the dow briefly gaining 500 points before ending the day take a look at u.s. equity futures. if we opened up now, the dow would be up by 280 points. nasdaq looking to open 100 points higher. looking at the 10-year note standing at 1.65 big time fire works last night. the president did layout his 2020 agenda one day before his likely impeachment acquittal and day after the iowa caucus. it was nancy pelosi s reaction going viral. we ll go now to washington we have to hashtag everything now. it is #rip it up what is trending in the old days, you used to try to get the sound bite. now you try to get that meme that will go viral the president giving a starkly partisan speech, met by a starkly partisan reaction. the political divisions were on display as the president gave his third state of the union address. the opening of the speech was all about the economy. the president making the case ultimately for his reelection. he talked about his favorite metric, which is the stock
10 points off the record high we saw last week. Things get more interesting if we go into the individual movers, particularly when it comes to mna. Startoking at shggp to trading at speculation rumors. Some analysts saying it might be worth more like 28 a share. Ggp getting a little boost today. Qualcomm trading higher. It formally rejected broadcoms offer this morning at 70 a share. They said if that were to get to offer, you might see shareholders a little more excited about this deal. That is what is going on over in land. Let us look at square and twitter. Square, it raised to 44 a share over 38 a share. That stock of more than 1 . Twitter has been getting a lot of the headlines, but it is square that has been the big driver when it comes to growth this year. Come into my terminal. Were looking at the market cap square just surpassed that of twitter last week. You know how square was over 15 billion . In blue, we have twitter here at about 14. 8 billion. Jack dorseys stake in squar
They go on sale at over 17th. Apple had to first agree to improve User Security and privacy. I have been seeing some of those out there. Back to the big news. Ebay announcing it will separate ebay and paypal the businesses. American express executive dan shulman will be the new ceo for paypal, postseparation. He joins the Company Effective immediately. Bloomberg intelligence paul sweeney joins us now from princeton new jersey. Also with me as skycard is, the founder and former ceo of about. Com. Web 1. 0 as we talked about earlier. Want to turn to you first. You were building about. Com at the same time yuan must was building elon musk was building paypal. You guys were all first generation. This deal makes sense. Jobs growingt paypal. But we are high were going to have a massive disruption. Little card is not as productive as my iphone 6. We use braintree, which is an ebay company. It gives me pause. Ebay wants to use our data. We run a market place, we were ebay runs a marketplace. I
Electric car that can go more than 200 miles on a single charge. It will cost less than 40,000 dollars. Greece in germany are headed for a showdown in brussels. Finance ministers meet today over greeces request to extend the bailout agreement for six months. A new headlined says a deal tonight looks unlikely. Greece needs the extension to avoid defaulting on its debt. Germany has rebuffed the greek request. The german finance minister says greece needs to make a firmer commitment to austerity. Heres a greeces debbie Prime Minister responded. Deputy Prime Minister responded. At this moment, it appears there are powers that would like greece on its knees so they can impose their will. I believe we can think of what helps our country and what helps these powers. Betty germany is the biggest contributor to the 273 billion bailout to greece. The Parent Company ann taylor, looking to sell. Working with jpmorgan and reached out to potential buyers. It also owns the loft. The best antitrust re
Final trades. Stephanie, you are up first. Thank you. 10 decline to buy. Josh brown . Break up from january, i buy it here. Good year tires reporting tomorrow. We like it. Brian kelly . Europe is not fixed. Can you short it. That does it for us, catch fast at five tonight. Tomorrow, broadcasting from Goldman Sachs and internet conference. Thank you for talking real estate and markets with us today. Follow me on twitter. Poufr power lunch begins right now. The second half of your trading day begins now. Iphone, ipod and ipad. But how about an iwatch. Apple doing what it did to the cell phone. Will it indeed be another gamechanger . Us airways, expected to an announce their highly anticipated mer anticipated merger this week. A down day for stocks but of course weve add big run. Is it a pause, pull back or do we rally on . We will ask Credit Suisses leader in private banking. Indicies are up. 18 stocks are down, led by home depot. But only by a fraction. Down 1 . A move in that stock of