Lavongo on their merger and the first companys earnings report. David has news on microsoft and tiktok. Want to continue to update a story were following closely given we have not seen anything like it. Tiktok the incredibly popular social media app in the u. S. And around the world, bytedance its owner, the u. S. Government saying we will shut tiktok down in the u. S. Unless you find a way to transfer all of it to u. S. Ownership and microsoft playing the role as potentially the only suitor for the business i wanted to bring everybody up to date on new reporting that ive got because it is interesting. Both sides right now, bytedance and microsoft and of course the u. S. Government is still very much involved in this as well are negotiating to try to reach some sort of an agreement under which microsoft would buy the u. S. Business of texas toks u. S. Bit from bytedance within the next two to three weeks. That seems to be what theyre hoping for in terms of a timeline obviously in these
That because there are a lot of people who just think if we can break through that then were going to be able to say when we get a vaccine its just going to be game, set, match for the bulls because we are already at this level without the vaccine i think that today is a confluence of goldman puts citi, wells fargo and jpmorgan in the rearview mirror. Its the old Goldman Sachs model. We have moderna talking up a blue streak this morning on squawk with meg making us feel like inject my left arm, please. We have the Goldman Sachs number that looks like the old days david faber, goldman reminds me of when i dont know, what, 18 years ago yeah. It is a report from goldman that is you can liken to sort of some of the earlier years of their dominance when they were only recently a public company, jim, or really lets not forget their record quarters were actually right at the end of the financial meltdown of 08, 09 remember the numbers they printed then but this is a very Strong Quarter for th
From new york and across this nation today, any number of themes, but there are two front and center. The Vice President will speak in scranton, pennsylvania before ending the hour and jobless claims well over one million widely expected. All of that devolving into the layoffs here, the layoffs presumed to come and it sets us off for an American Labor economy that must be addressed. With that, the Market Reaction, as well. Jon ferro, the news flow has really been on recently and crescendos this morning into these announcements of job cuts at too Many Companies. Arethan by any standard we in a labor market crisis. There is a ton of work still to come. What we have seen from the Big Companies is they are starting to right size the business. We talked about this we talked about this week ago on the program. Companies are turning around after the shutdown and saying, we have to cut into this new world because we are not returning to normal anytime soon. You highlighted this yesterday, that
You have these records stimulus plans being proposed and a pretty Bleak Outlook certainly by the ecbs madame lagarde, and yet, we see the fear of missing out trade in full force across equity markets. It just feels like if this fomo trade continues, how much does the pressure come on fiscal policy makers to continue these programs . Jonathan i completely agree. Right now. Ope italy rallying because of what europe is about to do, or what they are talking of doing, and germany not really backing up any big way. We had record issuance in the United States. What have treasury yields done . Not a whole lot. The market is wide open for these guys to do a whole lot more. Lisa yesterday, the Federal Reserve sold twoyear notes at ,he lowest ever yield of 0. 18 which brings us to what we are looking at today. You are seeing u. S. Treasuries selling another 45 billion of fiveyear notes. Also it to 00 p. M. , the fed is going to release its beige book also at 2 00 p. M. , the fed is going to relea
Press here once again. Normally, you know as an introduce the ceo well talk to, i show a little video of that ceo working at their Office Working at hard. In this case well show a video shot by a Family Member at home. What makes crystal so unique is she spent a good portion of her career as a ceo in her house. Shes a brandnew ceo, taking office just a few weeks before the stayathome order. And thats where we find her, crystal joining us Via Teleconference from her home. Good morning. Thats quite a timeline. You get your first job as ceo, a few weeks lat right, thanks for having me, scott, that is a very true statement. That must be tough. How are you managing as ceo, trying to work from your Kitchen Table . Well, i think its been challenging for a lot of people. But i have to tell you, the comment that you made about the fact that ive worked from home for the better part of my career has really helped equip me to know exactly what its going to take to work remote and to really make su