Good monday morning welcome to squawk squawk im jon fortt with Carl Quintanilla and julia. Were in the final stretch of 2020 were focused on two big ipos, airbnb and doordash. Airbnb is bouncing back strong doordash saw demands surge both of those companies seeing encouraging demand for shares and to define the future of the gig and sharing economies. Leslie picker has the latest on the ipo process. Its important to underscore the rarety of this level of issuance in a single week. Excluding spacs, were expecting to see more than 7 billion worth of ipos this week. Since the start of 2014, only three other weeks have surpassed that kind of volume. Most recently, in mid september there was, if you remember, there was a big week of software debuts unity, jay frog went public. The only week thats saw greater issuance was in may of 2019 when uber went public and then september 2014 when alibaba went public what is different this time, though, is that the billions of dollars in new stock is c
You. Well get to the commute with mike. Take a look at the air quality laura was just mentioning, certainly a big concern for a lot of people still, kari. We are going to see the smoke come in today. Unhealthy air quality in the north bay where weve seen all of that smoke still being pushed down as fires continue to burn and so were going to have a lot for today and unhealthy for your time outside. Its also going to be hot again today with our coastal temperatures in the upper 60s. Our valley temperatures in the upper 90s. Well get a closer look at this as well as the rest of the forecast. How is it looking for the commute . Pretty good, kari. We had that construction cleared from oakland. Lets take a look at your maps and we have no real surprises or changes since the last couple of minutes. Still a little slow out of the altamont pass. There is a crash reported heading north through hayward on the nimitz just past 80 street. There may be partial onelane blocked. Maybe your slow lane.
Moderately above 2 inflation, moderately is what it says in the statement but does not define exactly what moderately means. There are two centers to this action, Robert Kaplan wants to see the statement to the way it was pretty wants to statement to read the economy or stance will remain the same until the economy has weathered the storm and the economic storm we have here. Well cash on the other side dissented because he wants more dovish language in this. On implement rates, statistics are very interesting here. They have reduced now the planet rates rates and estimation of this year to 7. 6 by the end of 2020 grid that is down from 9. 3 from their june projection and then also 5. 5 from on a plummet rates in 2021, 4. 6 and 2022 and 4 in 2023. The real gdp prediction cut in half for the losses they are paired they are now saying its a loss of 3. 7 at the end of this year with a bounce back of 4 next year. The inflation, fed estimates that pce inflation is 1. 2 this year up from 1. 7
Screen is driven by not the feds comments, a little boring with the zoom box or retail sales that we got or housing numbers. But what is happening at the mornings Research Meetings all over the country today where the down gained 37 points and the s p dipped and the nasdaq lost 1. 25 . More on that later today seemed like it was dominated by the fed in the amazing snow flake ipo and as someone that helped bring the microsoft ipo to goldman sachs, i know a big deal when i see one. More on the demons the deal unleashed. We had a nice rally going today and thats about what is going on behind the scenes every morning they have a meeting where they pitch the sales force on individual stocks and entire industries as buys or holds or very rarely sells after the pandemic got rolling, almost every piece of research that came out cut numbers. For individual companies and suggested the situation would get worse. The conclusion ive never seen so many sell eric men dae eric men dae er recommendatio