Good thursday morning, welcome to squawk alley. Stocks did take a leg lower at the open the s p bounced right off of the 50 day well watch that closely but were off of the low levels of the early session. Here is the president yesterday on oracles deal with bite dance stands you said it was important that a u. S. Company buy tiktok. Were going to find out about that were looking at that from the standpoint of bitedance. We dont like that conceptually we dont like that. That has not been told to me yet. That has been reported but not told to me speaking of reporting, david faber has more of that for us. Not a lot of insight on that key question siting a source close to the deal, the conversations, that have been ongoing for awhile now. The president is most likely to make a decision in the next 24 to 36 hours. Not likely today, but prior to the weekend, im told, by someone familiar with the situation that he will make a decision as to the future ownership of tiktok here in the united st
Public. Deciding that the scrutiny directed toward him had become too much of a distraction. The resiliency of facebook, despite the backlash over big tech. I get that. Im not the ideal messenger for this right now. We have work to do to build trust. What does the future hold as we head into 2020 . A special edition of Halftime Report in San Francisco, begins right now. And we welcome you to 1 market we have a great lineup today were going to be joined exclusively in a little while by snowflake chairman and ceo Frank Slootman as he prepares to take the Company Public in the year ahead. Frederick kerrest, the cofounder of okta, that stock up more than 90 this year were joined by Brad Gerstner who helped us take stock of whats happening in the valley throughout the year. Deirdre bosa is with us, covered the ipo and Venture Capital markets closely as anybody its great to have both of you here so brad, interesting year to say the least. Uber, lyft, they go public wework blows up. What do y
David i dont think people would recognize me if i fixed my tie, but ok. I dont consider myself a journalist. Nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began taking on the life of an interviewer even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . Let me go back to the beginning of golf. I am not a golfer. I took it up when i was 10. I took it up when i was nine, i quit when i was 10. Jack im not one anymore either. David but you were pretty famous. It was too frustrating and here is what i cannot understand. Why is it some new people are addicted to something that is so humiliating and frustrating to so many people . It never goes where it supposed to go, why are people addicted to it . Jack that is a pretty good question. Its a neverending pursuit of an unattainable goal. David right. Jack you could try all you want. Nobody has ever mastered the game. Other athletes left her play golf because love t
Season just step away from the roulette wheel because if you try to trade around the quarterly reports, you are going to get singed, if not burned after a record day, where the dow gained 27 points hallelujah s p climbed 2 , nasdaq inched up 0. 17 . That was easy earnings season is devastating for traders. No if you want to invest in a stock before reports and buy things if the stock gets hit thats another thing but trading no thanks. I didnt always feel this way. My Old Hedge Fund i used to place heavy bets on what would happen before it happened. I had as much legal information as i could get my hands on and always thought i had an opportunity to make a good call ahead of time but that was before regulation fd when the government leveled the playing field. When i was running you could meet with execs with small Interest Groups other people didnt want access or privy to that is illegal. These days everyone has access to the same information at the same time. I think thats fabulous. No
Im Tom Mackenzie in london. These are stories that set the agenda. The bank of japan hikes Interest Rates for the First Time Since 2007 and scraps yield curve control. The yen falls through 150 versus the dollar. Traders cut fed bets as fomc members gather. U. S. Two year fiveyear yields climb to the highest levels this year. Plus, nvidia unveils the successor to its old ai processor. But markets deliver a muted response to the highly anticipated speech. This is hopper. Hopper changed the world. This is blackwell. Tom a new era for the japanese economy. The first hike since 2007, ending of yield curve control, and an ending of etf thats in buying. We have Stephen Engle on the ground in tokyo for all the details and we will cross over momentarily. Lets check in on the markets as we set you up throughout the trading day. The fed starts its own policy meeting with that decision on wednesday and a focus on the dot plots, the focus from the fed officials. European futures up. When it comes