Save the lives of one of your childrens teachers, maybe it saves your life. Please, i implore you, wear a mask. Do it for yourself. Do it for your neighbor. A mask is not a political statement. It is a good way to start pulling the country together. I want to be very clear. The goal of mask wearing is not to make your life less comfortable. It is to take or take something away from you. It is to give Something Back to all of us. A normal life. The goal is to get back to normal as fast as possible. Masks are critical in doing that. It will not be forever. That is how we will get our nation back, back up to speed economically. We can go back to celebrating birthdays and holidays, so we can attend sporting events, so we can back to the live and connections we shared before the pandemic. It does not matter who you voted for. We are americans in our country is under threat. We are now called to do the same thing generations of proud americans have done when faced with crisis throughout our
Take a look at gain better than 2 . Nasdaq futures up 130 and s p futures up 32 points. Dow, nasdaq and s p 500 marking marking second consecutive week of losses on friday, big bounceback from that, on friday you had as you see markets lower, new fox poll new fox news poll show the 2020 race is narrowing, President Trump and joe biden taking their messages to swing states but just over now 50 days to go until election day. Plus, how you can live like the fresh prince of bell air courtesy of will smith and airbnb, mornings with maria is live right now. Maria firmer tone to markets this morning. European indices are mixed with european markets kicking off the gains with fractional moves here. Cac quarante is up 6 but the dax index in germany lower by 8 points, virtual trade talks between eu and china, we will tell you more about that coming up. The big Softbank Nvidia deal. As you see korean kospi index up one and a third percent and shanghai composite about twothirds 1 . Ruling party af
Stalling, the origins of the coronavirus outbreak, this as the white house is still blaming beijing. Elon musk scoring a win in his battle with california really Alameda County getting green light to open alameda factory after orders to stay close. Futures are searching for direction. This after markets gave up early gains over concerns about a possible spike in coronavirus cases, that leading to a selloff yesterday. Uber looking to take over grubhub in possible all stock deal as food demand surges during lockdowns. More controversy in the Michael Flynn case, a federal judge delaying a decision on the Justice Departments move to drop the case against the former National Security adviser. One programming note, tomorrow, do not miss marias sitdown with President Donald Trump. Latest on getting america back to work, more stimulus, china, the 2020 race and a whole lot more, you dont want to miss any moment of it right here starting at 6 00 a. M. Eastern. Meantime mornings with maria is liv
Maria we want to get a check on Global Markets this morning. A lot of action, rally in europe as well as the u. S. Right now. Take a look at european indices, cac quarante up 72 and dax up 147 points. Euro zone purchasing managing index better than expected. The spread of the coronavirus is expected to cause weakness going forward. Remember, the outlook thats materially changing right now. We continue to see the numbers today pretty strong. In asian overnight markets are mostly higher. Take a look, the weak spot was hong kong. The others fractionally moving although korea was up 2 and a quarter percent. We do have more bad Economic News out of china. The service purchasing manager index slide to go record low overnight. February car sales plummeting 80 year over year. South korea announcing stimulus package to fight coronavirus. People are saying if he has to cut 50 basis points before meeting, what does he know that we dont know. Maybe its a lot worse that we thought, as a result the
Obviously a busy morning full of trade and tech news, jon. Indeed. I can take no blame or responsibility for those headlines, but many of them clever all about google thats where were going to start at both larry page and sergey brin step down from their operating roles at the companys parent action alphabet, needing both chief executive roles to be filled kara swisher joins us now on the phone. Kara, i was just talking about this last hour in a way this just smells fishy to me if youre a shareholder looking at the precedent this sets these guys are young, 46 i dont know that weve had any precedent for a tech company, a giant of this size, a controlled company, where the founders say, hey, we still want absolute say over what happens, we just dont want an operating role or to be chairman of the company. Have we seen this before, kara well, in little places. The founder of ebay left the company and put it in the hands of meg whitman and it was a Significant Company at the time and he we