Ecommerce the big baba breakout. We start off with the end of an era. Exxonmobil getting booted from the dow after nearly 100 years in the index exxons tenure as the longest serving dow component comes to an end on monday when salesforce takes its place. Exxons removal from the dow is nothing less than a remarkable sign of the times. Just seven yearsago it was the largest publicly traded company in the United States since then, shares have been on a steady decline exxon is down more than 40 in 2020, on pace for its worst year ever so is exxons removal from the dow a sign that big oil is dead money . Guy adami . I think so. Its something weve been saying for a while. I think they finally came to the realization that the worlds changed. Energy is not nearly as on the to the u. S. Economy as it was a decade or so ago i guess we have to make a choice between chevron and exxon. For whatever reason, im sure they obviously have their reasons, they picked exxon to remove i think exxons been in
At least 16 people have been killed. And hong kong chief executive carrie lam and 10 otherr officials s are sanctiononed bye u. S. Over a contntroversial securityty law. A familiar setting and a familiar story for World Champion lewis hamilton. He set the pace for the 70th anniversary grand prix. Anchor the u. S. State department has called a former top saudi intelligence official a valued partner. It comes a day after he filed a lawsuit in washington, accusing the Saudi Crown Prince of sending a hit squad to kill him. They say they are concerned s allegations and persecution of his family members are unacceptable. An extraditioned request because they said it was politically motivated. The state department comments were made in a letter to a democratic senator, who requested a formal update on the case. The department praises dr. Aljabris work with the embassy in riyadh, saying he is someone who responded aroundtheclock to threats to u. S. Interests in the kingdom. It adds, the depart
The model 5 new as elon musk does a huge stock split, five to one. And when does 20 equal 80 . It is your morning riddle. It has to do with bonds and yields were going to show it to you coming up in your rbi on this wednesday, august 12th and this is Worldwide Exchange right here on cnbc. Well, good morning, good afternoon, good evening and welcome from wherever in the world you are watching im Brian Sullivan the rbi is really interesting today. It maybe, just maybe shows you how price sensitive allamerican borrowers really are thats coming up well get that a bit later on in the show right now lets get to the market futures are back on the rebound. Up another 250 deja vu all over again thats where we were yesterday higher across the board. Today many technicians might say an important day because we had that huge reversal in the final hour of trading. The s p 500 which at one point was within half a percentage point of the interday alltime high closing lower Major Technology leading th
Years. And lots to come on the show. Two big ceo interviews on the back of earnings in a few minutes well speck to the owner of Outback Steakhouse blooking brands and later the ceo of boston beer will join us that stock surging after the truly hard seltzer brand helped boost sales. Looking forward to both of those interviews were down. 6 lets get to the big stories were watching meg tirell has more on the signing. And mike san totoli is joining s meg, let aers start with youen that executive order news. Hi. Drug pricing hasnt been in the conversation as much this year as the drug industry has been racing to develop vaccines and drugs for covid19 but the president reportedly planning to sign an executive order with a few different aspects on drug price this is afternoon. One could be allowing importation of drugs from canada where theyre price moored cheaply. Another could focus on tying prices to basket of prices from other wealthy countries. And a third could focus on providing free i
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 to you. Thank you we have markets on pause for the most part today. Bond market is qui wet yields at the lows stock market, too, is hugging this very familiar area, basically flat on the day. That is an area of attraction. Well see fit lasts for now. It is the defensive factors. The ones that benefit from low yields that are up today, real estate, staples and utilities. Take a look though at a couple of indicators as we wait for the fed decision tomorrow. Whats going on and how quiet the bond m