Good wednesday morning welcome to squawk alley. Im john for the with caro quintanilla and Julia Borstin well start with apple, a cost cut for Small Developers josh lipton breaks down the news for us. Here is how the new program is going to work its called the App Store Small Business Program it launches on january 1st and it does represent a big change here. Developers earning up to 1 million during the Previous Year will now be eligible for a commission of 15 on paid apps and inapp purchases, and that is half of apples Standard Commission apple says the new program will impact what it says is the vast majority of developers selling Digital Goods and services on the store. Tim cook saying in a statement the app store has been an engine of Economic Growth like none other, creating millions of new jobs and a pathway to entrepreneurship accessible to anyone with a great idea for investors this change is also important remember, the app store is critical for apple it accounts for an estima
S p by 11, nasdaq up by about 42 there were a few areas of the market yesterday that continued to outperform including the small caps russell 2000 coming off an alltime intra day high. And then there is the khodow trs trading at a record high and right now it looks like the ten year is yielding just about 0. 8 the transports a lot of times, they are an early indicator of what is to come, but maybe more difficult to glean what is happening this time given the overall virus situation. Yeah, it is and it is really not things Like Airlines so much driving the transports actually fedex and u. P. S. Are arguably kind of stayathome plays and they are also big components of the transports so really just kind of gone sideways in the last day or so, not much of a pullback just yet. So well very to see how that develops and in this context especially with the White House Task force painting a bleak picture on the near term outlook. The most recent report warns that there is, quote, now aggressive
Comprehensive assessment of the future of the department and the need to reshape the [indiscernible] around emerging threats. It went like this morning. I encourage you to read it on our website. Today, i am thrilled to a discussion on the future after the future of dhs, emerging threats and the american public. I am joined by two esteemed guests. The creator, writer, and director of call of duty black ops, steve anthony. Max brod. You two are some of the most creative people i know. You both spend your days thinking about how the world is changing. You have been very successful applying gaming and fiction to imagine the future. I cannot think of two better people to dig into this discussion with us. As a reminder, i encourage our audience to pose questions by the q a tab at the bottom. We only have 25 minutes in this first session. I will try to pose as many of your questions as i can. Lets jump right in. Threatstion of emerging is a critical one. It is something addressed in the repo
Intends to bring a deal to the white house by september 20, the official deadline date. Joining now to break down the week that was is abigail doolittle. Volatility volatility volatility. Walk us through the week that was and how might next week be different . Volatileeek was very and choppy. Up and down, a real roller coaster. At the end, it was a down week and today was especially choppy. Earlier, it felt as though the bulls were trying to take it away then the bears stepped in. The s p 500 up slightly. The nasdaq down. Continues to be newtons third law what goes up must come down. We are seeing a bit of a reversal. On the day and the week, even though we had the nasdaq down, we also had the nasdaq 100 fix down. Next week, maybe some of this choppiness will leave. You see apple down again on the day. Pointing to the idea that next week maybe in the near term, some of the choppiness will leave. If we go to the terminal, we have a great heart. Over the longterm, this probably suggests
Consumer sentiment levels rising slightly there are some signs momentum is faltering. Corporate america making big layoffs. Underlying the wall street main street divide. 59 minutes left in the trading week s p 500 set for its sixth Straight Record closing high 7th day in a row of gains and 5th week in a row of gains coming up in a few minutes. Were going to speak with James Bullard about this weeks major fed policy shift the strength of this recovery, washington stimulus stalemate and much more. A bold call on energy, we will speak with a strategist who says now is the time to buy the sector continues to lag far behind the Broader Market, despite todays pop. Lets get straight to this resilient market, the s p 500 looking to close out its 7th straight day of gains, the dow turning positive for the year. Mike san tolly tracking all that action resilient, relentless, persistent, this uptrend, the s p 500 clicks the 3500. So essentially bumping up against that thats your High Water Mark i