Public. Deciding that the scrutiny directed toward him had become too much of a distraction. The resiliency of facebook, despite the backlash over big tech. I get that. Im not the ideal messenger for this right now. We have work to do to build trust. What does the future hold as we head into 2020 . A special edition of Halftime Report in San Francisco, begins right now. And we welcome you to 1 market we have a great lineup today were going to be joined exclusively in a little while by snowflake chairman and ceo Frank Slootman as he prepares to take the Company Public in the year ahead. Frederick kerrest, the cofounder of okta, that stock up more than 90 this year were joined by Brad Gerstner who helped us take stock of whats happening in the valley throughout the year. Deirdre bosa is with us, covered the ipo and Venture Capital markets closely as anybody its great to have both of you here so brad, interesting year to say the least. Uber, lyft, they go public wework blows up. What do y
Where i was over the weekend among the headlines and there were a lot, a warning about potential risk for the u. S. If Tech Companies decide not to do business with the pentagon. My view is if big tech is going to turn their backs on department of defense, this country is in trouble. That just cant happen so we have to, it is up to the Senior Leadership to say i understand these are emotional issues, we dont have to agree on everything, but this is how were going to do it we are going to support the department of defense. This country is important. Meantime, heavily redacted 103 page document that was just made public a short while ago, amazon says President Trump launched, behind the scenes attacks against the company, which led to it losing out on the major jedi contract for Cloud Services that we have been covering so closely. Guys, in general the bottom line from jeff bezos at the event this weekend is amazon, you could make the argument origin, the Space Company looking for Nation
Limits on u. S. Portfolio flows into china by delisting companies here in the u. S. The nasdaq is down by more than a percent. Take a look at the chinese stocks alibaba sitting at session lows down by five and a quarter percent. Eamon has been following this story and joins us reporter my understanding is those reports that cross earlier today got the markets attention are accurate the white house is considering measures that would limit port po folio flows from the United States into the Chinese Companies but and theres a big caveat here. Its a lot of different ideas on the table. Its not clear when a decision would be made or what that decision would look like or what the mechanics of this would be how could this play out in theres one option already out there thats been under discussion thats a proposal for a number of senators. You see them here including senator marco rubio of florida called the equitiable act. What that would do if passed is allow u. S. Regulators to have access
Decision. Bullard should have called for 75 basis points and he could have the job when powell steps down to spend more time with his calculations. I agree completely with bullard, his dissent on 50. Whats he thinking . Then i read his comments and said thats pretty smart it made total sense to me. On the bullard side, this gives you a sense of why its so reasonable i would be watching very carefully for any signs of a downturn. Of course, there are views on the other side as well, from the other dissenters i think the center of gravity, clearly the center of gravity on the committee is the second adjustment was appropriate. Thats right. Fed president jim bullard joins us here in just a moment josh got a cameo in that little mashup. Lucky you didnt wear the same tie. Some of my best work. Yeah, you have to give me the heads up on that. Building throughout the day, hopes of the trade deal, really good housing data. Yeah. What are you chalking it up to lets do housing first. Xhp, itb, ho
Decoupling markets in asia and europe were slightly weaker but here in the u. S. Were in the green. Treasury yields at this hour as well, we have seen some better than expected german labor data cause some firming in the global bond markets right now the 30 year is just sitting at a 2. 15 yield the tenyear, 169 and the twoyear at 164. That story that really dragged our markets on friday. We finished off the lows on friday any way only down half of 1 on the s p 500 by the close, but clearly if that story is turning around, its unsurprising to see futures up a little bit this morning. Broader market was down 1 last year. The u. S. China trade fight continues to dominate the Global Market headlines friday, stocks dropped amid the report that u. S. Would limit eunice yoon with the latest. Hey, eunice. Hey, guys if its true that the u. S. Officials are clarifying that the Trump Administration is not going to be imposing any restrictions on u. S. Investments into u. S. Companies that would d