Suspending ant Group Listing major issues, this is days before the largest ipo of all time well give you the latest details. And social Media Election strategies how facebook and twitter aim to tackle misinformation on their platforms as voters head to the polls and beyond whatever beyond means, carl. David, thanks guys, were going to be talking all day and all night about arizona, florida, georgia, North Carolina, jim, goldmans got a note out just now saying because it would be difficult if the president does not win any of those states, quote, there is a good chance the election outcome will be clear on election night. Right, i think that thats what the market is saying. So the collectionive voice of the market, both yesterday and not just the morning, but when the nasdaq rallied in the afternoon and today with the futures, people say, we cannot afford after last week with the market being down, we cant afford to wait for the outcome we have to presume the outcome is going to lead to
No one knows them better than dan tillman. Plus, working from home, bitcoin and more. And demand for electric vehicles. We hear from the ceo. We have to get back to the markets. This is the top story of the markets ending the day near the session highs. Stocks tech stocks are ending high. President elect nominate janet yellen to be treasury secretary. So much news on the day. There is more positive news around vaccine. We have this big, cyclical valley. That brings another record high for the small caps. As you are pointing out, it has taken a few years for them to get a record high. Day, hitting the alltime high. The energy index is up. It will be interesting to see what is there and what happens in the future. Some are saying that the excitement around the iphone 12 is priced in and the buyers are stepping away. Nominate is likely to janet yellen, the former fed chair for treasury secretary. The markets took a move up. There was a moment where the s p 500 dipped ever so slightly. The
Welcome to squawk box. Im becky quick along with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. Futures are indicated higher this morning, triple digit gains for the dow up by about 167 points but yesterday was a big down day for the markets. Dow was down by over 400 points, 1. 4 the s p and nasdaq done evz nasy even more. This morning s p indicated up by about 25 and nasdaq looks like it would open up by over 100 points fairly significant obviously everybody watching what will be happening with the stimulus talks with the deadline that nancy pelosi has said for later today. Lets take a look at the treasury markets ahead of that, you will see that the ten year looks like it is yielding 0. 777 so a little stronger yields for the treasury markets right now but andrew, obviously washington is where people are watching and that is exactly where well go because House Speaker nancy pelosi and Steve Mnuchin are saying that they are making progress in their latest stimulus talks with time running short of
Swapping out pfizer for amgen. Raytheon youll hear later today. The largest oil and gas company with one software play dropping a respected drug company for a descent biotech . Kicking a defense contractor to the curb for an industrial if it makes you scratch your head, youre not alone these changes had enormous impact the dow dipping 60 points and the s p dipped and nasdaq gained 6. 7 in all honesty, these moves made a lot of sense they bring the dow closer to the reality of the new cone economyt the memory of the old. Before i delve into each trade, there is an aspect of the dow like the king to the s p 500 Prime Minister same t simultaneously more prestigious. Only included the dow because i had old investors regarded as the most important benchmark we live in the efts of trillions of dollars and whatever name gets swapped in, there is a gigantic wave of buying and selling. The dow has little money invested in etfs its a big deal if you work for them because this is an exclusive clu
Record close and we know why. I have to tell you this was just a parade of both American Ingenuity and strength there was a time when i was listening to brian i shouldnt just limit it to amazon every Conference Call last night with the exception of google was incredible the power of these companies is extraordinary and i dont think that we can actually brian ol staff ski when he talks he is the cfo of amazon, when he talks about the idea that basically we didnt know we were going to make billions of dollars more than we did. Not tens of millions, not hundreds of millions, but builds what a juggernaut. Most impressive of last night. David, i have a lot of good things to say about the others and good things to say about google, but amazon thankly is a company that basically has no idea how much money it can make. Ive never seen a company like this theres never been a company like this. Well, and the market agrees with you and investors have for a long time, jim, but they have delivered o