Rice universities Public Policy hosted the event. It is over one hour. Welcome to the Baker Institute webinar. I am steve lewis. The head of our china studies program. We are happy to have you all this afternoon. Thank you for tuning in. I am hoping not only do you find it informative and unique colleague, but froma welcome respite domestic politics, which is never as important as aging asian affairs. I would like to thank all of you again. Our hardworking staff at the Baker Institute. My Research Assistant for helping. The foundation for endowing a lot of the events here. The doctor i have known her for 10 years one of our top scholars. I think it has been 10 years. She was a postdoc here for asian interested in media. Had her and her expertise in many of our past webinars on chinese politics. We are happy to have her again today. Also, we are happy this year because she is newly minted as an associate professor, tenured professor at media studies at the university of virginia. The on
Good wednesday morning im Caro Quintanilla with jon fortt and Julia Boorstin with us dow down 800, worst drop since about june 11th, on covid worries in the europe and United States, lockdown worries in france and germany oil is down about 6 vix getting closer to 40 were monitoring the ceos of twitter, facebook as they testify on section 230 well begin with dominic chu on more on what is driving the downswing. A lot of narrative around the rising covid cases, not just in the United States but europe as well markets may be taking their cues from whats happening in europe. Theyre talking about wider spread lockdowns in germany and france and whats if it happens here in the United States. Thats playing out in the markets right now. For the s p 500 specifically, below the 3300 mark, that is below both the 50day average price and the 100day average price for those indices, so many traders looking for technical or chart pattern levels as they look at trades today the s p 500, this little rol
Good Tuesday Morning im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt and Julia Boorstin apple is going to be the story of the hour. Their new event is just hours away expected to unveil the latest edition of the iphone, jon likely story of the week in my book. Thats where well start this morning. Joanna stern off the wall street journal joins us product reviewer extraordinary air. Its been a long time since we had an iphone event that wasnt focused primarily on camera and screen quality, i would argue. Maybe back to the iphone 10 where we got face id but this time it might be 5g taking center stage, right supposed to be it speed, speed, speed. That was the tease in the invite last week from apple i think its going to be in 5g, certainly. Processors, processors, processors every year. And i think also we hear a lot of speed in charging this morning it was a i believe it was last night, a Wireless Charging grid that will clip to the back of the new iphones magnetically clip. Should be able to charge
House. And banks ahead of a slew of earnings reports today jp morgan and citi tomorrow before the open. 59 minutes left in the session sara and we are higher across the board. The banks stocks up close to 3 for some of them 3 up for the nasdaq. Best day for the nasdaq since april. Coming up, the ceo of ho logic plus we will speak with the council on Foreign Relations richard haas about how the handling of the pandemic in the United States is being viewed by the rest of the world and how it influences geopolitics first an update on the stories we are watching. Mike mike tracking the market action, ylan moi with the latest on the stimulus negotiations and more on the coronavirus treatments mike, what is driving this rally . Good question is it possible to have a low volume buying panic . Thats a little bit what it feels like today certainly the nasdaq doing most of the work. The big cap tech stocks. Look how it aektsds affects the 17ds it looks like an acceleration higher out of the trad
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