Good morning, it is midnight in beijing its 11 00 a. M. On wall street and squawk alley is live. Good friday morning welcome to squawk alley. Im jon fortt with carl quintanilla. Its the end of cloud week on squawk alley. What a week its been. They have brought news on custom chips, Machine Learning and more sales force announced plans to buy slack for nearly 28 billion in the second largest Software Deal ever. Weve had ibm and microsoft weigh in snowflake and others have turned in blah earnings well hear from the ceo this hour what does it mean for investors already sky high investor malic noijoins us now i cant believe we never had you on squawk alley before i hope this is a trend i want to start with sales force slack. I know that you have known stu butterfield for a long time, even before flicker was a hit. You think this very expensive deal makes sense why . So lets remove the price out of the equation. I think what youre looking at right now is in 2020, we have gone from the idea
Index, just marginally down. The real story has been the bounceback after last weeks fall for bitcoin, approaching record highs. 19,595. 1. 1 to the upside. Drivings within opec that crude oil price down. Lets look at what is going on in the emerging market context. Asian markets are bouncing back nicely after yesterdays big move to the downside. What has been responsible for this change in mood . , onethink first of all should partly see yesterdays price action as an anomaly. I think the Way Investors are now returning to the positive things like easy fed policy, Global Economic recovery, which was confirmed by asian pmis and the index that just came out, and optimism about vaccines. Juliette and your team has written a piece on the e. M. Currency outlook for 2021. It reads quite positively. What is the basis for all that optimism . Maybe there are three reasons. First, valuation. We believe that emfx is undervalued and conditions should be conducive to pushing them into overvalued te
And welcome to power lunch. Im melissa lee. Check out this rally right now all 11 sectors are in gree green. Taking a look at some of the stocks were watching. Salesforce is under pressure for the second day in a row, down about 7 in the last week as it gets set to report earnings after the bell and reportedly to make a deal. And we have exclusive data on how the bitcoin boom is boosting this payment stock first lets get over to bob for more on todays rally. Hey, bob hello, melissa. Good start to a traditionally good month we got talk about a new stimulus plan, janet yellen on the air and, overall, 11 sectors all on the up side. Bank stocks leading the way but technical stocks also. No dig selloff in tech that was also a november play there. Theres energy you have your value play with banks, energy up you have your growth play with tech, cyclical with industrials up and even more defensive groups, Consumer Staples on the up side as well. This is what i mean when i say the goldie locks
Jimmy li will join me this hour in this exclusive interview. Markets on the upswing to begin futures. Take a look at dow industrials 344 points. Nasdaq up 109. Thats almost 1 . S p higher by 9 points. The dow posting best month since 1987 with gain of almost 12 , other averages also higher by 12 and 11 all this as we await key testimony from federal jay powell and jimmy mnuchin today and unused covid relief funding. Return to high seas, we are taking you on a port on how they are getting ready. Another missing monolith moved. Making a buzz this morning. Mornings with maria live right now. Maria all right, european markets meanwhile look like this as rally is underway on wall street. European markets higher across the board. Ftse up 123 points. Almost 2 , cac quarante up 62 and dax index up 135. British factories reporting fastest growth in 3 years. Purchasing Managers Index rising to 55. 6 in the month of november. In asia overnight green across the board. Chinas manufacturing pmi54. 9
Dus good Tuesday Morning i spoke with aws ceo exclusively last night covering a wide range of topics. Youll hear about all hour including Data Warehousing and the emergence of snowflake in that space which by the way runs on aws heres what jasy said about whether there is room enough for snowflake and aws sorry, snowflake competitor from aws red shift in the market. I think its unquestionable that theres room for both snowflake and red shift to be very successful and grow to be very, you know, a lot larger than both of them are today. We launched redshift back in 2012 and it was the first Data Warehouse built for the cloud and continues to be the largest Data Warehouse in the cloud. And, you know, snowflake built a Data Warehousing offering as well that is also strong offering and largely runs on top of aws we work just as hard for snowflake in trying to make it easy for people to use redshift. From our perspective, if customers want to run on snowflake for their Data Warehouse on top