Good monday morning welcome to squawk squawk im jon fortt with Carl Quintanilla and julia. Were in the final stretch of 2020 were focused on two big ipos, airbnb and doordash. Airbnb is bouncing back strong doordash saw demands surge both of those companies seeing encouraging demand for shares and to define the future of the gig and sharing economies. Leslie picker has the latest on the ipo process. Its important to underscore the rarety of this level of issuance in a single week. Excluding spacs, were expecting to see more than 7 billion worth of ipos this week. Since the start of 2014, only three other weeks have surpassed that kind of volume. Most recently, in mid september there was, if you remember, there was a big week of software debuts unity, jay frog went public. The only week thats saw greater issuance was in may of 2019 when uber went public and then september 2014 when alibaba went public what is different this time, though, is that the billions of dollars in new stock is c
Advisor has resigned. It comes one day after President Trump fired mark esper. Not give a reason for his resignation. A vatican investigation to x Cardinal Theodore mccarrick has found bishops, cardinals, and popes downplayed or dismissed reports that he sexually abused children and adults. The vatican took the extraordinary steps today of publishing its twoyour internal probe into mccarrick. The report places most of the blame on the late Pope John Paul as 1999, newarly that the behavior was problematic. Global news 24 hours a day, onair, and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Im Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. Vonnie it is 1 00 p. M. In new york, 5 00 p. M. In london, and 2 00 a. M. In hong kong. Im vonnie quinn. Welcome to bloomberg markets. Here are the top stories we are following on the bloomberg and from around the world. Will there be any thawing of relations between china and the u. S. Under a biden presidency
Germany is set to rein in public and private parties. Its inflation rate falls further below zero. The ecb may need to do more. Christine lagarde speaks in 90 minutes time. Disney cuts deep. They will lay off 28,000 workers at its resort business, leaving one of the deepest economic scars of the covid era. Welcome to the program. Just gone 7 00 in london. Waiting for data to come out from the u. K. Economy and some news expected from shell. Lets get to the u. K. Data first. This is the final reading on u. K. Gdp, coming in not far away from where we anticipated it to be. Estimate was 21. 7. 19. 8 percent for the quarter on quarter numbers. These are all negative. A retreat of 19. 8 in the second corner. The estimate was 20. 4 . Thats just a small detail. We are dealing with incredibly large negative numbers. They are very backward looking. The real question will be, how does that data perform . How has the economy performed since the Second Quarter . How will liberal perform as we head
Of that in about an hour. Apple is sometimes seen as a proxy on consumer spending, entertainment, computer, mass mutual fund reflecting how we all feel and our appetite to buy stuff. Some of this stuff were told could be very, very pricey. Depending how it all lays out, when tim cook makes the announcement, well have a good idea how much americans are willing to fork over if it gets you know, pricey. But again this is not really been a problem for apple in the past, as you have been hearing here. It is the most widelyheld stock on the entire planet. Just amazing. But, all eyes on amy barrett in washington right now, the judiciary committee, taking up her confirmation process to get on the Supreme Court as an associate justice but not without a lot of talking. Not so much on her part, on the questioners part. There are 22 senators, 12 republicans, 10 democrats who have been allocated 30 minutes to ask their questions. That works out to about 11 hours of questions and at the pace theyre
Reporter what a difference a day makes, right . A major turn around for the markets. The dow on pace to snap a threeday losing streak. The s p and nasdaq on pace to snap a fourday losing streak. The dow up 139. Nasdaq up 184. It is all about the technology, my friends. Apple, amazon, microsoft, google, facebook all up today. Amazon leading those fang stocks. Why . Bernstein upgraded that stock saying the selloff in that stock was a good reason to buy. Dont hold back here. What the bernstein analyst had to say. What else is going on . Interestingly tesla, battery day, weve been talking about them on the network all day long, right . If you want to know what the big money thinks, guess what . One analyst says this would be a snare tiff change for tesla. An important day. Stock is down as you see. What is going on . Elon musk saying company will not likely reach selfsufficiency in batteries until at least 2022. Well definitely watch that, well definitely watch battery day. So far not so g