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Jackie deangelis in the newsroom and Edward Lawrence in washington. Lets kick it off with jackie on todays market rally. Jackie. Reporter good afternoon, melissa. Stocks were slightly higher on the blowout retail sales report in may, an increase of 17. 7 , the biggest monthly increase. Aprils sharp decline was revised lower this is good news as states are reopening and economy is getting up and running, there does appear to be a lot of pentup demand from folks not shopping while they were unlockdown orders but buyer beware. As you said in beijing, another lockdown after a cloughster of new cor...

Points. We thought it would be a huge bounceback day, it might be, you never know but another point as the intraday of the dow we actually went negative. Were back up 120. Up and down we go. Deirdre bolton trying to keep track of it all. Joins us from the new york stock exchange. Like im on a ham sister wheel, connell. We had 950 point gain. When Vp Mike Pence said essentially every american will be covered for coronavirus testing. You saw, that, that is where viewers can see a little bit after green, kind of blip up on the dow. Were still nowhere near where we were at the highs of the session...

Which is just outside of shenzhen. We had a sitdown interview with a key executive. I would say that there is a huge misunderstanding about the type of company that huawei is. Huawei is privatelyowned company. There is no real connection to the state in china. We are part of that thriving private business. That is probably the fundamentally the biggest misunderstanding. Connell there is no connection between huawei and the Chinese Government, no direct connection. There is no direct connection. There is no ownership. Connell take it straight to todays panel, joined by adam lashinsky, fortune e...