Good morning, it is midnight in beijing its 11 00 a. M. On wall street and squawk alley is live. Good friday morning welcome to squawk alley. Im jon fortt with carl quintanilla. Its the end of cloud week on squawk alley. What a week its been. They have brought news on custom chips, Machine Learning and more sales force announced plans to buy slack for nearly 28 billion in the second largest Software Deal ever. Weve had ibm and microsoft weigh in snowflake and others have turned in blah earnings well hear from the ceo this hour what does it mean for investors already sky high investor malic noijoins us now i cant believe we never had you on squawk alley before i hope this is a trend i want to start with sales force slack. I know that you have known stu butterfield for a long time, even before flicker was a hit. You think this very expensive deal makes sense why . So lets remove the price out of the equation. I think what youre looking at right now is in 2020, we have gone from the idea
When it begins lets elook at what is driving the numbers today. Millions of americans remain out of work. Could that weakness pressure lawmakers to reach a stimulus deal we will see. Negotiations are under way as we speak. The dow up some 200 points or so two thirds of a percentage with 59 minutes left in the trading week kayla. Wilf, it is great to see you on this friday afternoon coming up on the show, door dash and airbnb ipos to come next week and a big test for appetite of some names in growth tech speaking of high growth, scott cutler, we will get his take on the e competition in apparel and sneakers mike santoli has the market covered. Ylan moi is tracking the latest movements on a stimulus deal and we will dig about sboo the jobs report with Dana Peterson. Mike first to you. What are you seeing behind the charts. Almost all news translated to good news for the market in this current mood that investors are in if you look at a fiveyear chart. Decided to broaden it out here more
Reductions in retail and wholesale trade. Most districts continue to report trouble finding advocates. They span most industries and skill levels wage pressure was strongest for low skilled position one provider of Business Security services in seattle reported labor costs are the highest in the companys history. And in chicago, there were multiple reports of Companies Big back retired workers to build a gap. Most districts supporteds moderately slower spending dallas did note stores near the Mexican Border continued to be challenged Consumer Spending was mixed with weakness in retail, and prices rose modestly, with retailer reporting higher costs due to tariffs. Sales expectations were optimistic for the Holiday Season in the boston district. One retailer reported that import duties on some european luxury goods were going way up this is the last phase of the report for 2019 so sorry thank you so much diana olick reporting from washington Steve Liesman is alongside us now. Zbrl i thin
Component earnings joining us for the hour is stephanie link great to have you here i think thats exactly where we should start we had earnings from walmart and cisco. Cisco is the drag on the dow how would you characterize how it reflects back to the Broader Market last quarter the same thing happened where cisco disappointed and walmart posted a better than expected number. This is what this economy swhat this market is enterprise spend is weak on trade concerns and uncertainty and thats not Getting Better any time soon versus the consumer being very strong those numbers are very impressive 6. 6 stack comp for walmart. It actually kratd. Ecommerce sales 41 . Estimates are going up for walmart and going down for cisco and i dont think theres a lot of visibility at cisco even if you listen to that Conference Call they were disappointing across the board. You got to pick your spots of where you want to be well dive deeper into each of those Companies Reports ahead. Stephanie will be wit