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
Down days for the markets. Right now s p down by about 11, dow by 96, nasdaq off by about 47 we were so close to you dow 30,000 earlier in the week, but that seems to be slipping away a little bit 29,400 and change is where the dow is right now and again, down two days in a row, down again this morning and after yesterdays declines, all three of the major averages are in negative territory for the week a lot of things happening with covid and well talk more about that in a moment, but some of those concerns creeping back into what you see in the markets. If you are looking at the treasury market, the yield on the ten year right now is sitting just at about 0. 852 and the vix also spiking yesterday, probably a little bit on concerns about what happens as we go back into some of the lockdowns. The seesaw of good and bad news on covid. And well give you a bit of good news that happened overnight in the vaccine wars developed by the university of oxford and astrazeneca found to be safe. An
A gaining traction. It could help the pandemic poll showing many europeans already had their doubts. Doctors are taking to social media to change minds. I hope for the last moments of your life. Dont look like this. Hi there. Thanks for joining us. This is r. T. Internet. Iranian president has accused israel of killing the countrys top scientist, son rouhani added that the assassination of the man dubbed the mastermind of Irans Nuclear program wont slow down the countrys achievements. There are also branded the attack an act of state terrorism. A local reporter gave us more details. Senior iranian scientist was killed on a highway near tehran. Theres not much detail about number of people involved in the attack, or number of People Killed in the incident, and skirmish tag took place some 75 kilometers outside tehran in north east of tehran, near the resort city of stat. You know, apparently did it. Traffic was quite less than usual in comparison to the other days. And the terrorists ap
The owner of a small restaurant in canada is ordered to stay away from his premises after being arrested for keeping it open during lockdown. He supports a scuffle with police during the tension that afternoon, just gone for cocaine. Moscow, youre watching international. Now the iranian president is accuse israel of killing his countrys top scientist, sandra carney, added that. The assassination of the man dubbed the mastermind of Irans Nuclear program wont slow down the countrys achievements, his reminder of what happened. Well, the Iranian Foreign minister is making it clear once again that tehran purely treat this as an act of state terror. Jawad zarif is pointing the finger at israel and also he is demanding international attention. Terrorists murdered an imminent iranian scientists today. This cowardice with serious indications of his really role show desperate warmongering of perpetrators. Iran calls on International Community and especially you to end their shameful double stand
The owner of a small restaurant in canada is ordered to stay away from his premise is after being arrested for keeping it out during lockdown. Because supporters scuffles with police during the detention good afternoon, just 3 oclock in moscow. You with r. T. International. The iranian president has accused israel of killing his countrys top scientists sand. But harney added that the assassination of the man, the mastermind of Irans Nuclear program wont slow down the countrys achievements is a reminder of what happened. Well the Iranian Foreign minister is making it clear once again that iran purely treat this as an act of state terror. Jawad zarif is pointing the finger at israel and also he is demanding international attention. Terrorists murdered an imminent iranian scientists today. This cowardice with serious indications of this really roll show desperate warmongering of perpetrators. Iran calls on the International Community and especially you to end their shameful double standar