It pushes the companys valuation to 10 billion. We will hear from the ceo of aurora. With dizzying market rallies, ipos, couldnt we all use some calm . Of all talk to the coceo , valuation has doubled. U. S. Stocks climbing twoway record amid stimulus discussions. Lets get to Abigail Doolittle in new york to break it all down. Walk us through the day. Abigail it turned out to be a bullish reversal at the end of the day. There were pretty steep declines for the major averages. Today, the vaccine was launched. Pfizers vaccine started distribution in the u. K. There were record highs by the afternoon, and nasdaq at another record high. Chewy. Com and gamestop. They put up a pretty strong quarter, they beat estimates. The sixth sales beat in a row. I am not sure what is weighing on them as of this moment. Active customers increased, including myself. The website allows you to order for your pets. The results certainly proved it. Gamestop put up a disappointing quarter, missing sales. The s
Good morning, welcome back to squawk box right here on cnbc this morning. Im Andrew Ross Sorkin along with joe kernen and kelly evans. Becky is off today lets show you where futures stand at this hour maybe 12, 15 hours after President Trump returning to the white house. The dow looks like it would open down marginally about 63 points off, nasdaq off about 83 s p 500 off about 15 points. Lets also show you treasury yields as we speak, well show you the ten year yield right now, you are looking at 0. 763. Meanwhile ill pass it over to kelly. Thanks for joining us this morning. And youve got the news on President Trump. And before we get to that, joe, we were just joking about, you know, you and me we could banter and we were in studio and andrew wasnt and now, you know, were all no, you are in studio still im still here. Ive been here since april and i like it here there is no delay. Is that are you wearing orange or that red i think that were in sync sort of yeah, it was an orangey red
You have that poll in the wall stre street journal and maybe the stock market considering maybe we wont have a contested lebs if the polling tells you anything accurate about where this race truly is what do you think investors should be taking from this move . I think thats correct. I think the two primary drivers for the higher market today are certainly the fiscal spending and what it equates to in the near term and the dynamic in the market for a trade and investors to extap larapolate is a rise i yields were finally seeing a welcome rise in yields and that is certainly on the belief of both of those actions i mentioned previously you have that to consider and how you want to trade that it has a direct impact perhaps on growth versus value, the polling on the upcoming election and were thinking about the president s health and what all of this means for the Campaign Going forward. So youve got a number of things in there. Lets start with yields. Rates being 0. 74 as a new high or r
Apple is above 467. 77 making it the first u. S. Company to have a market cap above 2 trillion, a discussion a few moments ago about tim cook and how he has led stewardship of the company through all kinds of cross currents josh lipton joins us to talk more about that. Josh, its funny to look at that change of market cap and think back to some of the more cautionary calls weve gotten in the past few weeks from the likes of b of a who worry about margin pressure on phones, margin pressure on services, less impact from the buyback and so forth yeah. Listen, you look at this recent run, carl, obviously they had those earnings in late july that blue past the streets expectation. You saw strong growth in sales of the new low cost iphone sc. You can chalk this recent run to a few big trends one, theyll say listen in Uncertain Times cash is king and obviously apple has a lot of it, net cash position of 81 billion and counting also, that work from home trend is clearly helping apple or at leas
Twitter makes a move for tiktoks u. S. Assets. The u. S. Imposes fresh sanctions on hong kong officials. The worst is over despite the oil giant reporting a 73 drop in Second Quarter profits. He has been arrested over colluding with foreign powers. They have been searched by police lai is the most high profile detention since the legislation was imposed by beijing in une. Police raided the offices of the newspaper and took away boxes of materials. Shares surged today quadrupling at one point it is Retail Investors behind todays stock moves that are not motivated by Company Fundamentals they recently reported a 58. 8 million loss for the year in a Facebook Post one financial kol or key opinion leader said he bought 1. 2 million shares in the stock in a show of support for apple daily and free speech. He then sold some for a profit but kept some shares to be eligible to take part in the companys agm scheduled for friday President Trump donald slapped sanctions on 11 hong kong officials.