Disney earnings smashing expectations. With disneyland closedend movie theaters dark, can streaming make up for more bosses ahead . Peloton has been the pandemic diving with a new campaign in a partnership with beyonce. And waitvaccine news times. We will talk about it all later this hour. Amid spiking cases today. The s p 500 sank as new york y prepares for the possibility of closing at schools while chicago issued an advisory, urging residents to avoid leaving home except for work and other essential activities. Abigail doolittle has been following it all. How . Does this impact the markets . Abigail it was a bearish day at the end of the day as investors some of the news around the virus. It is clear it is surging in the u. S. Before we talk markets, a lot of movement after hours. Some of those movers you were talking about. Disney is surging. A blowout quarter. Like so much, it is a story of the haves and the havenots. Media was up 11 . Theou were indicating, studio is down 52 and parks down 61 . Overall investors like it. Not just the fact the loss was not as bad as expected and espn revenue jumped, as you know, they have 74 million streaming subscribers. I dont know for sure, i believe on a comparative basis, this is more than netflix had at that stage. A verye clearly formidable competitor. Disney is all in on streaming. That is the bright spot. The stock is off of its lows, palantir. Mixed. Up a the disappointment has to do with the revenue outlook for the quarter. 52 sales growth. Investors not liking that. And then cisco has a good quarter. They have been struggling the last year. This is a clean quarter. They beat the outlook. The stock rewarded the most of the earnings movers of the seven. 5 . That Networking Company trying to transition toward software. You. all right, thank we will talk more about disney and the other earnings coming up this hour. I want to get your sense of the broader market. Around theertainty election. President trump refusing to concede. How are investors reacting to the broader climate . Yesterday there was not much of a reaction. I would say the uncertainty investors are reacting to is the virus. On somer sign chicago degree of shutdown coming. More restrictions in new york. Saw someors see, we decent declines into the close. The nasdaq 100 outperformed. Down about half a percent. Not even the tech stocks that could do well if we go back to a stayathome climate did all that well. That tells you there is some fear out there. Overall the tech index, which again, investors were confident and were going to go to her defense, the tech index, like so all about indexes, the uncertainty. This may be a case where there nowhere to hide. Panicked,it is not more resignation to the fact, here we go again. Today really weighing on the markets. The s p having its worst day of the month. Probably more of this to come. Emily all right. Lots to watch. Abigail doolittle, thank you for that round up. I want to get back to disney. Disney surging after reporting its results. As the class has more than 73 million subscribers. For more i want to bring in the industry analyst. Disney doing better than projected. Still not great. Disneyland closed. Movie theaters still closed. New shows. To shoot what are your takeaways . That is right. The way i would frame the quarter, expectations were really low. Badcompany came in less would be the way to describe it. We know coming into the quarter covid19 overhang was going to restrain the theme parks and also the advertising and the theatrical businesses. What we saw is really the company doing a really good job navigating these challenges. While some of the covid19 concerns will continue and remain through the current quarter, disney remains one of the main beneficiaries of the Covid Vaccine development. I would look at it as a strong reopening play and that is why you see shares reacting the way they are. Is the brightest spot of all of the takeaways right now. Emily we are listening to the earnings calls, you can follow along on the bloomberg blog. Current news about the quarter. Disneyland will remain closed as far as they know. Hes extremely disappointed by this. Movie studio results will be below what they have been. Espn costs will be up because of the timing of sporting events and streaming is going to lose more money than it did a year ago because of all of the investment in disney plus. How does this add up for you . The that ties back to point about the near term visibility. If you look at the headline, i would look at the direct to consumer. Building global subscribers between disney plus, espn plus, and hulu. The number was actually way higher than we expected. Over 73 million they reported. And now that they are closing in on the one year of that launched,when they certain verizon customers. The key will be to see how the new content they produce, the lorian, which launched a couple of weeks ago, and all the content will drive acceleration with the International Launch getting much more traction then we would have expected. Espnon the sports side, getting some of its mojo back. Again it is going to be some heavy lifting to be done in the nerd term near term the covid issues pose some nearterm constraints. Close toravel is not prepandemic levels. All of that we are keeping an eye on. The theaters have been there as well. This plays into the overall outlook. We still have some speed bumps to navigate. Went we know mulan straight to streaming. Disney says it is pleased and will announce more movies next month. Worldaid, while disney at 35 ofting capacity. Disneyland in california is close. Disney world in florida is open at 35 capacity when it is normally full. Do you think the parks business will ever recover in a new world . Tuna its going to take a long backfor the parks to get to normalcy. Is the were encouraged idea they are getting positive net contribution in the parks even in a limited capacity. They are able to generate revenue sufficiently to recoup some of their cost. To the extent they can do that, that will help them absorb some of the costs inherent in the business. I think it is going to take probably a couple of years at least to get back to anywhere close to the peak attendance levels we have seen the last few years. A lot of it depends on the speed of the vaccine development. Takeaway, forg arecurrent quarter, parks booked at 77 booking levels. Especially for thanksgiving weekend. Thats an indication of the potential pentup demand to go back to the parks. Even then, caution is warranted. That still leaves a lot of capacity to be made up from the covid disruption. Emily i know there are some kids that are going to be missing disneyland around the holidays. Always such a great time of year. Tuna, think you for joining us. Coming up, President Trump announcing he is banding investment in firms white house says are controlled by chinese military. What can we expect from the president after he leaves the white house . More on his postpresidency next. This is bloomberg. President trump has announced a new order on Chinese Investment today. The president is banding investment in firms white house says are controlled by chinas military and the administrations latest move to continue to put pressure on the country. With us now for more is josh in washington. Interesting in the context the president has what does this mean . A bunch ofll see stuff like this in the final days. These are the types of borders that can be undone. There is a runway on this thing that will kick in in january. Firms have a year or so to comply. Not immediate. The question will become, january 20, when joe biden is an curated, what will he do . We have not heard from this on this one. We expect trump to roll out these executive orders, unilateral action. The question on this one and the ones in the weeks to come will be, will joe biden keep those . It is unclear right now. Being tough on china is a bipartisan winner at the moment. It even was so before the pandemic, pinning blame on china. It is not clear yet what joe biden will do. There might be political incentive to keep them in place. President s do the attempts to fight legal battles claiming voter fraud actually stand . Handems like other than a recount in georgia, they are going nowhere. Josh i think that is fair. They are pledging new steps, saying there is more evidence around the corner. We have not seen it. They put out affidavits from detroit. They do not speak to widespread fraud at all. Nothing that would swing michigan. Biden has a big lead there. Hard to imagine him flipping michigan. Theres more extreme scenarios, but right now, trump is intent on giving the appearance of a fight. That will include a recount in georgia and may include a recount in wisconsin. They would have to cough up a fair bit of money to do that. See how the legal cases, pennsylvania and michigan, proceed. He at least wants to look like he is fighting. You see republicans come out of the woodwork a little bit and push back, saying joe biden should be receiving an intelligence briefing. Even the secretary of state of georgia, a republican, has said he believes joe biden will still prevail. There is increasing talk about what President Trump will do assuming he does hand over the keys. Talk about speculation he could found a new media empire that would be incredibly popular among his fans. Guy, bornp is a tv and bred. He would like to found something to undercut fox. Important to bear in mind trump is mad at fox right now. He was tweeting angry thing at fox this morning. This is probably driven by the fact fox was the first to call arizona. Some of the first real good news joe biden got on election night. That is in the president s mind. Arizona is in joe bidens column. Fox was right. In terms of specific claims, it is not clear. , somehow question participate in the media sphere once out of office, donald trump could seek the presidency again. He ran in 2024, he would have support in the party. Very popular among republican voters. It would be easy to see him on an inside track for that nomination. Donald trump has not said anything specific himself. We have to wait and see. I dont think we will see him disappear. Find a cameraill one way or another. Emily you are telling us its going to be a roller coaster. Ok. Josh, our white house reporter, thank you for giving us that update. Ok. President trump losing the election. Was it part of his plan . Where does that leave one of americas most disruptive conspiracy theories . We will speak to an expert about the qanon movement. This is bloomberg. Emily qanon, the online movement, has entered turbulent waters. The chosen candidate has lost and social media platforms have cracked down on their stomping grounds. All of this is testing the will of qanons followers, which stretched beyond u. S. Borders. Joining us to discuss whether the movement will disintegrate or pick up momentum is researcher and author mike. Thank you for joining us. What is the state of qanon now . What have they been doing . Have been preparing their champagne for their victory celebration. To them, trump won in a landslide and we just dont know it yet. All of the prophecies you made, wheat has led up to this. Trump secretly winning the election. Publicly having to pretend he lost in order to snuff out corruption behind the deep state. Emily with facebook cracking down, finally, twitter cracking down, where are they going . In my experience, it is very hard to snuff out these kinds of movements. They have to resurface. Mike they do. They have never quite left. I cant speak to facebook, but on twitter, there are a number that haveromoters massive followers. 300,000, 400,000. They are posting relentlessly about trump winning the election. It is a landslide. All of the liberals are going to cry. They are not talking about q, but talking about the iconography. Emily how do you imagine they will have and will influence through Inauguration Day . Could they make a big impact . Mike they are making an impact on the people that turn to them for news, interpretation, or the real story of what is going on. Most people, the majority of people understand the election is over and joe biden is going to be certified by the electoral college. That is going to happen. With these people, this small, group of true believers, they have been with us conspiracy for years. They are not going to walk away when it gets hard. Evacuate now in our moment of triumph . This is their moment. They are not going to evacuate. It will come down hard on them inaugurateden is and all of this ends. Emily there is an app called number one int downloads after joe biden selection. Areou look closely, there profiles with qanon in their name. There is discussion of holocaust has a, the proud boys Strong Influence there. Will takenk parler similar action that facebook has taken . What happens, or a different approach . Whereparler is the place conspiracy believers go to complain about twitter when they get banned from twitter. Then they go back to twitter. Parler is never going to take over as the new twitter. It is to buggy and too much of a closed circle. You dont have liberals you can argue with. It is too much of an echo chamber. Right now it is doing well because you get these people who feel like twitter is being too heavy with the censorship, warnings and stuff like that. Eventually these people will come back to twitter because that is where the battle is. That is where most people are. Most people dont know what parler is. Lets talk about postinauguration. Where do these followers go . What are they doing if President Trump founds a new media empire . Mike they will follow trump. They look at him as a messianic figure, touched by the almighty and by military intelligence to carry out this complex mission. The mission has not been fulfilled. They look at themselves as digital servers to serve at the pleasure of the president. They will not accept joe biden is the president. They will look at donald trump as the figure that is giving orders. They are not going to leave this behind. They are too invested. Too much time and money. Andve lost their families isolated themselves. They are in this now. Emily wow. Messianic. Mike rothschild, Fascinating Research you are doing. Thank you for that window into that world. All right. Coming up, peloton. While the pandemic has battered some companies, it has opened the door for others. We will speak to the global head of marketing next on the new marketing goals and partnership with beyonce. This is bloomberg. [ sigh ] not gonna happen. Thats it. Im calling kohler about their walkin bath. My name is ken. How may i help you . Hi, im calling about kohlers walkin bath. Excellent happy to help. Huh . Hold one moment please. [ finger snaps ] hmm. The kohler walkinbath features an extrawide opening and a low stepin at three inches, which is 25 to 60 lower than some leading competitors. The bath fills and drains quickly, while the heated seat soothes your back, neck and shoulders. Kohler is an expert in bathing, so you can count on a deep soaking experience. Are you seeing this . The kohler walkinbath comes with fully adjustable hydrotherapy jets and our exclusive bubblemassage. Everything is installed in as little as a day by a kohlercertified installer. And its made by kohler americas leading plumbing brand. We need this bath. Yes. Yes you do. A kohler walkinbath provides independence with peace of mind. Emily bloomberg tech. This is this is bloomberg tech. Chang in San Francisco. If there are any winners in the pandemic, peloton is one of them. The virtual Fitness Industry has seen unprecedented demand. But companies that have rocketed ,uring the pen, like peloton took a hit, but bounced back one day later after announcing a partnership with one of the worlds biggest stars, beyonce. sth this right now, peloton Senior Vice President and head of Global Marketing and communication, dara treseder. Obviously, this is huge, beyonce in partnership with peloton. How did you get her on board . Dara thank you so much for having me. We are so excited beyonce has been a peloton for several years. So she has been a member of peloton, she has been a part of the community, and the Partnership Came together in a true spirit of collaboration. She recognized the power of music to engage and empower people as part of their fitness and wellness journey. 2020 has been a unique year. It has been a unique moment. And beyonce is a unique artist. And when you work with beyonce, you have to go big. So this is a multiyour partnership between beyonce and peloton, rooted in the celebration of music, community, and culture. Emily as you say, it has been an unprecedented year. In a way, the pandemic has been your largest marketer. Shares are up 250 with almost no traditional marketing. How has that shaped your strategy as a person who leads marketing . Dara you know, one of the things and i get so much credit to our founder and ceo john foley, because he knew something we now all know to be true, that he knew it before the whole world had gotten there, that you can get a great workout from the comfort of your own home with a connected fitness product, that is in many cases better that the work that you were getting anywhere else. And i think all that confidence right now is that more people have come to see that as true, and more people have given this incredible, connected fitness category an opportunity. We definitely believe and know this to be true. What is happening with our members, how our numbers are engaging as part of the community, these are things that have always been true and will continue to be true. Emily you have a new campaign with real writers and are planning to ramp up International Marketing efforts. What are we going to see you in the next year as we had to a new normal . Dara we are really excited. We always care about our members and communities and on october 5, we launched our firstever Brand MarketingCampaign Featuring real numbers. The campaign really highlighted the strengths of our member community. It talked about how we keep each other accountable and how the power of connected fitness has allowed them to interact with each other. Started, our focus as a company was on education, educating people about the category. Now, everyone understands. Any people understand, our target audience understands what this category is. So it is up to us to show the fullness and richness of the celebrateperience to in more communities. So we are excited to start doing that with our own actual members. In this campaign was a great way to do that. Got a lot ofn criticism last year after an ad that showed an incredibly fit Woman Working out on her peloton that was given to her by her male partner. I know that was months before you joined the company, but how much did that set you back and give peloton a need for a reset . Wasntike you said, i here at the time. One thing we are focused on as a company is, we are always focused on telling real stories, authentic stories about our member community. So what we are really focused on now is how we share more of those stories and bring more of those stories to life. And we have been doing that on a big scale. We have outcampaign in market, we all have our reason, is allowing us to elevate and share the message on a big scale. And as far as what we are doing Going Forward, we are focused on continuing to tell the stories of our communities, and continue to make movement and fitness more accessible. Pelotons Inclusive Community is part of what makes us unique. And as we get new artan or zend different types of storytelling, andow get new partners different types of storytelling, it makes us more powerful to be able to Share Community in a broader way. Emily if we do get a vaccine in the near future, if things do reopen, if we do start to return to normal life, how does that impact your outlook for peloton Going Forward . We ares a company, always focused on doing what is right for our members, continuing to innovate and make sure we are delivering a world class experience. And we know that as long as we continue to do those things, we are going to continue to create an environment and a community in a space that our members want to be a part of. So that is what we are really focused on. And you know, a part of that is improving accessibility. We are going to continue to do those fundamentals. Partnership is an example of a strategic partnership, a different type of marketing campaign. It is a partnership that allows us to make our platform more accessible. Part of the partnership wasnt just the music and fitness and we alsowe are creating, give a peloton digital membership to all students at 10 historically black colleges and universities, and the purpose was to improve cultural access. Cultural access, we made a pledge as a company to be antiracist, and this is a first step in that direction, hbcusg with acb use and their student bodies. So we are going to continue to tell Amazing Stories and continue to make our communities more accessible. Is a that said, this crowded market and their ot and there are other options out there for equipment, classes, you even have Apple Fitness options. The main issue with peloton continues to be wait times. Can you give us an update on how long supply constraints and wait times are going to last . Dara you know, we are making progress towards the goal. We aree other retailers, experiencing some delays due to congestion. But we are continuing to make progress. The bikes should be back to normal by the end of the second quarter. Bike plus, we and continue to work on that. We are continuing to make progress, and some of these things are due to congestion at our ports. Emily i know people are going to be wanting to burn off their thanksgiving calories, so i am sure they peloton i am sure a peloton or peloton subscription will be popular. What are you expecting for the holidays, your demand and trend outlook over the next six weeks . Dara what of the things we did when we introduced bike plus, our new product, as we were deciding what to do, we lowered the price on our original bike. And the price lowering we offered is our best offering, better than the offer we gave last year around black friday cyber monday. And we already made that available to our members as a part of our continuing push around accessibility. So during the holiday season, we have already brought that community. Our we want our members and people interested in joining our community to continue to take advantage of that, to take advantage of the new, lower price, for 49 per month. You can get the original bike and start to access the Amazing Library of content that peloton has. Right, happy christmas for folks who might get a peloton for the holidays. Senioreseder, peloton Vice President and head of Global Marketing and communications. Thank you. Breaking news, instacart has tasked Goldman Sachs to lead an billion valuation. Instacart, a grocery delivery service, a company that has seen a in the midst of a pandemic, a story we will follow, and another one to potentially add to the list of ipos we expect later this year, including airbnb commodored airbnb, doordash and more. Up next, we break down the numbers. This is bloomberg. Emily despite the many challenges and hardships, i am proud to say we have been steadfast in effectively managing our business is under enormously difficult circumstances. Duringnt persevered these tough times, we have taken a number of deliberate steps and smart risks that have positioned our company for greater longterm growth. Mily Disney Ceo Bob Chapek on the earnings call, the company beating expectations, reporting 73. 7 million subscribers on disney plus partner also reporting losses, disneyland to remain closed until the end of the year and along with movie theaters in disney world, operating at only 35 capacity. We will monitor headlines and bring you updates. Meantime, palantir issuing its First Financial support thursday since going public, beating estimates. The Company Expects sales growth to slow next year. Stocks fell after hours. Since starting in 2003, palantir has operated with little attention to profits paid lets bring in bloombergs ed ludlow, who has been following the support. Following this report. What are the big takeaways . Ed the company has been a beneficiary of the global pandemic. Fromompany takes data Government Agencies to the private sector and corporate and helps them integrate all the different data somebody would need to put on their platform. That is all they do. As one analyst put it, the coronavirus pandemic has caused datadriven chaos and palantir has been a beneficiary of that because it helps put customers helps Customers Put data all in one place. It signed its biggest, commercial contract with an Unnamed Company in the aerospace industry. Ince the company was founded 2003 by peter thiel, he has essentially bankrolled. It reported a wider loss than expected for the quarter, but it is focused on headcount and very conservation following the direct listing. What are you following over the coming weeks . Certainly, this continues to be a Controversial Company given their work with the government. And the ceo has says, you can invest or not, we are going to continue this work. We thank president elect biden will cut defense spending. The dod and defense is a big source of revenue for palantir, but the hypothesis is that palantir will profit because Data Integration is cheaper what traditional defense contractors offer. Benefit if jill biden becomes president and that may boost revenue. Reporter ed ludlow in San Francisco for us, thanks, ed. Tiktok there company Bytedance TiktokParent Company bytedance has a new december deadline, seeking to block the sale of the viral video app by President Trump. The sale date was today. Would bring in kurt wagner, who covers social media for us. Kurt, where do we stand . Kurt quite complicated. But they have a deadline today. The deadline is still in place. The deadline was sent by the Treasury Department. The Treasury Department said you need to figure out a deal and have it completed by tonight. That is not quote to happen. So the question is going to be, does the Treasury Department actually go after tiktok for missing the deadline . What you mentioned is a similar but different process that tiktok is also fighting this order in court, the court said bring some documents to us in the next 30 days, by mid december, two review that, but that does not necessarily mean that the deadline with the Treasury Department has been wiped clean. Obviously, the administration has a lot on its plate, including contesting the election. What is your sense of whether the Treasury Department, with everything going on, will go after this . That we are now six or seven hours away from the deadline and there has been no real, official word on whether the Treasury Department is going to do anything, we think this has taken a much lower priority than it did six weeks ago, when we were talking about this a lot. I think if they missed this deadline, which is expected, but it would require is, it would require the Treasury Department to go after tiktok legally. I dont know if we are going to see that, given the fact there is going to be a president ial transition. This may be the kind of thing that is in limbo for a while until the Biden Administration gets in office. I probably shouldnt predict these kinds of things, but this has been a wild story that has really changed, it feels like, every time you and i speak. Emily and nobody can really predict what is to happen on any day of the trump administration. That said, the Commerce Department did way yen on this. What did they say . Kurt the Commerce Department confirmed something we already knew. At the end of october, a judge in pennsylvania said the u. S. Government could not and tiktok could not ban tiktok. It pushed the idea out. The president had been threatening a ban on tiktok for some time. So the Commerce Department came out today and said we are about to follow what the judge said, acknowledge we cannot ban tiktok right now. And then, they challenged that ruling. So basically, they said we are not going to do this thing we said we might, we are challenging getting hopes we can do it sometime in the future. Righttok is not banned now, but the government isnt getting up, seeing if there is some kind of penalty they can issue. Emily bloombergs kurt wagner, thank you for your reporting. We will see what happens tomorrow. Ipo advisors specter record amount of activity from thanksgiving to the christmas holidays, from airbnb to Food Delivery Service isrdash, and the ipo boom set to keep rolling in 2021. A preview next. This is bloomberg. As airbnb prepares for its nasdaq debut, other consumerfacing Tech Companies are joining the public, which has dominated by has been dominated so far this year by Enterprise Software companies. I want to bring in our tech reporter katie roof. Katie the next few weeks are going to be pretty busy. Which, airbnb, doordash, most are not all of most if not all of these could be tens of billions of dollars in value. So it is going to be a very active late fall. These are mostly consumer companies, which contrasts with september, where we saw a lot of Enterprise Companies going public. It is a busy thanksgiving to christmas time period. Emily airbnb had a filing that was delayed for a few days and we have newer working air is have a report we airbnb is working on an exchange ipo and that hasnt been decided. What do we know about how airbnb plans to do this . Katie we expect the airbnb filing to, next week. The delay is that they didnt want attention to the election to steal their thunder. So everything is still going to plan for airbnb. We should still expect them to go public by the end of the year. We will see their filing next week. The thing about the longterm stock exchange, they are considering doing that in tandem with the nasdaq. The nasdaq is going to be the Main Exchange they are working with, but it is possible they will also list on the longterm stock exchange. That hasntstartup really had Companies Going up on its exchange yet, but it is a venturebacked startup hoping to Work Companies that do good for society, and they are working with airbnb to see if it could list some shares there. Emily that would be an interesting and Dramatic Development if that happens. Reuters reports instacart has tasked Goldman Sachs for a 30 billion ipo. Wish, affirm, what stages are they at . Wish, andrdash, affirm, we expect all to go public before the end of the year. We expect all those findings to come out within the next week or so, and the ipos to debut between thanksgiving and christmas. Be earlys ipo could next year. Expect bumble and thread up to go public next year, and quite a few other names that are rumored. Poshmark has said the timing for their ipo is getting worked out, but it could be soon. Emily bloombergs katie roof reporting in San Francisco. Katie, thank you for your reporting. That does it for this edition of bloomberg tech. We will be following all these companies on the road ipo, airbnb, instacart, wish, affirm, watch for all of those on bloomberg technology. Asia is upaybreak next. Im emily chang in San Francisco. This is bloomberg. Haidi good morning. We are counting down to asias major arc at open. Shery welcome to daybreak asia our top stories this hour asia look set to follow wall coronavirus has fears of further lockdowns and theres the worry of a timing of a relief package in haidi washington. President trump tak