We will bring you fast money trades straight ahead. We start off with a zombie ap k apocalypse on wall street. Many icons are among the walking dead like macys carnival, delta. Nearly 200 companies have joined the zombie rank since march. Total debt obligations nearing 1. 4 trillion dollars a lot of these names are names we talk about trading on this show how should we start thinking about this before we get into the walking dead, i want to point out, a great job by our crack staff leading with the cranberry zombie, and delores was the founder of the zombie. I may have gone with Something Like this if the crack staff is listening. We are now two minutes into the show its important to point this out because folks at home are paying attention apparently more important than actually trading our first topic in what is known as the ablock of the show. Its not more important its important we will talk about ablock and Zombie Companies last night we talked about macys and we talked about the
Good wednesday morning welcome to squawk alley. Im john for the with caro quintanilla and Julia Borstin well start with apple, a cost cut for Small Developers josh lipton breaks down the news for us. Here is how the new program is going to work its called the App Store Small Business Program it launches on january 1st and it does represent a big change here. Developers earning up to 1 million during the Previous Year will now be eligible for a commission of 15 on paid apps and inapp purchases, and that is half of apples Standard Commission apple says the new program will impact what it says is the vast majority of developers selling Digital Goods and services on the store. Tim cook saying in a statement the app store has been an engine of Economic Growth like none other, creating millions of new jobs and a pathway to entrepreneurship accessible to anyone with a great idea for investors this change is also important remember, the app store is critical for apple it accounts for an estima
Comfortably. Hawkish headlines on china and weak Economic Data both weighing on market sentiment. The dow is down 300 points yearly it was down 350 about 20 minutes ago. We have 59 minutes left in the session. Big show coming up four. A true 2020 winner, et ceteray stock is up 250 this year we will talk to the ceo Josh Silverman about the holiday crunch and whether his companys momentum can continue. And arthur blank, cofounder of home tee poe, owns the Atlanta Falcons and atlanta mls team as well lets focus first on the stories we are watching today. Mike santoli is tracking the Market Action into the close meg tirrell has a vaccine update and phil lebeau has an update on nikola, that stock down020 today. Mike santoli first to you and the markets. A mild shake of the tree. Indexes backing off. Some of the stuff that was up the most this month is down the most today seems like a little bit of trimming there are probably unbalanced portfolios there you have we are roughly capped we were
Comptroller of the currency, the Senate Banking Committee Received a 6month update on the state of Banking Systems, the impact of covid19 and support for Small Business owners in communities of color. This runs an hour and 45 minutes. Today we welcome to this virtually hearing the federal prudential regulators, Federal Reserve vice chairman Randal Quaries, office of the comptroller, brian brooks, chairman of yellen and mcwilliams, chairman of the National Credit administration rodney hood. We will receive testimony from each agency on efforts, activities, objectives and plans since we last testified before the committee. As well as an update on covid19 related actions. Since the passage of the coronavirus a relief and Economic Security act or cares act your agencies have taken many meaningful steps to ameliorate the Economic Impact of the pandemic as you provide conditions that will lead to a forceful recovery. On october 30th the Federal Reserve announced changes to its facility inclu
Now, 224 biden, 213 trump. Could be days prosecute we have final vote counts for key battleground states. Maybe were getting a little more clarity on that bottom of our screen right here, nbc news is projecting joe biden wins the state of maine. Want to get that news piece in there as we continue to watch for those votes. Even if biden ekes out a electoral vote, expectations could spell trouble for a democratic agenda, especially if the Vice President ultimately wins the white house for more on the balance of power in congress, lets bring in ylan mui. Good morning. Good morning. Right now its still a tossup for control of the senate. Both parties have a narrow but achievable path to victory Mitch Mcconnell says hes hoping to get more clarity on key races by the end of the day. I dont know whether im going to be the majority leader or minority leader ive been both majoritys better. But were awaiting the judge on the american people. Nbc rates the battle between gop senator thom tillis a