Gap, set to speak again and the fate of a preelection aid package could come by the end of today. And the race for a cure, moderna saying its experimental covid19 vaccine could be ready for emergency use in december. Carl jim, just crossing the wires now, doj has filed the suit against alphabets google, and heard you talking to becky a moment ago, reiterating what you said for a long time, this lawsuit essentially is a strange kind of value creator. Yeah, look, i mean, arguably theyre saying there are ties to exclusionary business deals that google has done. Look, google has opened the books time and again to the government it is not their first rodeo. They have understood this. If theyre trying to break up google, all theyre trying to do is exactly what ive been hoping for, which is that to bring out the value in google, you have to break it up. So if the department of justice is going that route, theyre a great investment banker. I joke with david, there is situations where the sum o
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
Men arguing before congress that the country needs more stimulus money to battle the coronavirus. Wait until you hear who and which industries fed chair Jerome Powell and treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin say need it the most. We will have a live report from d. C. We are 90 minutes away from teslas ceo elon musks big reveal. It comes at his shareholder and battery day event. We have a bull bear debate ready on musks latest brainchild and his argument for the death of the internal combustion engine. Plus the one thing ceos never want to hear. Nelson peltz is on the line, the famed activist investor formerly taking aim at comcast, he thinks the Parent Company of nbc, peacock and universal, is undervalued. We are bringing in former ceo of at t broadband. The cable industry legend weighs in on that, whether sports on cable is dying and his latest spac investment. He was early on the spac train. Is it a National Security threat or just business . The confusion now swirling like a tornado ov
Lets get straight to steve liesman. Jay powell testimony before the House Services committee will note improvement in the economy saying Household Spending has recovered three quarters of the decline and say this is in part response to federal spending and higher Unemployment Benefits which is running down he said housing has rebounded and Business Investment showing signs of improvement but overall employment and Business Activity with well below the prepandemic levels an the out light is uncertain. He makes special mention of the feds main Street Lending program, a 600 billion program with a backstop from the troo z treasury hell be speaking tomorrow before the house financial Services Committee with treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin and this is required testimony about the cares act where they have to quarterly appear before congress and discuss progress with the lending programs. The terminology, highly uncertain, is that different from what the clair has used in the past. This is t
Thats the worst performance in two weeks. The dow has been down. Nasdaq have been down five out of six the tech selloff was worst it continued down 3 led lower by stocks like apple the same old story big volatility coming. Those are really the tail thats been wagging the dog for a while. Youll see the nasdaq is lower once again the other two averages hanging in there the s p on the flat line nasdaq down another 50 points. Fur watching what is happening over the last two months they closed. Dow at the lowest level since the third. The 10year sitting at 0. 66 the story that seems to never end, tiktok. Here we go the owner bytedance applying for an export license in china as it pushes for a deal in oracle and walmart. They did not mention the pending deal and technology it was seeking to support calling the deal dirty and unfair they have no reason to approve it all of this raising questions about that prospect and what that would ultimately look like. What happened earlier in the week we