That are being organized on facebook and read it buying the stock, bidding it up, causing those institutions to lose money here. Talking to the tune of billions of dollars over the past week or so for the sec, Securities Exchange commission is watching this and a sec regulator told me you might be hard for them to find a violation. Listen. I think when it comes to regulating the speech or regulating content, thats a huge challenge and certainly from a securities regulation perspective. I dont think the sec can regulate speech which everyone has the right to regulate in the sense charging a crime for doing it. What has lawmakers concerned is that robin hood is billed as a free Trading Platform had actually stopped or halted trades on gamestop and some of these others that were shorted which allowed the institutions to make back some of their money in those shorts yesterday. If robin hood said it needed the pause to collect collateral for its clearing house. They raised A Billion Dollars
The s p 500 really getting back to the record highs. What i really want to focus on nowne day, two days, and wednesday, we are giving up the yield surge of the past week, a profoundly for global wall street it profound week for global wall street. Francine i will never forget valentines day of 2020, i think it is the last time i traveled. [laughter] kind of like a milestone i remember. It feels it yields away. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news in new york city with karina mitchell. Corrina m a cuts have made it official and nominated joe biden covering up karina democrats have made it official and nominated joe biden for president. Meanwhile, the Trump Administration sees a path to a pared down 500 billion stimulus deal. Bloomberg learned the package will eliminate the biggest area of disagreement between democrats and republicans, would include money for the postal service, and money for businesses to keep workers employed. Pelosi suggested democrats might agree to a
The latest edition and fans from the 70s will be happy. And a big day for the banks and what we have called the most important stock on the market today. This is Worldwide Exchange on cnbc good morning, good afternoon, goodevening. Im Brian Sullivan thank you for starting or ending your tuesday with us the Global Markets are setting up their day, futures are higher not a lot but they are up. Any green is a good sign for investors. Especially the speed and severity of the move down the markets around 2 00 p. M. Yesterday. Around 500 points were erased. The tech led the flip flop nasdaq ending lower after crossing up for the first time amazon, facebook, adobe, nvidia, et cetera. Most are higher right now premarkets. That reversal likely caused by news by california late in the day that it will roll back part of reopening imposing restrictions on restaurants, movie theaters and bars and students in los angeles and San Diego County School Districts are unlikely to return to physical classr
Five day winning streak. Dom chu has more. And it has been the outperformer the nasdaq again up about onethird of 1 , so well off the lows of the session so far all those lows by the way, the dow industrials down roughly 271 points and weve gained back a lot of ground, but a lot of waiting and seeing with the s p just about flat. Lets take a look at some of the sector movements since the covid lows that we saw back in march over the last three months, the real standouts have been energy, up about 68 , consumer discretionary, retail names up 47 . And Technology Names up about 37 . Are more sensitive names playing on a recovery or hopes of one driving those particular gains so something to watch. And then the stock of the day is spotify hitting a record high up 13 off the highs of the day after it inked an exclusive deal with Kim Kardashian west to host a new exclusive podcast centering around kriccriminal Justice Reform and remember a lot of headlines, dwrenkt listin direct listing, not
Reopening. What is it like to go out to dinner well let you know. A buffett solomon breakup. Well focus on another berkshire breakup making waves ahead of the open. Tsa temperature checks and massive lines out of the industryway . Some of the ideas being floated with more than a dozen out there to get the American Economy and airports going again it is monday, may 18th and youre watching Worldwide Exchange right here on cnbc good monday morning, good afternoon or good evening and welcome from wherever in the world you may be watching us thank you for starting off your monday on cnbc im Brian Sullivan we have a fair amount of green on the screen and a little optimism to start your week. We can all use some of that. Certainly we can and the markets are reflecting it. Many countries are starting to reopen and there are some positive virus trends. Fewer cases and, more importantly, a slowdown in fatalities, at least around the world. Dow futures are up about 300 points right now perhaps th