Skyrocketing a heart thumping 50 its not all rainbows and butterflies. Ibm was caught in a bad romance. The separation sending shares up 6 today more on the big blue breakout. Ibm has seen a little love from investors over the past decade so it is splitting itself in two and saying it will list its it services as a separate company next year. Investors initially cheering that move sending shares up about 6 but the ceo reminded inversers that it i ddivested in the 90s they didnt play into the value. Shares have under performed through the broader if he can sectors to broader names like or cal. But two years ago ibm was about watson and tech. It is said watson is barely mentioned on earning calls ibm was late to the game and still far behind amazon and google back to you. Lets trade this. Question, guy. I will start with you. When you start with a question, it always confuses me. Does this spinoff actually further ibms turn around plan or is this just Financial Engineering . The latter.
Look theyre higher across the board. The nasdaq is up by 134. Its early in the morning but these are pretty significant green arrows at this point take a look at whats happening at the treasury market and youll see that right now the ten year is yielding where it has been 0. 996 joe. Tik tok, the latest here. Developing late yesterday, the u. S. Judge blocked an order that would ban tiktok from being downloaded in the u. S. The ruling is the chinese owner byte dance has more time to get approval from u. S. And Chinese Authority which is unclear if that really happens for that deal with oracle and walmart the judge did not clock a much broader ban which is set to take effect on november 12th which the way things are going will be here like tomorrow i wanted 2020 to go quickly but now im thinking its just going too quickly. We wanted to go quickly. Still 2020. You still did your best Barbara Walters with that. 2020. And hugh, hugh had a long illustrious life hugh is gone now but we remem
Screen is driven by not the feds comments, a little boring with the zoom box or retail sales that we got or housing numbers. But what is happening at the mornings Research Meetings all over the country today where the down gained 37 points and the s p dipped and the nasdaq lost 1. 25 . More on that later today seemed like it was dominated by the fed in the amazing snow flake ipo and as someone that helped bring the microsoft ipo to goldman sachs, i know a big deal when i see one. More on the demons the deal unleashed. We had a nice rally going today and thats about what is going on behind the scenes every morning they have a meeting where they pitch the sales force on individual stocks and entire industries as buys or holds or very rarely sells after the pandemic got rolling, almost every piece of research that came out cut numbers. For individual companies and suggested the situation would get worse. The conclusion ive never seen so many sell eric men dae eric men dae er recommendatio
This comes after modest advances you did see gains. The second out of the last three sessions as joe mentioned it has been a rough week we are on track now if we continue on this pace to have the first down month weve seen since march. Looking at all the gains theyve built up on all of this. You are looking at fairly solid gains. It is a matter of days before we get to the end of the quarter. Take a look at the treasury yields now, especially the 10year. 0. 661 hasnt budged. Weve been sitting at these levels for some time weve got developing news right now. President trump asking a u. S. Court to let a ban on the tencent app wechat proceed the judge is giving the president to 2 30 this afternoon to postpone a ban on tiktok downloads. It doesnt pause the ban but says they must defend the policy in a sunday court hearing. The policy is currently set for 11 59 p. M. This sunday so a lot going on with the kvdel saga it was 11 59 last week too. What happens if you cant download it . Did you
A big move from stock, consumer launch from amazon big picture. This home in tech is about a new series of overlapping platform wars tiktok versus instagram. Sws versus aftezure julia, i would argue u. S. Versus china is shaping up to be a platform war platform war, jon, what youre saying is reciprocal trade. Were seeing this between china and the u. S. The question of whether it makes sense, safe for americans to have these chineseowned Companies Operating here in the u. S. Keeping in mind that u. S. Owned companies are not allowed to operate in china. Im talking about facebook i think its interesting to see how that dynamic plays out and this question of whether or not there should betiktok, mayb going to address that issue. Sand then apple, youre referring there, of course to this battle between epic and other companies that are participating in this new coalition. And apple in this battle over that platform. And those fees, right . Well, i am talking about that, and mike, im also t