And your comments a moment ago to andrew, just sort of crystallize, not just what a job shes done, but how companies are placing their bets on looking through cycles, even though were a week away from an election and in the middle of a pandemic. You have somebody the quality of lease why isa su, best ceo i country, nonpromotional, re competitive thought this was maxed out. Youre in the personal computer and data center, it is not good enough she saw what happened to intel i dont say that with any prejudice. Just that she left intel behind. She is in the data center, who is she who are her clients . Azure, google, and, of course, amazon but it is time she feels it is time to branch out into auto, time to branch out into defense into telco when you look at xilinx, what youre seeing is a mosaic where there is some overlap in data center, but the rest is an attempt to say, you know what, we need a bigger total Addressable Market we have to outgrow our markets right now. And i think it is a
I dont know if its so much will these reports be good i think the question is how good do they have to be well, theyre going to probably have to be extraordinarily good we saw what happened with microsoft already. The numbers were great across the board for the most part. The stock went lower and continued to go lower after they gave the guidance that they gave i think thats part of the elements of what were going to be looking at today, scott, is not only the earnings but what does the guidance look like for many of these Different Companies were talking about, the power four or five when you really look at whats going on there, its still about apple one and the bundling package, i think thats huge it goes back to the idea that this was once a Hardware Company that was mass, rigive and the hardware component was huge. Thats been a good thing because the reliance on that aspect of apple, it stis still there but less youve got wearables and services and all these different areas where a
Google all on tap. All that and much more is coming up this hour power lunch starts right now kelly, thanks im scott wapner welcome to power lunch our reporters are all over every ae angle that matters as you know, today the busiest day of earning season. Meg tirel is watching the race for a vaccine as coronavirus cases continue to climb. And Steve Liesman has the details of a muchexpected gdt report hey, bob before we get to earnings, were having a nicely midday rally here let me show you the s p. Some technical aspects we broke above the earlier highs in the day. People do trade on technical calls on in kind of market you see that nice, quick, steady move up here there may be seasonal aspects coming into play, art cashin noting were moving into november, a seasonably strong period of the year for earnings, the early reports have just been spectacular here, generally half of the s p reporting now, 85 beating expectations and the key story is the average beat about 19 , way above the h
Heavily political negotiation we said we cannot tell what is going to happen. The market seems to believe there will be some kind of stimulus, the dow up this morning up 150 and nasdaq of 171. Plenty of green on expectation of a stimulus deal. As for the white house, doctor sean conley says the president has responded extremely well to treatment. And expects him to return to public engagement, mr. Trump is going to do just that, hes going to florida for a rally tomorrow. Speaker pelosi questioning the president s fitness for office, she intends to bring up the 25th amendment to the constitution which is about the presidencapacity to function. On the one hand they negotiating training in dollar stimulus plan and on the other the speaker questions mr. Trumps ability to run the country. To the debates, more confusion. Mr. Trump will not participate if its virtual, joe biden says he will be there anyway. But he has scheduled a town hall with abc on debate day, october 15 and a raging debat
Else, stimulus optimism. Pelosi and mnuchin are set to speak again. Airline stocks are up. Plus the race for a cure and treatment for the coronavirus. Shares of regeneron and eli lilly are rallying, both asking the fda for emergency use approval for their antibody therapies. And speaking of surging, look at shares of ibm this morning, moving up on plans to spin off its it infrastructure unit Arvind Krishna and Ginni Rometty will both join us first to discuss this historic move for the company. Carl we are awash in headlines from the president after this 55minute interview. But buried in there are discussions about the progress of stimulus talks and emergency approval for the likes of lilly and regeneron. Look, i think that there is a narrative that were going to start hearing and it was the president s narrative, he voiced it, i know if youre george ancopolous, you dont want to hear it is a cure. You want to hear it is something that is part of a cocktail of things that you need to be