We will hear from the head of west coast listings jeff thompson. Lucids desert oasis just finished a listing in san francisco. We will get a picture of supply and demand with first, u. S. Stocks started the month off by hitting records on stimulus talks and covert progress. Salesforce says it will proceed with plans to buy lack for 7. 7 billion to buy slack for 7. 7 billion. Slack prices up, salesforce had dropped. What do we see after hours . Abigail both shares are down. The idea that salesforce. Com would buy slack, now lo and behold, that is happening. As you mentioned, 27 point 7 billion in cash and stock. Some are wondering about the cash piece. Salesforce. Com does have a lot of cash, so using it here for this deal, and i think the bigger thing to take a look at is the fact that salesforce. Coms Ceo Marc Benioff has made more than 60 acquisitions, as you know, in his 21 years, making salesforce. Com the conglomerate of all these different pieces. Now they have this Communication
Upside. Looking at commodities. Crude moving to the upside. A big move to the downside with , on the vaccine and signs of Economic Growth in the u. S. Particularly helping people not to look for havens or avoid havens, get out of them. Gold down half of 1 . Bitcoin surging up again, it has above 18,500. Juliette lets get the first word news. The head of the u. S. Government Coronavirus Vaccine program says results of trials by astrazeneca show encouraging signs it may help block the most severe cases. No one given the vaccine developed severe covid, while 16 people on the placebo debt. He called the results excited. Nine, reports 70 process astrazeneca report 70 success. The centers for Disease Control a model shows weekly u. S. Cases and deaths rising every week for at least the next month. Italy is the Second European nation to report 50,000 total fatalities. The u. K. Is extending lockdown next week in favor of even tougher regional curbs. Reports from washington say the Trump Admin
Work and no relief in sight. Speaking of relief, the top democrat in the Senate Chuck Schumer has republican Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell agreed the rekindle talks about a stimulus package the senate is on recess through next week. We will speak with Colorado Governor Jared Polis who just moved 15 counties including denver into level red restrictions he is also part of a group of governors speaking with president elect biden this weekend. Plus we will talk with the ceo of the National Association of manufacturers who is working with bidens team to help fight the pandemic today we have with us mike santoli, steer liesman mike, the broader markets are well off the lows as we speak. They are. Kind of a little bit of an aimless back and forth type day. Absorbed a little bit of a morning selloff. Didnt do any real damage it has been firmly bid, especially with son of the bigger nasdaq stocks coming back. Holding the indexes together relatively well. As we speak, the s p around 3,580. Tha
That would be a game changer. Bitcoins market cap is currently only 3. 1 the size of gold. As bitcoin and gold struggle between the risk off, is gone, copper is not hitting a sevenyear high. It looks a lot like that spike we see in early 2000 at the beginning of that chart, that is when china started commodities super cycles. Maybe there is some more longterm fundamental support from china. Lets get into the ring with todays top story. Opecplus agreeing to increase output starting in january, with monthly reviews to cf if more oil should be added. Alex longley joins us from london. What are the rules for the subsequent production hike . Alex there has been a fraud week of debate within opec. We have had the opecplus meeting. What we are hearing as they have agreed to hike production by 500,000 barrels a day in january, and will then have monthly reviews what they were at another 500 barrels a day to the market. That is doing the same, weve got a Strong Oil Market at the moment. But the
11. 6 billion deal on the top of the spanish 600. Part of the solution. Saying europes banks have come a long way since the last crisis and the sector is key to the recovery translator it is only with strong banks and Strong Capital market, europe can afford the means to fight the consequences of the europe pandemic for the first time President Trump publicly admits joe biden won the election but refuses to concede. Meeting with top vaccine makers as coronavirus cases across the u. S. Top 11 million. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the start of a new trading week lets get you right into the market action. The hand over from asia was pretty positive. The nikkei and the highest level ever positive data coming out of china. Industrial production beating expectations retail sales a miss but the strongest level it has been. Weve had news of the latest trade agreement signed in the asia pacific alongside china abolishing tariffs for 92 of the region another positive boost for stocks over