Some traction. Right right. Well, look, i think that the charges that leader mccarthy made which basically are saying that Speaker Pelosi just doesnt want to deal actually are in somewhat synch with what Jared Kushner was saying because that maybe there cant be a deal until after the election how about the next three months . We just decide theres been no ppp for september, october, november, i dont know whether thats sacrificing the american working person for the election or maybe someone actually thinks the economy is coming back david, you know that we are hearing persistent stories that because vaccines are all going to be ready its time to start thinking about a fedex which reports tonight, its time to start thinking about a Union Pacific i have on and time to start thinking about pretty much every industrial like caterpillar, deere its happening although lets i mean, vaccines you know, i dont even know how to parse that exactly, jim vaccines being ready when we actually talk to
Merely dealing with partisan gridlock the dow inched up two points and the nasdaq jumped 1. 12 , this i what we have to think about. Six months ago it looked like the world was ending everyone in congress had a reason to reach a compromise both sides have an incentive to be more stubborn they get to blame each other in the runup to an election but as Speaker Pelosi told me this morning, the deal is still on the table. I took her full statement as a sign getting a deal done could be extremely difficult im saying this purely in micah pasty as your investing coach without a stimulus deal, there will be a ton of private company losers and could be a much worse place a year from now if we get a vaccine by the end of the year too many struggling Small Businesses cant wait that long. Now if you got a white collar job you can do from home you may not realize how bad it can be. The future is fine for anyone that can work from home whether we get another bailout or not. For millions of americans
Together. If you think the increased interest in europe over the last six weeks of so is off the back of the e. U. Recovery fund. Details are pretty good. It means to us that europe is maturing. It is looking a lot more sophisticated. To us, this is something that can run a little further. The market is getting ahead of itself. People are saying this would d to more this is because of the pandemic. Are we going to be back to square one . Or is this Real Progress . I would say it is a little bit of both. Ultimately, this is the first up towards all the things we have been asking that was put into construction mode. Think there is a fundamental improvement. Terms of the long term in terms of a longterm, we still there were still a lot of focus on the old economy sectors, which means it is likely to struggle for a while and you have to remember demographics. The ecb looks more credible than it did a year ago. Plus, as you said, europe is managing the pandemic pretty well. By the time bein
The companys intelligent cloud bids that including azure, windows, posted 13. 4 billion in revenue. That beats consensus by a bit. Azure slowing up a bit. Ceo had a question about that and the companys growth on last nights call asked whether or not he is concerned about it my own approach to this would be not to worry as much about shortterm whether or not it is the growth number, im not trying to match an artificial number i think the world will come out of this and it will be stronger when we invest in this space. An ad spending slow down, and they closed that acquisition four years ago right now the Gaming Business had record engagement. People stayed home and they played they call itd a breakthrough quarter for gaming, guys yeah, xbox and surface two were nice surprises. The other big earnings move in tech is twitter. Lets get to Julia Boorstin on that yeah, twitter grew, growing their monetizing value from the year earlier quarter the addition of 20 far exceeded expectations and
Southwest, at t, dow and Union Pacific this morning, jim, the hard thing today, jim, is going to know where to start. Yeah, i mean, look, i think last night the news flow was, as you said yesterday, heavily weighted toward microsoft which people regarded as disappointment i think that disappointment is not having the greatest quarter in the world, lets just say that today i think that the focus is whats going to happen when these benefits end and which companies are going to be able to continue to deliver the numbers. For instance, chipotle had a great number, will that be impacted whirlpool had a great number last night will that be impact snd what are we going to see with southwest air we had a fantastic interview with american and then secretary mnuchin i felt once again sounds like theres some room to get a deal done. We need a deal or else were going to find ourselves with a consumer who is too strapped and i think that thats what im looking at for next week and then of course im