List, quote, this decision has nothing to do with our view of the representable conduct of the houthis and the kidnapping of american citizens. Removing them from the terror list because that would somehow improve humanitarian consequences of a terrorist designation. How does this link to iran . We will investigate and is Breaking News on the Iran Nuclear Program as well. The Lincoln Project loses another cofounder, Jennifer Warren is leaving because of the grotesque and inappropriate behavior, her words, of cofounder jeff weaver. The project responds is actually leaving because he wouldnt pay for more money and give her a tv show. By the way republicans are pushing the congressional sergeant at arms to find nancy pelosi. Apparently say; 509 am at february 2nd she didnt fully clear the new Metal Detectors as some republicans are facing 5,000 fines themselves for skipping that same security measure. Kevin cork kicks us off with a 17 of the Biden Administration. This is a real storyline
Welcome to squawk alley. The at Home Technology story continues to deliver big you can see there sonos up 26 this morning after strong earnings want to talk to the ceo in a minute and nvidia also delivered solid results on pc and Data Center Demand beating on both earnings and revenue. Sales up 57 from the same period last year though its lower this morning on modest guidance second biggest gainer on the s p 500 year to date though. Julia, its really interesting how, you know, stay at home stocks maybe suffering a bit but some of the Underlying Technology driving some of that action doing quite well well, jon, one stay at home stock that is not suffering today is roku. That stock up over 6 . Driven in part by the circulation of reports saying that roku could be near a deal with at t to have an agreement for hbo max to be included on roku which would be a big deal and speaking of hbo max, i have to mention that news that wonder woman 1984, the big wonder woman sequel that was scheduled
Work and no relief in sight. Speaking of relief, the top democrat in the Senate Chuck Schumer has republican Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell agreed the rekindle talks about a stimulus package the senate is on recess through next week. We will speak with Colorado Governor Jared Polis who just moved 15 counties including denver into level red restrictions he is also part of a group of governors speaking with president elect biden this weekend. Plus we will talk with the ceo of the National Association of manufacturers who is working with bidens team to help fight the pandemic today we have with us mike santoli, steer liesman mike, the broader markets are well off the lows as we speak. They are. Kind of a little bit of an aimless back and forth type day. Absorbed a little bit of a morning selloff. Didnt do any real damage it has been firmly bid, especially with son of the bigger nasdaq stocks coming back. Holding the indexes together relatively well. As we speak, the s p around 3,580. Tha
Im on Francine Lacqua. Weve had quite interesting and big political news in the u. S. That started late last night, overnight and first we know that transition is more on its way than was 24 hours ago. Global stocks advancing on the back of that. If you look at what stock markets are taking a positive, the general source of administration acknowledged joe biden was the apparent winner of the election and the move reduced Political Uncertainty in the u. S. , giving biden access to Current Agency officials, briefing books, 6 million in funding and the market. Energy stocks leading the stoxx 600. Travel companies. Banks also notching gains. Haven assets weaker. We are getting some eco figures. Looking forward to speaking to the president of the Ifo Institute shortly. The estimater than of 87. 5. Ifo coming up in 15 minutes. Here is leighann gerrans. Englands National Lockdown ends next week but Prime Minister Boris Johnson says it will be replaced by a tougher threetier system of regional
Stimulus deal9 and the promise of a covid vaccine. Cloud computing giant salesforce has agreed e to buy slack in a 27 billion deal. Slacks instant messaging system will position salesforce to compete with microsoft. Warner brothers announced it will release its 2021 films on hbo max at the same time they debut in theaters. On the round table, ben levisohn, carlton english and jack howe. Ben, we got pretty weak jobs numbers today, but the market shrugged it off, and everything ended up higher. Thats right, jack, everything went higher. It doesnt matter if you were maul cap or large cap, the techheavy nasdaq or the Dow Jones Industrial average, the market just went higher. That comes down to stimulus. Congress is talking again, democrats and republicans are trying to come to a deal, this is a number out there, and it looks like it could get done. If it does, it makes up for the data. Payroll number missed expectations, but people were expecting a weak number, and the weakness is really i