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
Good wednesday morning welcome to squawk alley. Im john for the with caro quintanilla and Julia Borstin well start with apple, a cost cut for Small Developers josh lipton breaks down the news for us. Here is how the new program is going to work its called the App Store Small Business Program it launches on january 1st and it does represent a big change here. Developers earning up to 1 million during the Previous Year will now be eligible for a commission of 15 on paid apps and inapp purchases, and that is half of apples Standard Commission apple says the new program will impact what it says is the vast majority of developers selling Digital Goods and services on the store. Tim cook saying in a statement the app store has been an engine of Economic Growth like none other, creating millions of new jobs and a pathway to entrepreneurship accessible to anyone with a great idea for investors this change is also important remember, the app store is critical for apple it accounts for an estima
Becky is off we have a lot to get to. The s p 500 flirting with the new record high. Closing seven points lower futures pointing to a pull back the dow looks like it is off nasdaq off about nine points showing you stocks in europe also under pressure talking about why this would be. Closer to 2 in britain. And treasury yields look at the note looking at. 696. We are starting to see in covid cases pick back up in europe, which may impact here. Well try to talk to dr. Scott gottlieb about that. Fortnite maker epic games taking on apple and google over what it calls anticompetitive behavior giving users a discount and cutting out the e map services which cuts out the ability to take a 30 cut from sales. New users will not be able to download the game and existing users wont be able to download any updates. Google followed the lead and removed the game from the app store and was also hit with a lawsuit. The feature was not reviewed they did it with the express intent of violating the guide
Taken by the Federal Reserve the path depends of course on the virus it societies the crisis will weigh heavily in the medium term and poses keshl risk, very much a carbon copy, just a couple additions here and from the year, there was one other change that i will tell you about. It was that the path of the economy will depend significantly on the course of the virus. Kelly . We appreciate it. Were going to welcome in our fed panel. Mona hodges, david kelly and jim carron its great to have you all here. Ill go to you, dave, for what you think are the most important messages as we watch the markets so far showing little change from where we saw before the decision came out. Really whats happened since their june meeting is we have seen a surprisingly strong bounce, but then the viruses come back, and that resurgence is what theyre saying is this is not over we know its very uncertainty. The economy has a lot of recovery to do yet, and theyre going to remain very dovish while the pandemi
I wanted to point to the mexican peso. Has not moved much today but we are keeping an eye on the earthquake that struck the country. Now lets get a status report on the credit markets. 13 u. S. Companies sought bankruptcy parks section protection last week. It comes even with the intervention of the fed which has injected liquidity across the markets and given borrowers. For more insight, lets bring in srikanth sankaran. The last time we spoke, we were already seeing a calming in the credit markets. Where do we go from here now that the fed has backstopped entire curve in the credit market . Srikanth our thesis over the next 12 months is we get a grind tighter with respect to spreads. Our call is for credit markets to deliver positive exit returns across investmentgrade and highyield markets. Effectively, you want to be more selective, but at the end of the day, this is an environment where you have to look at rerisking portfolios in times of weakness rather than missing out when the m