state without hospitalizations going through the roof. And our station has rolled out the innovative crush kovi a Smartp...

State Department John long time no see and if you had to pick one. What would you call the number one story elsewhere in the world that is being under reported here at home. Well thats being underreported i would say one of the most important developments the last few days holland is the a massive china iran oil for infrastructure deal its a 25 year deal worth about 400000000000 dollars and it provides a vital lifeline to iran and in many ways is beijings way of calling the trumpet ministrations...

Doesnt hurt that they beat on the top and bottom lines, earnings per share at 86 cents versus 71, but the real big deal here was the settlement with hauwai is this the end of qualcomms Business Model they faced problems with apple refusing to pay them telling them that their suppliers refused to pay qualcomm. I will, some people say i hate to say i told you so no one hates to say that i did tell you so, qualcomm is really good at this legal stuff. They have been fighting the legal battles throug...

We dont we use this to refresh and get some new investing ideas. We have bill nye joining us in a bit. Hell tell us why he sold out of apple and what he is buying with the money has made and hes made a lot of money on apple and a few other stocks your Investment Committee today is jim executive equity strategist. You have stephen wiess the dow trying to build on its four day win streak. Were down 122 points but you know math, as the numbers go up, the percentages go down. The nasdaq is something...