Good tuesday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt and Julia Boorstin on this election day markets are continuing the rally we got on monday were close to session highs right now. Dow is up 665. Best day since june 5th for the dow and s p 500. Best breadth since april 8th nasdaq and s p 500 erased their october loss, jon, as were seeing things like yields go higher as well and the dollar weaken which is another sign that some of the imbedding on emerging markets going out of this election. Yeah, carl. Looking at tech overall and particularly big tech, its interesting the gap between microsoft and amazon lagging behind apple, thats narrowing a bit. Remember, you had apple above 2 trillion in market cap and around 1. 5 trillion now thats come down apple is below 2 trillion those two are still around 1. 5 alphabet lagging all of those year to date so what is surging today tesla is up 5. 5 sales force, cisco, micron, dell, if you look at enterprise space, tho
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These ballots were cast already. They were cast under the laws of the states, and they were cast by the deadline. Some mail ballots might be coming in later that were postmarked. A lot of mail ballots came in today. But this process is still ongoing. And as was pointed out, and this was a really great point. On the one hand, President Trump is arguing to stop the count of validly cast ballots in states like michigan and wisconsin and pennsylvania and georgia, but on the other hand, arguing for continuing to count ballots in arizona because he thinks it will benefit him. Consistently, what weve always done is we count all of the ballots that were cast on election day and thats what were doing right now. And there are likely still tens of millions of ballots out there, including millions of ballots in the states were looking at that we havent called yet. Is it unusual for there to be a vote count after election day . Its not unusual at all for there to be a vote count after election day.
Florida, georgia, iowa, michigan, nevada, north carolina, pennsylvania, ohio, texas, and wisconsin. Our Team Coverage begins with our political reporter greg lee, who has been tracking the results. Greg, any surprises so far . I dont think so, frank some of the results were seeing kind of what we expected. States that both parties held in 2016. Arizona certainly one that were waiting to see the results of after polls just closed there. Were watching a number of those swing states, like you said, that could very well determine which direction this goes. A reminder we, it is very early in many of these states. So lets start in the midwest. States President Trump flipped in 2016 that democrats want and need to get a clear path back to the white house. Pennsylvania very, very early. Joe biden leading 72 to 24 . Just 9 reporting. Now we want to go to michigan. A close state in 2016. You can see there 6 reporting. President trump leading 57 to 41 . This is the case of maybe that red mirage,