A paltry one trillion dollars,. Only in this day and age can one trillion seem cheap. Democrats want 3 trillion. Well follow battle back and forth. In texas where were seeing a spike in cases but some are finding positive signs that the spikes are not quite as high as they use to do so be. Also that, and the vaccine push right now that has some promising implications for texas. To silicon valley, what is going on there. A lot of tech ceos on wednesday will be on capitol hill. Lets just say the environment might match the weather, hot and getting even more heated. So lets get to it with chad pergram with republicans with their own coronavirus bill, that also tackles that sticky subject of those jobless benefits. Courtesy of uncle sam. Chad, where do we stand on all of this. Reporter neil, they released their plan yesterday, about five or six distinct proposals. Frankly republicans are in a pickle. There is a lot of disagreement, there is a lot of disowe nance on the republican side of t
1. 2 million. Thats the lowest since the pandemic began we will tell you which sectors of the economy are hiring the fastest. The answer might surprise you. This company is powering up Artificial Intelligence for Big Companies amid the coronavirus pandemic and the stock is soaring. The ceo of live person i dont know if you can get a live person on live person but thats the idea. That person will join us later this hour. Power lunch starts right now kelly. Im here live live person a big company to watch. Look at this 11,0 11,062 we could have that over 11,000 close like you pointed out for first time in history. Remember that massive run higher in the nasdaq keeps going. At what point will it stop well have to see. Theres a little skepticism building out another place thats driving the action in the nasdaq is the Biggest Company of them all out there. That is apple. The number were looking for is 467. 77. Thats the number at which apples market cap reaches a total of around 2 trillion.
S p 500 essentially flat year to date nasdaq up some 19 59 minutes left in the session, sara coming up on this friday afternoon, weve got a series of great gifts for you. Red finns stock was on fire the stock selling to have day on the companys cautious outlook as the ceo says the bottom codrp out on the economy were going to talk to glenn kelman in a few minutes. And then apple once again, the Biggest Public Company in the world, surpassing saudi ramco. Continuing the historic run. The market cap now sitting above 1. 8 trillion. Its up over 8. 25 well talk about what an investor should do with this stock next lets focus in on the big stories that were watching. Mike santoli looking at the market and the tech stocks surging to day kayla is looking over the next stimulus package first to you, mike. The story from the morning was that Great Results from the big four of tech did not really lift all votes did you have weakness. Sold a strong open the market firmed up in the last hour or so
The women owners are defying owners. Chicago, teachers and parents once again at odds of reopening plans that even parents say are major league screwed up. California, wildfires that are raging out of control right now with no end in sight. Talk about impeccable timing . Were on top of all of that. Were focusing on developments in washington where the president is meeting with a number of tech leaders and workers. Blake burman at the white house with more. Hey, blake. Reporter hi, there, neil, and President Trump is set to be signing an executive order in washington momentarily. Im told what this will involve to try to insure when federal contracts are given out, they are given out to u. S. Citizens and not potentially h1b visa holders. Trying to insure the contracts are given to american citizens. We should be hearing from the president shortly. We will wait to see, neil if the president will be taking any questions and if he does i have to imagine he would be asked about this tweet h
Are suing democratov to reopen e schools. But first, a stimulus deal between republicans and the white house is in the works. Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell is said to strategize in about half an hour with his caucus. He is expected to unveil the plan later today. Were getting details what might be in it and when might not be in it. Fox news Congressional Correspondent chad pergram on capitol hill with the latest and apparently a payroll tax cut deduction may not be in this, right . Reporter thats right. Well talk about that here in just a second. Ev this tenne particular set of spending, the easy part, the appropriations part. So Mitch Mcconnell, the Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell will run through those details with his conference here in the next half hour or so. This is so fragile right now, we dont have a lot of meat on the bone. That is why Mitch Mcconnell has been hasnt said anything at this morning. I will run through what we do know here. There are a couple of details