Lot going on as stuart did tell you that whole hearing where the tech giants will gather virtually at least. It is parked back maybe half an hour. I was doing back of the napkin guesstimating on their wealth. That is on, i think is worth about 180 billion. Our Charlie Brady follows this thing would know to the penny. I think it is roughly about that. Mark zuckerberg facebook, close to 90 billion, close to 2 billion, tim cook of apple, thanks to appreciation of that stock, he is at around 2 billion. So lets say you were to add all of this. These are numbers. I added it all up. That is 272 billion collectively. These are among the richest men on the planet, particularly when it comes to bezos and zuckerberg. But putting companies combined market cap at north of 5 trillion. If you were to add microsoft to that bunch, microsoft will not be part of this hearing. They represent the five most valuable companies in the world. Isnt that amazing . Youre welcome america. We have this delay. We ha
They are getting under way. Protesters in new york citys union square are holding a kneeling moment at this hour. While we see a standoff at city hall in philadelphia, to the right of that, then we have the aerial shot of protesters who are marching in gaithersburg, maryland. All of this follows a tense weekend filled with violent protests, riots and looting of businesses both big and small, in cities and towns across the nation. This is not simply limited to big urban areas. Weve got team fox business coverage here ready to show you some of the damage on the ground live. And Corporate Americas reaction as companies from apple to microsoft to nike to netflix and others comment and make moves on the state of race in america. Plus, a major voice on wall street and a leader in the africanamerican business communi community, Tracy Maitlands family has a historic tie to Martin Luther king jr. The president of Advent Capital Management who drew the company to 9 billion, is here to tell us wh
Good morning, everybody welcome to squawk box on cnbc. Im becky quick here with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. A gain of just over 1 the dow now at 25,000. Now the dow is indicated up 162 points the nasdaq closed at its highest day. Now about 2 from its alltime high thats the run youve seen since the lows back in march treasury yields. Theyve ticked a little higher the 10year looks like it is yielding 0. 75 crude oil prices yesterday, crude was up about 4 percent on this expectation that opec plus especially russia will extend those cuts put in place that was good for 4 as seen yesterday. Crude up by 1 to 37. 16 all of this against a tricky back drop. It is powering higher well talk to a lot of folks that will help us through this the need for Solutions Former white house and ceo of j j and they have big news on all of this. Getting an update of what has gone on. Reporting a day of mostly calm in washington, Late Afternoon in st. Paul, staging the protesters protesters ran past the
U. S. Be going solo in its approach in dealing with china in terms of the economic and military superpower or work with allies in developing a grand new strategy . Joining me now to talk about that and more is the founder of the atlas foundation, jonathan ward, author of chinas vision of victory, and we are happy to have him this weekend. Jonathan, thank you so much for being with us. First off, give us your assessments of the china u. S. Relationship. We know that President Trump has certainly changed the conversation around china after all of the tariffs and the, and the look into chinas behavior on intellectual property theft. But this covid19 crisis took it even further. Tell us where we stand. Hi, maria. Its great to be back. First of all, this to covid chi sis this is to be a wakeup call for the United States. This has to be our sputnik moment when we come together as a nation, realize that we have a giant challenge on our hands and get ready for competition with a hostile superp
U. S. Be going solo in its approach in dealing with china in terms of the economic and military superpower or work with allies in developing a grand new strategy . Joining me now to talk about that and more is the founder of the atlas foundation, jonathan ward, author of chinas vision of victory, and we are happy to have him this weekend. Jonathan, thank you so much for being with us. First off, give us your assessments of the china u. S. Relationship. We know that President Trump has certainly changed the conversation around china after all of the tariffs and the, and the look into chinas behavior on intellectual property theft. But this covid19 crisis took it even further. Tell us where we stand. Hi, maria. Its great to be back. First of all, this to covid chi sis this is to be a wakeup call for the United States. This has to be our sputnik moment when we come together as a nation, realize that we have a giant challenge on our hands and get ready for competition with a hostile superp