Along with kelly evans, im Tyler Mathisen stimulus hopes, the s p reviving overnight. But what about investors are their hopes a little too high this deal is going to get done well discuss that one plus, check out chip maker xilinx upping 14 . Well look into what could be a Seismic Shift for the semis. And jim cramer will lay out his seven sectors of opportunity, including his best picks in the restaurant space as power lunch begins right now. Tyler, thanks. We begin with new developments on stimulus negotiations a short while ago the president tweeted that covid relief negotiations are moving along, go big and reportedly raising his offer and maybe even raising it again ylan nmui, give us the latest. The question is is it big enough they will present a 1. 8 trillion offer to nancy pelosi this afternoon thats still 400 billion less than where democrats are at. Economic adviser larry kudlow said that would include aid for the airlines, direct checks and ppe and mentioned extending hanes
Recession, lots of people lost their jobs. But on the worst month, about 1 million americans. On the worst month of the pandemic so far, 20 million americans. And those numbers dont include the latest layoffs to hit the bay area. Uber says it will cut about 15 of its staff or about 3,700 people, which is just an amazing number. This according to paperwork the company filed with the sec. To that you can add almost 2,000 jobs at San Franciscos airbnb. Very few people are traveling, of course, and thats left the staff with very little to do. Airbnb cutting a quarter of its employees. The stock market not reacting to the numbers. It pushes those people who want to reopen the economy, that much harder, to reopen the economy. Heres the thing we dont know, marcus. Were going to risk lives to reopen the economy. Is it going to bring us back to normal or will it add fuel to the virus, creating another round of this pandemic which will simply make things worse . We seem to be very much between a
Well talk about that coming up. Speaking of taxes, coca cola ceo tells cnbc what he would do with a Corporate Tax cut well have all of those details coming up. Then theres best buy, its sitting out the rally today. Down pretty sharply. In fact, its off the lows right now. Less than 4 decline is the iphone to blame, iphone x to blame we have a debate on best buy coming up here. We begin, though, with the breaking news. Stocks hitting session highs as the house passes the tax bill. Ylan mui, our intrepid reporter on capitol hill has the latest for us right now ylan reporter bill, that final tally is 227205, that is a comfortable margin of victory for republicans. They said they were going to get this done by thanksgiving. No one really believed them. They were able to pull it off. Republican leadership held a press conference to celebrate. From the very start, we said that failure is not an option and the president and his team have worked so constructively every step of the way with us.
Stitch fix is having its first trading day doing, well lets see, it started out higher it did dip below the 15 ipo price. Its just above that level right now. Does the Subscription Service have ha what it takes to take on amazon a you know there are 2,000 companies in the same business essentially. Im shocked that its that high, actually. Birch box does makeup, and my favorite is the one called bark box for your dog they send treats and other fun things each month. Sounds like its right up your alley i guess President Trump said that he was focused on fair and reciprocal trade in asia during his trip overseas. Larry kudlow is going to weigh in on what that could mean for wall street. And whether investors should be concerned. Larrys not real hes not exactly seeing eye to eye with the president on trade issues ri right now. Thats for sure. We begin today with media merger talks heating up, sources saying comcast and 21st century fox, some of foxs assets and the cable giant, comcast, may
Were going to tell you about the new drug trial results weighing on that company today. Guess how it went. Well, it went well for someone else yeah. Exactly. Box office blues Movie Theater stocks are getting crushed again today. Six superheroes cant even save those shares being very opaque here but well explain coming up in a little bit. First, breaking news, just this afternoon on fed chair janet yellen, our dom chu has more on the story. All right, so guys, Federal Reserve chairman janet yellen will be leaving the fed completely in february and this is what some fed observers say is no real surprise. Fed chair yellens term as chairman expires in february we know this and President Trump has already made his pick to be the next fed head thats current fed governor Jerome Powell, of course, pending confirmation by the senate there had been some speculation around the notion, perhaps, yellen would maintain a presence on the fed board of governors since her term adds a governor of the cen