Stimulus deal9 and the promise of a covid vaccine. Cloud computing giant salesforce has agreed e to buy slack in a 27 billion deal. Slacks instant messaging system will position salesforce to compete with microsoft. Warner brothers announced it will release its 2021 films on hbo max at the same time they debut in theaters. On the round table, ben levisohn, carlton english and jack howe. Ben, we got pretty weak jobs numbers today, but the market shrugged it off, and everything ended up higher. Thats right, jack, everything went higher. It doesnt matter if you were maul cap or large cap, the techheavy nasdaq or the Dow Jones Industrial average, the market just went higher. That comes down to stimulus. Congress is talking again, democrats and republicans are trying to come to a deal, this is a number out there, and it looks like it could get done. If it does, it makes up for the data. Payroll number missed expectations, but people were expecting a weak number, and the weakness is really i
Cloud computing giant salesforce has agreed e to buy slack in a 27 billion deal. Slacks instant messaging system will position salesforce to compete with microsoft. Warner brothers announced it will release its 2021 films on hbo max at the same time they debut in theaters. On the round table, ben levisohn, carlton english and jack howe. Ben, we got pretty weak jobs numbers today, but the market shrugged it off, and everything ended up higher. Thats right, jack, everything went higher. It doesnt matter if you were maul cap or large cap, the techheavy nasdaq or the Dow Jones Industrial average, the market just went higher. That comes down to stimulus. Congress is talking again, democrats and republicans are trying to come to a deal, this is a number out there, and it looks like it could get done. If it does, it makes up for the data. Payroll number missed expectations, but people were expecting a weak number, and the weakness is really in the areas that we already knew would be weak like
Good morning, everybody. Im becky quick and welcome friyay were watching the equity futures. Three down days in a row, but the dow did make a pretty stunning recovery, down actually over 300 points after the numbers at 8 30 yesterday that showed that initial jobless claims were higher than anticipated. Ended down by 20 points at the end of the session this morning dow futures down about 13, s p s p are flat lining, nasdaq basically flat lining too well be watching this closely to see how people shoring things up you as we head into this weekend. And also take a look at what is happening in the treasury market the ten year which yesterday fell back below 7. 0 and now is 7. 26 . Lets talk about what happened last night. President trump and former Vice President biden making their case to the American People on dueling town halls i was sitting there with my remote going back and forth, both events focusing on the Trump Administrations handling of tGlobal Pandemic. Do you support herd immu
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Conversation, what jack dorsey told barrons. My colleagues, ben levisohn, carlton english and jack howe. So, ben, according to lpl, the market had its best 50day streak in all of history, and that was before fridays 800point jump. Is this all about jobs . Whats going on . Yeah, i mean, the market certainly sniffed out something, Something Big happening, and it really, i think, was shown in this jobs report. 2. 5 million jobs were created last month, and to show just how crazy that number is, the most optimistic economy who was surveyed expected a job loss of 800,000. I mean, its just an enormous dishes, and this is difference, and this is fantastic news showing that the recovery from the coronavirus shutdown is going faster than anybody really expected except for maybe the stock market. [laughter] jack so as investors, with we a always want to think about risks, right . There could be a second wave of pandemic, we still have three times as many people collecting Unemployment Insurance