Good tuesday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt and Julia Boorstin on this election day markets are continuing the rally we got on monday were close to session highs right now. Dow is up 665. Best day since june 5th for the dow and s p 500. Best breadth since april 8th nasdaq and s p 500 erased their october loss, jon, as were seeing things like yields go higher as well and the dollar weaken which is another sign that some of the imbedding on emerging markets going out of this election. Yeah, carl. Looking at tech overall and particularly big tech, its interesting the gap between microsoft and amazon lagging behind apple, thats narrowing a bit. Remember, you had apple above 2 trillion in market cap and around 1. 5 trillion now thats come down apple is below 2 trillion those two are still around 1. 5 alphabet lagging all of those year to date so what is surging today tesla is up 5. 5 sales force, cisco, micron, dell, if you look at enterprise space, tho
They are weighing new investigations. A record turnout in hong kong as prodemocracy looks set for big gains. It is the first opportunity for hong kongers to vote after months and months of violent protests. Paul lets get you across some breaking news on the bloomberg terminal. Carl icahn is said to seek control of occidentals board. He plans to nominate 10 directors in an attempt to seize control of the u. S. Oil and gas producer. This is according to people familiar with the matter. Is said to be looking to seek control of occidentals board. We will bring you more details on that as we get them. For now, trading has begun here in australia. Lets take a look at how we are tracking. Currently higher by just over. 1 . We have a staggered open here in australia. Stocks coming online in alphabetical order. We are currently in the as. The one we are really looking forward to is westpac in the ws. This packet slipping about 7 in the last week on the back of this Money Laundering scandal. 4 o
Let me introduce the two reporters asking questions. Dave is the National Political correspondent for the washington post. Thanks to both of you for being back again this week. Dave, you are up first. Dave starting higher up the ballot, im sure youve interacted with a lot of donors that worried that the woman cannot win the presidency after 2016. Have you detected any shifts and that over the past couple weeks or since the debate . We cant walk away from the president ial race. I always tell folks that is part of our culture. Its a part of pop culture and everybodys focus. And i will say that, particularly since the debate, i think that debate on both nights, Elizabeth Warren in her strong showing on the first night and Kamala Harris did a phenomenal job on the second night, put aside a lot of the fears of whether or not a woman could beat donald trump. There were president ial, strong, they had good ideas. They were able to talk about the things. I will fully admit there have been ple
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