Lavongo on their merger and the first companys earnings report. David has news on microsoft and tiktok. Want to continue to update a story were following closely given we have not seen anything like it. Tiktok the incredibly popular social media app in the u. S. And around the world, bytedance its owner, the u. S. Government saying we will shut tiktok down in the u. S. Unless you find a way to transfer all of it to u. S. Ownership and microsoft playing the role as potentially the only suitor for the business i wanted to bring everybody up to date on new reporting that ive got because it is interesting. Both sides right now, bytedance and microsoft and of course the u. S. Government is still very much involved in this as well are negotiating to try to reach some sort of an agreement under which microsoft would buy the u. S. Business of texas toks u. S. Bit from bytedance within the next two to three weeks. That seems to be what theyre hoping for in terms of a timeline obviously in these
Me jimcramer. You have a pessimist you have the camp that believes the latest covid outbreak is no big deal because the mortality rate is lower and then the super pessimist that say spiking cases mean no sports, no going out and millions of job losses these four camps, i have to tell you, they are going to they are at war every single day. Including this one, the dow gained 557 points, s p advanced 1. 34 and nasdaq inched up 4. 9 one can win because there is so much money going into stocks the recovery plays dont go up as Fund Managers need to sell one group to swap into another and thats why the dow stocks did much better than the s p that did better than the one scorching nasdaq this is highly unusual but it makes sense if you think out market in terms of competing camps. So who is winning . Or who won today i like to use the sore thumb index as in which stocks stuck out like a sore thumb today . Let me give you todays examples first tell is mccormick. The big spice maker roared to a
Ten year is yielding around 0. 65 . Yeah, 0. 648 30year is at 1. 383 andrew thanks, becky nice to see you. Meantime, civil Rights Groups involved in that meeting with facebook which we previewed for you yesterday right here on squawk, well, the companys platforms, they are calling that sitdown meeting disappointing. They say they were unable to get commitments from Company Leaders on how they plan to combat hate speech and misinformation on the site facebook spokesperson said this was an opportunity for the company to reaffirm the commitment to combatting hate on the services well talk a lot more about this later with somebody who was on that phone call. I dont know if it was a phone call or a zoom. They dont do zoom, guys. They didnt i thought it was a zoom . Facebook now has their own. They do they have their own platform now. I dont know if you are going to meet with well, ive had meetings on facebook they often use blue jeans. I thought it said zoom but it might have been used sayi
Without some sellers coming out of the woodwork which is why the dow shed now tepid nasdaq lost 3. 4 twee have to use this moment to regroup and figure out the markets. I think todays action was pure profit taking. But the sellers had a lot of excuses. I any its worth going over them in detail. Its forearmed rail recovery thesis really moderating. It might be right. Its certainly a possibility if you dont get stimulus. Second, the reopening has clearly been stalled by the outbreaks. Its trying to get the mortality rate substantially lower than the original outbreak in new york some of that is because weve gotten better treating covid as we learn more about it, it is novel if you were on a vent lator in new york, you only had a 20 chance of surviving. Youre now at 70 . You have a host of treatments you didnt have before steroids, remdesivir, blood plasma i dont want to doubt it even if more people survive, complications are horrifying nobody wants to spend weeks in the hospital nobody w
Its season in orlando despite record coronavirus outbreaks in that state power lunch starts right now thanks the banks and the energy are out performing today as tech takes a breather the nasdaq still up 5 in two weeks. Bob has more on todays market were at the highs for the day. Were close to a bit of a break out. Mondays close, which was the high was 31. 79 were five or six points away from that. Why would it be significant if we get over that thats highest level since the june highs we had. Were looking for a modest little break its a good way the close the week out if we can do that banks are out performing havent heard that in a long time, have you its not going to reverse the down trend for the banks but its nice to see a bit of out performance today. Citigroup, jpmorgan and wells fargo reporting on tuesday its not going to reverse the trends thats good reason for the bank woes out there weve been talking about them a lot in the last couple of weeks. We had capital conconstraints