The s p and nasdaq shaking off earlier losses closing near the highs of the day. There is optimism out there about a economic recovery and also about hopes for a vaccine. So, optimistic day. We will get to the launch. Well spend a lot of the hour on it. First fox Business Team coverage of our top stories. Lauren simonetti on the markets for us, blake burman in washington who has the latest for the president who is in florida for the launch and Kristina Partsinevelos joins us with news on disney. We start, blake, with you. Reporter connell, melissa, speaking of that launch who wouldnt want a front row seat to it. Exactly where President Trump and first lady, the Vice President , section lady are right now in florida in advance of what we are expecting to be the historic launch about 31, 32 minutes from now at the Kennedy Space center. President trump taking a tour there. He was asked what his message is for those two astronauts who will be aboard the spacex rocket going up to the Intern
Good monday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. I am Carl Quintanilla with Morgan Brennan and jon fortt we start with a win for microsoft, beating amazon, oracle, ibm in that 10 billion defense contract with the pentagon known as jedi. Morgan has been covering this story from the beginning a lot of news over the weekend. A lot of news over the weekend on this. This was a downright dog fight between microsoft and amazon two years, laden with controversy. What is the joint enterprise defense structure. Theyll unite the u. S. Military within a single data framework, an umbrella cloud for all of the militarys current clouds. Up to 10 Year Contract with ceiling value of 10 billion amazon, microsoft, and earlier in the competition, ibm oracle, even google vying for this microsoft saying we look forward to expanding our Longstanding Partnership with dod, support our men and women in uniform at home and abroad. With our latest unique and differentiated azure cloud capabilities amazon saying were
Record, but some workers are not celebrating. Beyond. Ity and Richard Bransons Virgin Galactic could be the first Space Tourism business to go public. We will analyze demand. The first, top stories. Alphabet earnings. The report was impacted by heavy investment in googles Cloud Computing business. Google has been Building Data centers and hiring sales people that runsoud Unit Services over the internet. , our correspondent from bloomberg intelligence. Cloud is all the rage, potential for future growth. What did you make of it . Like you said, they are spending. They are showing results. What we are seeing for the next centerhey will take the focus and you will get success here and they have the capacity to compete. You will see this being a bigger deal for google but at a cost. What is your take on keeping up in the Cloud Business . Continued take investment as we just said, but there is a huge potential for payoff. Taylor i want to talk about the statement it looks like Topline Revenu
A guest. Just tell us which german street is your favorite. Whats the most beautiful place in germany. What would you like to explore most to enter check in at g. W. Dot com slash travel good luck and enjoy some. No deal and site russia and ukraine can not to agree on a new long term gas transit contract just people in europe fearing theyll end up sitting in the cold also coming up mario draghi says it is time for more europe not less as he takes his lead from the European Central bank and lobster is big business in the northeastern u. S. State of maine but with the u. S. China trade war grabbing on others are now in for a big catch. Im chris kobach in the program winter is coming and fears are growing in europe that it could be a cold one russia and ukraine have failed to agree on a new long term natural gas transit contract thats raising fears of possible cuts and europe as russian gas bound for the e. U. Transits through ukraine disagreements over gas payments have long marred the c
Bank warns anticorruption protests could cause the economy to collapse the demonstrators say the bank is part of the problem. Im chris cuomo welcome to the program went 1st coming and fears are growing in europe that it could be a cold one russia and ukraine have failed to agree on a new long term natural gas transit contract thats raising fears of possible cuts in europe as russian gas bound for that you transits through ukraine theres agreements over gas payments have long marred the countrys bilateral relations with russia and a controversial pipeline project isnt exactly helping to pacify the baked this is the end of a very long pipeline 200000 steel tubes running 1230 kilometers under the baltic sea the energy megaproject nord stream to is almost complete. Russia says the old pipelines that brought its gas to western europe have reached their capacity in. Limit north stream 2 adds to more lines but it also makes russia far less dependent on the pipelines that cross ukrainian terri