We will hear from the head of west coast listings jeff thompson. Lucids desert oasis just finished a listing in san francisco. We will get a picture of supply and demand with first, u. S. Stocks started the month off by hitting records on stimulus talks and covert progress. Salesforce says it will proceed with plans to buy lack for 7. 7 billion to buy slack for 7. 7 billion. Slack prices up, salesforce had dropped. What do we see after hours . Abigail both shares are down. The idea that salesforce. Com would buy slack, now lo and behold, that is happening. As you mentioned, 27 point 7 billion in cash and stock. Some are wondering about the cash piece. Salesforce. Com does have a lot of cash, so using it here for this deal, and i think the bigger thing to take a look at is the fact that salesforce. Coms Ceo Marc Benioff has made more than 60 acquisitions, as you know, in his 21 years, making salesforce. Com the conglomerate of all these different pieces. Now they have this Communication
Do you dunk the entire covid cohort or stick with it on a dow when the rose 183 and the nasdaq gained 1. 8 the reaction to zoom Video Communications after it reported a good quarter that wasnt quite good enough for wall street. This company practically sin none mouse with the new normal and look ban on 2020 as the year of zoom so when you see it down 15 its alarming. You got to wonder what that means for the rest of the stayathome stocks. The answer, nothing. Just because zooms insanely high growth is decelerating that doesnt mean the trend is over in fact, id argue it never had gone away because this year has shown us millions of jobs can be done better from home. No need for that central office. Why go to meetings to negotiate or sign documents when you do everything over the web and save millions, maybe ten, maybe hundreds of millions in travel, hotel, dinners, zoom, i mean thats how the 39 billion s p global ihs market deal was consummated as we heard from Doug Pederson on mad mone
On a covered relief package, is congress truly ready to drop the politics and throw the financial lifeline to millions of americans, Peter Navarro is about to join me live from the white house the president s top trade advisor helplessly demanding more from billions and coronavirus aid to form what he calls a physical bridge between the terrifying covid spike were seen today and widespread vaccine distribution, why hes breaking with cop senators who are resisting the relief package. How do salesforce is 28 billion acquisition of work from home darling slack really go down, slack cofounder and ceo Stuart Butterfield who grew up in a cabin with no Running Water in canada. What a story, he will take us inside the room to tell us how he got a price for his work from anywhere in prior that has some on wall street raising eyebrows but not salesforce. We begin with the fox business alert, could we be days away from a covid relief bill, House Speaker nancy pelosi holding a News Conference a co
Investors are shrugging that off as stocks look to rally at the open. One name that may not rally is zoom. Shares of zoom are sinking yeah, in the premarket, work from home stock taking a hit from a rising free user base and increasing cloud costs and we have vaccine optimism, moderna and pfizer filing for emergency use and Vice President pence says vaccine rollout expected to begin in two weeks carl all right jim, i guess the question of the morning is whether that rotation, that worked historically well in the month of november, still applies. I think were running out of gas in terms of the oil and gas and focusing on exxon. Stock may not go down, giving the dividend, it says, look, were at wits end and the big Exploration Development period for exxon, market leader, u. S. Leader, is i think now over. We are following were following europe and japan and i think that we forget that you come in today, and you look for all sorts of reasons why were up and up strongly except we dont look
Vice president ial contenders take the stage for the one and only vp debate in Salt Lake City tonight. We will take you straight to the beehive state for a live preview of what could be the most intensely watched vp faceoff in history. And our allstar Political Panel, Brad Blakeman and mary ann marchon on why the president chose his Supreme Court nominee over trillions in coronavirus stimulus yesterday only to reverse. Plus, slack stepping it up to take on tiktok and instagram . Slack unveiling workplace video stories as it fights off new challenges from google. Ceo Stuart Butterfield joins us live in just a moment because they have a whole host of other things they are floating. Really interesting things. In the meantime, lets get to the president s tweet thats got the markets doing quite a dance. This is what we saw at this time yesterday, after President Trump put a full stop to stimulus negotiations. You could see it. It really began to fall very dramatically. His tweetstorm right