Trying always to understand this new culture. You are not a visitor. You want to become a citizen. In for migrants your platform for a while information. The most ambitious spending plan in spain that democratic history thats what Prime Minister had both options call that but can it pass parliament will it be a not. Also want to show chip maker a. M. D. Vice competitor xilinx and a mega deal as the pandemic drives a record amount for computer chips. And a un report says rich countries are exporting millions of dangerous dirty cars to developing new. It is urging them to feel. This is the doorway business imes an elder on in berlin thanks for joining us stan plans to increase taxes on corporations and the wealthy to find a Bigger Health an infrastructure spend and to help rebuild a coronavirus damaged economy but the proposal faces an uncertain future in Parliament Meanwhile widespread strikes from workers especially impacted by the pandemic have hit the streets. These 2 of us drivers h
Has the details. I just spoke with kirk over at isi i wanted his take. He said microsoft is firing on all cylinders, beating all three major categories, Strong Quarter across the commercial franchises it was better than the street was looking for. Kirk said growth is translated into increasing profitability. He said are enterprises willing to spend giving this backdrop and in one of those segments he mentioned 12. 3 billion up 11 . Commercial revenue gross of 20 . Intelligent cloud 13 billion up 20 . And more personal computing, up 6 shares not doing a lot in the after hours. The forecast will be delivered on the call which starts at 5 30 a. M. As josh mentioned, no guidance i am sure every one wonders what they will say about Enterprise Spending especially with the news delivered yesterday what do you make of the quarter . They hit on everything. Josh went through it across the board better, with the Cloud Services area. What we are waiting on now is what is the forecast, what do thin
California not far from l. A. At least 90000 people evacuated as high winds and dry conditions create whats being called the most dangerous fire conditions this year. And german chancellor Angela Merkel is going to really planning to announce strict new voices to slow the surge of coronavirus daily cheeses in germany are expected to take 20 down to 6 by weeks end. Welcome to the show we began with the widening backlash against french president and. Anger and the muslim world is growing over a controversial comments he made about islam following the brutal murder of a french teacher since then massive anti france rallies have been taking place across moslem lunch already countries with protesters calling for a boycott of french goods. The target of their anger is clear. Here in pakistan protesters in karate and islamabad accuse the french president of attacking islam. For asking the behavior of the french government is actually an insult of billions of muslims across the world its open
Amd to buy xylinx. Is there more room to run on amd . Well explore that one when power lunch begins right now earnings season is supposed to be a report card for companies. Lets go to bob pisani for more on this lack of guidance bob . Kelly, once again, the Fourth Quarter, another quarter with the lack of guidance its a bit of a problem because the analysts again having a hard time figuring out what the right numbers are. Remember, the earnings numbers have been coming in very well, generally weathering but again, big companies, no guidance from caterpillar, 3m, xerox, Stanley Black and decker. Others like Harley Davidson didnt give guidance either. Raytheon, corning. No guidance from companies. Analysts have a tougher time and theyve been very conservative and wrong so far fortunately wrong on the conservative side. Look at all these companies out there. 83 are beating for the Third Quarter and theyve been beating by almost 20 . Its an amazing beat and shows you the analysts have been
Dorsey, and alphabets sundar pichai, are set to testify virtually tomorrow. Section 230hange could have longterm ramifications on free speech on the internet. Banned news political ads. We will ask Cambridge Analytica whistleblower as part of our special electioneering series. First, lets get a read on stocks and microsoft results. Abigail doolittle with us from new york. Big beats out of the gate. Abigail in the after hours, they are trading higher. Although i think what we are about to look at could be all over the map at the moment. They are talking about the idea that further lockdowns could hurt demands. Their Cloud Business was weak. Microsoft Cloud Business very strong. That was a piece of the beat. Maybe part of the business that could have gone to microsoft. Again, after hours, this stock is trading higher on the year. Valuation is rich, but the theter is good enough that stock is doing just fine. The s p 500 index and the dow down once again. The nasdaq climbed sharply higher