A discussion with the brookings institution. Topics included operations in afghanistan, military readiness and the importance of emerging defense technologies. This is one hour. John ladies and gentlemen, good morning. It is a sincere pleasure for me to welcome our featured and honored guests today. The chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general mark a. Milley, United States army. Since becoming the 20th chairman of the joint chiefs in 2019, general milley has worked to realize the u. S National Defense strategy, which prioritizes competition with china and russia in American Defense planning. Chairman milley has worked tirelessly with civilian and uniformed leadership towards developing the u. S. Armed forces into a truly modern armed force capable of deterring and heading off the threats of all types that we may be facing today, including those emanating from nearpeer competitors that have now really pronounced once again the idea of Great Power Competition. He simultaneously kep
Isolating after coming into contact with lawmakers are tested positive for coronavirus. Good morning and welcome to bloomberg surveillance. This is a picture of the markets. A lot of the focus is on a number of infected. A lot of the focus is on the policymakers can do Going Forward. Onot of the focus will be some of the things we saw for example following asian shares. Buoyed by positive sentiment on trade. In thanar is falling the other thing im looking at is oil pushing higher. Treasuries edging up. The focus is on the sustainability of the economic recovery. Hoping for are also news on more vaccines coming up that could be positive after what we heard from pfizer. Now lets get straight to bloomberg first word news in london. Trump is still refusing to concede the election. The president tweeted the joe biden one because the election was rigged to. A claim flagged by twitter. Commentswalked back to saying i can see nothing. We have a long way to go. The u. K. Prime minister Boris Jo
Good thursday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Im jon fortt with carl quintanilla. It is cloud week on squawk alley. If you were betting against snowflake, wur oyoure out in t cold this morning. That stock up is 12 same for Cloud Security and authentication specialist okta were going to talk to the ceo to see if this thing may stabilize from here or go higher splunk, that is the sound of a cloud stock dropping 22 after missing Sales Guidance for the third quarterer in quarter in a row. All this happening as amazons cloud conference is in full swing. Salesforce announced the second Biggest Software acquisition ever and we started the week on squawk alley talking to ibm president Jim Whitehurst who came to big blue in what and is still thelargest Software Acquisition ever redhat driven by a hybrid cloud. Julia, investors are betting on further growth from already heady levels we can certainly see that in what is happening with snowflake this morning it is reapproaching the highs that so
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19,000, but is the best still yet to come . Proceed with caution. Soundingone analyst alarms over sky valuations. Lets get to those evaluations. We start back with all u. S. Markets. Big day on wall street. The dow topic 30,000 for the first time. The s p 500 index also jumping to a record. Russell 2000 also. Abigail this reopening reflation trade back on, bringing record highs and big round numbers. Lots of euphoria over the market looking toward the second half of next year. It was like and everything rally for different stocks. Tonically, the only index sit out was the biotech index, theuse ironically it is vaccine and medicine people are so excited for smallcap banks up 5. 3 . Yesterday, apple was kind of precarious. Technically crossing some downside levels, but not so much today. Relative to the real reopening, some cruise lines, airlines sharply higher on hopes that once the vaccine gets circulated into the world, people will be traveling again and also gambling at the resorts.