Welcome to closing bell, everyone im wilfred frost along leslie picket in for sara isen today. Nasdaq holding on to some gains ahead of the holiday tomorrow. Pain in the labor market as new Employment Data underlines how tenuous the economy is nasdaq higher, growth out performed value. Energy under some pressure for a change after a huge surge in november and weve seen strong numbers from Corporate America mastercard said spending remains steady gap the counterpoint that stock is down 20 today alone. 59 minutes and oneday holiday coming up, of course, tomorrow the dow is down 0. 6 . Coming up on todays show, Website Security Company Cloud flair shares are up. Well speak to the ceo plus, riding with unicorns well talk to Founders Fund keith rabois Steve Liesman has a look at todays economic data. Mike santoli is tracking the market action. Deir deirdre bowsa has details. Steve, start us off with the economy. A busy day today. Yeah. The Federal Reserve earlier this month at its meeting d
Stimulus watch and of course, palantir, we are awaiting the opening trade set to begin really at any moment. Alex karp, the ceo will join us right here on cnbc immediately following the first trade, jon as we said, its been a long road a lot of filings. A lot to read about the company, voting structure, privacy, you name it. And the Business Model at large. Yeah. And its another big, big ipo but very different from snow flake, which we saw which has a ton of customers, large and small and kind of this very broad play on data in the cloud. This is a company thats dealing with big data and has just a few really huge customers, carl. And thats where well start this morning, jon. Josh lipton has more on what to expect once the first trade happens. Hey, josh. Carl, a master of creativity. That is how Ceo Alex Karp describes his company, palantir. A data miner, its software ahows customers to integrate volumes of data into a central platform where it can then be securely analyzed and interpr
Employees are walking off the job after the ceo barred political activism at work. We will have a live report. Venture a longtime capitalist who just took his company opendoor public dont just for look at public and private markets amidst a pandemic and an election. First, stocks climbing on speculation a stimulus plan will get done. Doolittle, walk us through the Market Action today. Abigail something a bit new today, thats the fact that markets were relatively calm, although the word relatively is important. We did have a bullish ending for stocks, the s p 500 finishing at its best level since early september, and for the most part stocks were higher all day. There was one little wobble late in the morning here on the east coast when speaker of the house nancy pelosi said she wont accept a skinny deal on the airline stimulus are bailout for the airlines unless it is colluded included in a bigger deal. Action withe more the dow transport, another. 8 percent. About then that headline c
Few sessions for tech stocks losing over a trillion dollars in value in just the last three days josh lipton is sorting through the carnage and has more josh thats right, jon bigtech names suffering big losses take another look here at apple, minhaj, amazon, alphabet, facebook and tesla just to put the plunge into perspective. The last three days essentially wiping out three weeks of gains. At the start of this year, these Six Companies were worth about 5 trillion. Their value then peaked at 8 trillion just last week. Now they lost about 1 trillion sounds like a lot, but also keep in mind, the remarkable runs these stocks have had. For example, apple is trading about 15 off its alltime high. Still up, though, about 60 so far this year. Same goes with amazon. Down about 6 so far this month, but the stock is still up more than 70 so far in 2020. Also, check out the smh, the etf that tracks the chips bouncing here this morning. Trading about 10 off its most recent high. Sector surge on th
New year on january 25th and with more we bring in lauren fix the car coach so lauren we come into year and these are some very Ambitious Goals that set for themselves and in the past houses performance didnt really give us any confidence and analysts now dont have any confidence in their execution for 2020 they predict that the shanghai factory probably wont be able to make model threes in high volumes many a 1000 cars per week until mid 2020 so what do you think. I agree with ed i know initially theyre going to be delivering 15 cars by the end of the years we can say that he delivered cars in 2019 thats more of a publicity stunt than anything else but in reality initially must consider going to produce 3000 cars a week which is not possible and its not fully automated like he had stated they still need manpower which is really good because that means jobs but i think were not going to be talking about a 1000 units a week until youre right about the middle of the year we also have to