Good morning, it is midnight in beijing its 11 00 a. M. On wall street and squawk alley is live. Good friday morning welcome to squawk alley. Im jon fortt with carl quintanilla. Its the end of cloud week on squawk alley. What a week its been. They have brought news on custom chips, Machine Learning and more sales force announced plans to buy slack for nearly 28 billion in the second largest Software Deal ever. Weve had ibm and microsoft weigh in snowflake and others have turned in blah earnings well hear from the ceo this hour what does it mean for investors already sky high investor malic noijoins us now i cant believe we never had you on squawk alley before i hope this is a trend i want to start with sales force slack. I know that you have known stu butterfield for a long time, even before flicker was a hit. You think this very expensive deal makes sense why . So lets remove the price out of the equation. I think what youre looking at right now is in 2020, we have gone from the idea
An antitrust lawsuit against google, characterizing its search and advertising business as a monopoly. Shares shrugging it off, up 2 well speak to a top analyst about what it could mean Going Forward for big tk and Tilman Fertitta is seeing bright spots in the country. Hell tell us where and why. Power lunch starts right now let me welcome you to power lunch as well take a look at some of the big names we are watching today. Netflix slightly higher ahead of its earning reports, that stock down about 4 . And no earnings boost to ibm, thats the biggest drag on the dow after reporting its Third Straight quarter of revenue declin declines and financials one of the best performing sectors thanks to regional banks, helping the rest of the group kelly. John, thank you we begin with the two big stories out of washington today. Elan has the story but first Kayla Tausche is tracking new developments on stimulus aid reporter today marks the end of the 48hour window that nancy pelosi set to reach
Ask yourselves now that nearly all the big tech outfits reported and a day the market rebounded from its lows. S p jumping 1. 19 and the nasdaq surging 1. 69 . All right. It didnt make back everything it lost, but like i said, nobody ever made any money panicking. If you panicked yesterday, always a better time there is a whole network of smart, rigorous Money Managers who believe apple, amazon have become ridiculously expectative. Downright danger to zone they dont welcome the possibility that these could be worth trillions of dollars im not kidding, every day same goes for their compadres netflix and microsoft. There are tons of stocks in this market way too expensive by any traditional valuation metrics. However, that does not include facebook, apple, amazon, maybe alphabet say nothing of microsoft only netflix is one that i think is a bit of an outlier this is 2020, not 2000 that being the dotcom boom with the exception of amazon and netflix, all of these big tech stocks are valued
1. 9 trillion. Also some comments on timing. A a lot of comment from the white house. Tesla is the stock afterhours. Trying to eke out gains. Looks like it will. Ahead of Earnings Report we expect to come out during this hour. Well cover that. Analysts look for any sign that tesla meets delivery target fore2020. The number to watch is 500,000 vehicles. 500,000 on deliveries. Remember that when tesla comes out. Today our swing state economy series brings us to south st. Paul, minnesota. Weve been speaking to people on the ground as President Trump wants to flip this state red. He has less than two weeks to do so. Well hear about Business Owners and how the economy impacts the vote. Were ask our host, with a local business running here since the 1800s at the same location. How they weathered the pandemic and over times. They make fire hydrants and Fire Suppression equipment. Real interesting american company. Well talk a lot about that later in the hour. Fox Business Team coverage of our
Restrictions in one city, but investors are brushing that off. As well, up firmly part of the Semiconductor Story, looking forward to samsung earnings. Looking at currency, the dollar story almost the weakest in terms of the bloomer dollar index, for close to two years bloomberg dollar index, for close to two years. Down for tense of 1 . Hasonshore yuan strengthened. The aussie dollar up as well. On the next board, looking at gold, futures breaking through 2000 announce. You have the likes of bank of america predicting you could get 3000 in therice next 18 months. Wti up 3 10 of 1 . The 10 year yield has edged up marginally at 62 basis points. You can see there has been a marginal rotation out of chinese 10 year as well, more risk on sentiment in the mainland. Rishaad all right, lets look at one of the biggest movers, 7 . Shares up around one at one point. We have a company that has become the worlds 10th biggest stock. Our guest from aberdeen standard investments. Thank you for joinin