Good Tuesday Morning welcome to squawk alley. Were with you for the hour, what a fascinating market day, john walmart and home depot tickiki things off then for awhile there a bit of a tumble the dow briefly at its biggest loss plenty of dynamics to watch as we watch the retail earnings and the progress on stimulus big stocks and big tech in particular apple is fractionally higher amazon perhaps riding that retail news overall. Up better than 2. 5 . Alphabet up about a percent. Microsoft lower, and then there is oracle. In the news because of this tiktok bid, perhaps, carl. I dont know if there is anyone not bidding for tiktok lets start off with exactly that as a source tells cnbc that oracle has entered the race to buy tiktoks u. S. Operations. Walt, you know what my first take was on this microsoft was telling this story about their focus on the enterprise now theyre bidding for tiktok and oracle, how does it facility them at all . Does everyone just have to have a look microsoft ba
At one point, they were convenience not absolute indicated up about 300 points on necessity as in the activity that positive news out of moderna. The s p is indicated up about 13 couldnt be performed, so even if youre working out of your points and the nasdaq would open home in new jersey, new jersey says wait a minute were not by about two points after a giving you a credit because you performed the work here. Strong dayyesterday. We get to tax you too. So both sets of taxes. All of those states are facing severe crunches at this point so i would imagine all of those states will be pretty aggressive about it. When you say you could do the work some where else, new york city was closed down, offices the nasdaq was up by 1 . Have been closed down. Employers didnt want people back in the building lets look at the treasury seems like a little extraordinary during these times. Do you think eventually what happens the states gettogether you will see the 10year now and work something out whe
Without question, the data, another remarkable day after the remark about turnaround we saw yesterday. Jonathan ferro will give you that data in a moment. Coming up, terrific sets of conversation on economics. Youve got the retail sales data coming out that will be most interesting and important as a sign of the american economy. Jay powell at 10 00. In moments, we are honored to bring you the secretary of labor of the United States after the history made yesterday at the Supreme Court. Jonathan, that was remarkable to see what the Supreme Court announced yesterday, the Immediate Impact of those for and those against. Jonathan making some serious progress on a whole range of issues in this labor market, particularly on discrimination. Weve heard about the social injustice of the last couple of weeks. But we are making progress, and i think that is key. Equity futures are positive 43 points on the s p 500. Treasury yields, the curve is steeper. ChairFederal Reserve navigates that with t
The dow is looking for about a 300 point gain right there at the opening bell. S p up about 34. Look at that nasdaq go. Technology is doing well, up 104 points. Thats premarket for the nasdaq. Now, lockdown winners. Clearly emerging. Lowes, the Home Improvement people, headquartered in North Carolina. Profit up 28 . We stocked up for the lockdown. Target, they really organized their online delivery and store pickup operation, lumped together under digital sales, up a whopping 141 . Walmart, same story. Stockpiling helped them, too. Amazon, kings of the online selling business. Boy, did they clean up. The stock is near a record high. And the netflix, well, they are the kings of the streaming business. What else are we supposed to do when we are ordered to stay home for weeks on end . There are a lot more virus winners and we will go through them throughout the show. Meanwhile, the revolt continues all across the country. Businesses are defying the authorities and opening up despite the
Jobless claims news, over last nine weeks, over 40 million americans applied for first time jobless benefits this is expected to be about the worst of it. We might see an unemployment report tipping 20 or so. That could be the worst of it or at least that is the hope. Lets getted read from Jackie Deangelis following what is happening on the virus, following what is happening on the markets putting it all together. Hey, jackie. Reporter neil, with respect to a bumpy ride the markets are a little confused today. Down 50 points, this is smaller bump than weve seen in the past which is definitely a good thing. The big question has always been as states start to reopen, are we going to see a spike in cases . That was always the fear, the argument against reopening. Here is what we know, global cases topping five million but that doesnt really tell the whole story. Testing has become more readily available. More people being tested. It will look like more people have the virus, presumably be