And the deal is worth over 44 billion in stock it combines two of the largest providers to wall street and so far 2020s largest dollar wise deal plus, youve seen it on squawk box gm and nikola announce a smaller deal on fuel cell systems doesnt involve equity and well get to more of it why those shares are down so sharply by the way, jim, great to have you back. A lot to catch up on that we missed talking with you about over the last few days as for moderna, another monday here, jim, with 100 on severe and more discussion that come spring we may have nearly ten of these things to choose from. A remarkable moment because it is true this is warp speed and warp speed is run by the army and going to go to longterm care facilities at the same time it is going to go to Health Care Workers and i think the good news here is it will go to a lot of people that no one thought they could get to very early you shotgun the entire level of when you include modrna and dont even talk about j j i think
Begin with the oracle of omaha well start with the trimming of apple shares hes got more than 900 million we totally get it. Its not like buffetts bailing on apple in any way. It did sell about 36 million shares what is this, do you think is it simply Portfolio Management i think thats exactly right, scott. Its Portfolio Management. Apple being one of the most liquid stocks in the world on any market he could have sold a lot more than that if he had wanted to. So this is just, look, the stocks had a great run, hes pairing back a little bit, got a lot of cash. What i found kind of surprising is that with that much cash, actually not surprising but confirming on the value of the market is that he really hasnt made any big acquisitions. Hes only said hell only buy his stock if he cant find anything else to buy they scooped up 9 billion of their stock in the last quarter. They continue to buy back a lot of stock i do wonder even at the margins, ty any, if this is in any way a statement tha
Bide 253 Electoral College votes, trump 214 biden needs 1 out of those gray states that you see there, which still have not reported their results yet. Were expecting new numbers from nevada any minute now. Were going to watch for that. Look at the state of play in arizona as we move around the country. You see its biden in the lead 50. 5 to 48. 1, a difference of just over 68,000 votes ive talked to some trump people they are optimistic that the tail end of the count is going to be protrump because they are votes dropped off in person. You see the margin in nevada 49. 3, trump 48. 7 86 of the vote in there thats where were expecting some new numbers today the biden margin there is narrow but we dont know exactly what vote is coming in and from where in the state and which counties its coming in were going to have to watch for that one pennsylvania, theres been counting in fits and starts and who is allowed to be in which polling play counting house to see the actual results being coun
Has the details. I just spoke with kirk over at isi i wanted his take. He said microsoft is firing on all cylinders, beating all three major categories, Strong Quarter across the commercial franchises it was better than the street was looking for. Kirk said growth is translated into increasing profitability. He said are enterprises willing to spend giving this backdrop and in one of those segments he mentioned 12. 3 billion up 11 . Commercial revenue gross of 20 . Intelligent cloud 13 billion up 20 . And more personal computing, up 6 shares not doing a lot in the after hours. The forecast will be delivered on the call which starts at 5 30 a. M. As josh mentioned, no guidance i am sure every one wonders what they will say about Enterprise Spending especially with the news delivered yesterday what do you make of the quarter . They hit on everything. Josh went through it across the board better, with the Cloud Services area. What we are waiting on now is what is the forecast, what do thin
Smallerriers Like Hawaiian Airlines at s. F. O. And has unsustainable increases for our carrier. In addition to that i want to point out some specific burdens that exist with respect to the h. W. O. Very rarely in any job marketplace can you find plans that are available to employees at no cost, let alone to entire families at no cost. The h. W. O. Mandate coverage is so far beyond what even the most generous employers offer their employees, including the city of San Francisco, with their own employees. Specifically Hawaiian Airlines and our workforce is highly unionized and we negotiate collective bargaining agreements which are voted upon and approved by employees that include generous wage and benefit packages. We do not believe that this legislation should supersede our collective bargaining agreements or interfere with our relationships with our labor partners. Thank you again for another opportunity to weigh in on such a monumental decision. I strongly urge you to oppose the ordi