And into the fryer good thursday morning welcome to squawk alley. Were at post nine of the new york stock exchange. Dow is down 91 currently the worst drop of the year so far. The big news today though, amazon announcing the finalist for the hq2. We have details. Good morning, carl. And lets go straight to a map of the 20 contenders youll see that most of the locations, they fall in the midwest, south, and east coast of the country away from amazons current home of seattle and the west coast in general where most of the Biggest Tech Companies are. The only city from this coast, the west coast on that list is los angeles. And the only city outside the u. S. Is toronto, canada. It has tons of engineering talent close by. An interesting candidate given the current political environment. Now other contenders include cities that already have ties to amazon or jeff bezos like austin and washington, d. C. , and where he himself bought a home last year the other cities on the list like boston,
Nine of the New York Stock Exchange joining us this morning, kara swisher. Kara, good morning to you. Pressure continues this morning on facebook and its role regarding russias interference in the 2016 president ial election just yesterday the social network said it shared new findings about ad sales with fbi special Counsel Robert Mueller, this as house Intelligence Ranking member adam schiff is calling for not just facebook, but google and twitter to testify to hand over new information. We are requesting more information from facebook and have received some information, but there are a lot of Unanswered Questions frankly im distressed that its taken this long to be informed that the russians had paid for at least 100,000 in ads to try to influence our electoral process. Of course, that follows revelations last week that the social Network Allowed ads to target people that expressed antis antisemitic interests do you think overall its being over or under characterized . Well, i have
Today. Most news obviously going to be overshadowed by politics. As we said, stocks around the globe rallying after fbi director james comeys comments. The s p looks to break a ninesession losing streak. Jim, ive been looking for corporate news, micro stuff, thats just not going to pop today. No, look, mgm is going to have a good number, but i dont want to minimize it. I did a piece this morning, i look through the charts pretty much every weekend for the last 30 years. I didnt open because it really doesnt matter. Now, we did see the search in the futures and you could argue, now pretty crystal clear, the people who trade futures, whoever they are, clearly theyre not protrump. Or they may be protrump, but they think clinton wins. I found myself thinking, geez, i looked at earnings this week, there are some very important ones including retail. And they just dont matter. Matthew boss with an interesting piece today about how jc penney misses and thats on friday and how macys misses and