Welcome to Yahoo Finance flagship show, The Morning Brief. I'm Julie Heyman. Let's get the three things you need to know today.President Trump following through on his threats to slap tariffs on heavy trucks, furniture, and pharmaceuticals. For homegoods, two different tariff rates will go into effect next week. A 50% rate on items like kitchen cabinets, and a lower 30% rate on upholstered furniture.The news weighing on furniture companies this morning. But there's a big loophole for the drug makers. As lon ...

The technology that these social networking platforms provide gives us a much more sophisticated way of seeing our people not as demographics, age, race, gender, household income, but instead by cultural actors who believe what you believe and do the things that you are surrounded in based on your belief system. [Music] What's up world. Welcome to Financial Freestyle here on Yahoo Finance and I'm your host Ross Mack.Look guys, no matter where you are in your financial journey, you can never stop learning. E ...

Imagine paying $100,000 on top of an annual salary just to hire one worker because that is the new fee Trump has added to the H-1B visas. This came in an executive order on September 19th. This will ensure that the people they're bringing in are actually very highly skilled and that they're not replaceable by American workers.Before Trump added his new $100,000 fee, H-1B visas were anywhere from 1,700 to $5,000. That's an almost 2,000% increase. H-1B visas help American companies hire highly skilled foreign ...

We go now live to the White House where President Trump has signed an executive order, clearing the way for a deal to sell Tik Tok's US assets to some US investors. >> Decisions based on what's good for their business as opposed to what's good for another government's propaganda arm. So that's what we've done with this deal.I think it's very good for the American people. And as the president said, young people love this. We actually want everybody to access this whether they're they're MAGA or not.We just w ...

Tik Tok. The company will be valued around $14 billion. This is going to be American operated all the way.No, Michael Dell's involved and Rupert Murdoch's involved, including Larry Ellison and Oracle, I guess, is going to be a very play a very big role in terms of security, safety, and everything else. It's a blue chip group of investors and uh we'll be announcing more about who exactly is involved in the deal in the in the days to. ...

[Music] That's the closing bell on Wall Street and now it's market domination overtime. We're giving you full team coverage of all the moves to get you up to speed on the action from today's trade. Yahoo.Finances Jared Blickery joining us now to break down the market action. Jared, >> thank you Josh. three down days in a row.And also, I would add that this is the worst week on track for the worst week since the beginning of August. That would be August 1st. Kind of a nasty day there in and of itself.But let ...

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I I want to ask about Oracle in particular because Oracle seems like it's on top of the world right now, right. It's been, you know, it looks like it's going to get part of this US slice of Tik Tok. Um it's been signing these new deals.There's the whole Stargate situation. Um but it sounds like you have some reservations about all of that. >> Yeah.So again, let's separate what's uh what's real valuable and and what's uh a little bit of a speculation. Uh Oracle getting the Tik Tok business is a windfall. uh ...