Firmly in the red here nasdaq is up 104 . Up 3 this week alone. Only tuesday coming up on todays show kraft is trading higher. Of they outline two billion in cost cuts and selling off part of the cheese business not all of the cheese business and some confusion as to which cheeses go and which stay. Well find out why the companys president about those moves will join us to discuss whether lack of fresh stimulus can impact and speaking of stimulus, former treasury secretary jack lew will join us and his article calling for more than 2 trillion in government spending. We begin with breaking news on apple. It is much anticipated event unveiling a new number of products we have the latest josh so a lot of news in that 60 minutes of apples show today. Start with the new hardware. That new ipad air. It is going to start at 599 available next month 10. 9 inch display with a huge boost in performance we know the ipad is a hardware line clearly benefitting from that work from home trend apple w
Good thursday morning, welcome to squawk alley. Stocks did take a leg lower at the open the s p bounced right off of the 50 day well watch that closely but were off of the low levels of the early session. Here is the president yesterday on oracles deal with bite dance stands you said it was important that a u. S. Company buy tiktok. Were going to find out about that were looking at that from the standpoint of bitedance. We dont like that conceptually we dont like that. That has not been told to me yet. That has been reported but not told to me speaking of reporting, david faber has more of that for us. Not a lot of insight on that key question siting a source close to the deal, the conversations, that have been ongoing for awhile now. The president is most likely to make a decision in the next 24 to 36 hours. Not likely today, but prior to the weekend, im told, by someone familiar with the situation that he will make a decision as to the future ownership of tiktok here in the united st
This follows the fed chair powells comments on an uncertain economic recovery. Airline stocks are lore wer as e group pushes for more money. Time we got the details on that. Later moderna laying out its time line for vaccine as President Trump and the cdc contradict each other about when one will be fully available to americans. Maybe were splitting hairs a little bit maybe not. Well separate fact from fiction. Kelly, bye it feels strange to be this close to someone other than any husband. Lets take a look at the big board behind me. Whats leading the way industrials and materials. The only two sec sotors in the frie green. Thats the trend we have been seeing this week its the opposite story for tech down today down about 8 in september after an epic run for this group. Lets get over to bob. Hello most of the big megacap tech stock amazon, facebook, apple are down were getting one of these periodic boost from the cyclical slash value, slash reopening look at these material names and in
Starting with japan where the governing party has elected its new leader to succeed shinzo. A long time ally of the outgoing Prime Minister this liberal Democratic Party leadership vote paves the way for him to be placed in a parliamentary vote later this week is japans longest serving Prime Minister resigned last month for Health Reasons robert broads following this one from seoul today hi rob this looks like almost a succession in the end rather than election will be more of the same from a longtime ally of the Prime Minister. Indeed this is always going to be a foregone conclusion but still an impressive margin of victory or he goes super getting nearly 3 quarters of all of the votes cast his 2 rivals coming nowhere near to challenge him but then of course he was always the anointed successor in a way to as shinzo having served as his loyal faithful right had man as the chief cabinet secretary for nearly 8 years very much believing in these socalled conservative economics that were
The s p down 2. 5 and the dow 2. 7 the s p dropping 4. 4 last week and lets take a look at some of the specific names in all of this falling 7. 4 netflix 6. 6 and then the one everybody is talking about tesla. That stock plunging 10. 9 . Whenever we can talk about algorithms, do you know what im saying i like it as the secret sauce, wow, i wish, you know, i wish i took a little bit more calculus or math or whatever. Do you know lets talk about it because theres so much. Youre all fired up youre tweeting about it and i dont follow you belief it or not because i like to enjoy my weekend, but someone retweeted your stuff to me and im like oh, geez anyway, youre mad because trump said he wouldnt do a partnership ever when it was microsoft and now he likes oracle i figure its because well talk all about it all right make it i know. Do you know what im going to do im going to read this and say andrew take it away. Making headlines, sources telling cnbc that oracle is set to be announced as t