Good Tuesday Morning welcome to squawk alley. I am Carl Quintanilla with Morgan Brennan at post nine of the new york stock exchange. Jon fortt joins us from investor day for qualcomm, first one since 2016 a lot from jon throughout the hour, including a sit down with the ceo exclusively in a few moments. We start with tech on a tear, on pace for the best year in a decade, shrugging off mixed earnings concerns. Sectors off another record close. The dow is selling off, down 120. Buyers beware. Some say were set for overbought conditions when it comes to tech. We talk more about this and the market at large. The chairman of Global Internet banking, good to have you back. Thanks for having me. How do you put the run weve seen, especially in things like semis into context whats driving it . It is amazing, nasdaq up 28 , driven by bigger cap companies, apple up over 60 , microsoft up over 40 , facebook up over 40 to add to the point, semis has been a sub sector, up 58 , driving growth other s
Post nine at the New York Stock Exchange Carl Quintanilla is off, jon fortt is on assignment but were going to begin with wework losses balloons to 1. 25 billion in the last quarter. Roger mcnamee joins us, along with Business Inside henry blodget. Good morning roger, i will start with you losses at wework, the turmoil continues. The thing that scarce me about we work, it could be a trigger of other issues in the market it is huge the scale of investing in unicorns that were i think at best unproven, maybe at worst not real businesses is such that as the stuff implodes, it could take softbank with it. Softbank is big enough to trigger all kinds of issues for the market. Youre scaring people saying it could take softbank with it significant losses, no doubt thats a few steps down the road the saudis are 45 billion in, theyre getting 7 deferred return, and then other investors, it is not clearly softbank at risk in the way you if they blow through enough money, it signals a fundamental c
Housing data rebounded with Building Permits at their highest levels in 12 years we are set once again for record time close on the nasdaq anything positive, of course, is a record the s p has just dipped negative the dow has been negative for most of the afternoon. Joining us for the full first hour of the show, steve weiss from short Hill Capital Partners steve, very good to see you. How you doing . Good to see you what stands out as to whether or not were going to issee a meaningful move higher or lower . Its all about trade. Home depots announcement aside, which wasnt terrible wasnt terrible or was terrible was not terrible. And the stocks appropriately are saying, theres lots of people buying it into the earnings. And home depot, lets face it, theyve delivered remarkably over the last decade, particularly since new management came in but i dont think its really a referendum this report on the health of the consumer, which is what the market is based upon. And appropriately, were b
Good morning i am Carl Quintanilla with Morgan Brennan and jon fortt at post nine of the New Yorkstock Exchange were starting with disney in focus as shares surge post earnings Julia Boorstin sat down with bob iger after the call, joins us with more of that important conversation hey, julia reporter well, carl, while disney parks and movie Studio Division continue to outperform, the real focus this quarter is disneys Digital Future with disney plus, the streaming Service Launching tuesday. Without revealing any early subscription numbers for disney plus, bob iger told me he does expect the service to get off to a strong start. It is ready to go i am glad to say we tested it in the netherlands, well talk about that on the call, it was successful. It did not have original content but was well received, not just in terms of number of subscribers but the user reaction to it, very, very and a half navigable, great access to our brands and story telling. He announced new distribution, a deal
Europe is steady powell makes some remarks later on tonight road map begins with megadeal monday lvmh announcing a deal to acquire tiffany. Charles schwab buying ameritrade, 26 about the all stock deal it will combine the companies the two biggest publicly discounted brokers will have more than 5 trillion in client assets ebay set to sell off stub hub for 4 billion david has details on that. Lets start with this Historic Deal in luxury goods lvmh will acquire tiffany. The deal is worth 135 a share, two Companies Expect to complete that deal by mid2020. I assume you can fill us in on what is going to happen to the brand, synergies and all of that. Listen, i mean, it is an important transaction for lvmh, which tried twice before as my understanding and not been able to get there had done it privately. From a m a Strategic Point of view, this went about as well as sort of it had been could have been hoped for from both sides. Seasoned advisers on both sides, who i think i thought they wou