Gap, set to speak again and the fate of a preelection aid package could come by the end of today. And the race for a cure, moderna saying its experimental covid19 vaccine could be ready for emergency use in december. Carl jim, just crossing the wires now, doj has filed the suit against alphabets google, and heard you talking to becky a moment ago, reiterating what you said for a long time, this lawsuit essentially is a strange kind of value creator. Yeah, look, i mean, arguably theyre saying there are ties to exclusionary business deals that google has done. Look, google has opened the books time and again to the government it is not their first rodeo. They have understood this. If theyre trying to break up google, all theyre trying to do is exactly what ive been hoping for, which is that to bring out the value in google, you have to break it up. So if the department of justice is going that route, theyre a great investment banker. I joke with david, there is situations where the sum o
Moves its way to the northeast, live to the gulf this morning. Markets this morning trading up, take a look at futures, wild week with triple digit gains for the dow industrials in record territory. Nasdaq up right now is lower but the s p 500 scored a fifth Straight Record high close yesterday and continues higher this morning up another 11 points. Airlines getting turbulence, United Airlines warning 3,000 pilots could be grounded by october. Mornings with maria live right now. Global markets are mixed, take a look at european indices. The cac quarante is up 3 points but the dax index in germany is lower by 17, in asian markets big news, japanese Prime Minister shinzo abe announcing hes resigning. He announced resignation overnight and the news weighing on japans stock. The nikkei average down 1 and a half percent over night. Some of the top stories that we are watching this morning. President trump wrapping up the rnc last night officially accepting the gop nomination for president m
How apples shakeup is driving the blue chips plus the online surge, best buy notching is 242 gain in ecommerce sales in the Second Quarter but can it last . Trade optimism, u. S. And china officials reaffirming their phase one commitment, the s p is poised to add to its record run. Jim, i saw you last night mentioning those changes to the dow and your general point was dont be fooled in thinking there is as much money indexed to the dow as to the s p. We said that last night, its been the theme all morning and theres been no sellers. One of the reasons theres been no sellers are the people who are now trading stocks in early hours have tremendous conviction in the face of being wrong its rather incredible because the hubris of these people they must think dow jones has a lot of money to it and it has to come out of exxon and into salesforce david, you have been at the forefront of the network in explaining the nature of the dow and you see this, too. Arent you shocked that even after w
Good Tuesday Morning welcome to squawk alley. Were with you for the hour, what a fascinating market day, john walmart and home depot tickiki things off then for awhile there a bit of a tumble the dow briefly at its biggest loss plenty of dynamics to watch as we watch the retail earnings and the progress on stimulus big stocks and big tech in particular apple is fractionally higher amazon perhaps riding that retail news overall. Up better than 2. 5 . Alphabet up about a percent. Microsoft lower, and then there is oracle. In the news because of this tiktok bid, perhaps, carl. I dont know if there is anyone not bidding for tiktok lets start off with exactly that as a source tells cnbc that oracle has entered the race to buy tiktoks u. S. Operations. Walt, you know what my first take was on this microsoft was telling this story about their focus on the enterprise now theyre bidding for tiktok and oracle, how does it facility them at all . Does everyone just have to have a look microsoft ba
Squawk alley. Were going to begin this morning with literally an epic battle royal they are claiming anticompetitive behavior after launching a new way to buy accessories giving users a discount but cutting out the app store in the process this, of course, violates the terms of both app stores that take a 30 cut of digital sales. They both removed fortnite as a result epic games responded with lawsuits and a parody of apples famous 1984 ad platform unification directives for years they have given us their sums, their labor, their dreams in exchange we have taken now a tribute out of it, out of our control. This power is ours and ours alone. We shall prevail see what they did there . Lets bring in alex. You have get with the app stores for a long time and you continue to what side of this do you come down on . I am now the little guy so i have to be careful with what i say, but i like the odd of challenging apple and google and getting them to reduce the tax they charge all of the devel