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Targeted aid maybe, perhaps as much as 25 million for airlines we have details on that. Later, a democraticled house panel calling for a crackdown and breakup of the countrys biggest tech companies. The chair of the antitrust subcommittee will join us later this hour as power lunch starts right now tyler, thanks welcome to power lunch. Im kelly evans. Were digging through the fed minutes just released. In the meantime, take a look at whats leading the rally its consumer and consumer discretionaries. The house panel is going after big tech its a mixed bag but apple and amazon both up more than 2 . With markets rocketing back after the late day drop we saw yesterday, stimulus back on the table. Bob pisani has more on what were seeing here. In fact, were at the highs for the day. Were on light volume again. The volume tends to be lighter on up days than down days recently thats a sign the pain trade is to the downside. Sectors tends to be the cyclical names here banks, industrials, materi
System is as secure as its ever before. The Registration System as secure as its ever before. Four years ago the obama administration, a little later than this, said there is a big problem and were going to declare the election structure a structure of National Significance and were going 0 it play a different role than we ever played before. No anticipation this was going to happen. Not much discussion. Election officials all over the country immediately said, oh, no youre not. Youre not going to just decide in october of Election Year that youre going to take over the election system and declare it a national a system of National Significance, a system of critical significance to the future of the nation. Of course it is. But it didnt become that in october of 2016. But the message was clear that we needed to build those stronger ties with local and state election authorities. We needed to do everything we could as we saw the efforts by some foreign actors and some people in their ba
Sorry to cut it a bit short today, a lot of news today thank you. Meanwhile, welcome everybody, this is squawk alley, were continuing to hunt for indications and clues. Meadows, kudlow, mnuchin all saying mild symptoms, and leader mcconnell says just ahead a great phone call with potus. We talked business and that really has taken over whatevertrack we might have ordinarily spent on the jobs number we wish the president and the first lady well. We wish everyone well who has had a diagnosis of the virus and there are all kinds of questions now about the state of president trumps agenda clearly the Senate Majority leader trying to emphasize that part of things remains on track as far as the Supreme Court nomination and more, carl, but yeah, well just have to see as well how the markets continue to react to this. Amon jabbers, take stock of the information were getting from all areas of washington dc and all branchs of government. Yeah, a massive Contact Tracing around here as officials s
In the depths. Or inmate in the shallowness. Welcome back there are few industries in the world harder hit by the coronavirus than the travel and Tourism Sector without question 2020 will go down as one of the worst years ever for the industry but in reality were only in august and still have a long way to go already the effects are being felt in fact the Hotel Industry is warning that as a whole they are facing an absolute Economic Disaster and a desperate plea to congress submitted this week the industry claims that nearly 25 percent of all hotels in the United States are at risk of foreclosure simply put those hotels have loans that are at least 30 days delinquent or longer at the end of 29000. 00 the same number was 1. 9 percent of hotels and this is just the beginning so joining us now to discuss is boom bust cohost investigative journalist bence want and travel expert from money we have dot com very choice thank you both for joining us today ben i want to start with you can you g