Message in the market that we need to Pay Attention to i think its interesting because last weeks the markets were so weak and everyone felt so despondent that this week was going to be just a replay of last week. I think that as the election is here today, people are settled, i think, into the fact that we will have a result i thisnk the market thinks we will have a result in the next 24 hours i think we all have fatigue from this election and i this i just havi i think just having a decision is what the market is pricing in now and after the decision, well go from there. I think the market is positive for clarity. It may not be clear but well see tomorrow what actually happens. Unless the market is getting ahead of itself. If you go by our cnbc states of play poll, only one in five think youre going to have an answer tonight on election night. The market seems to be acting over the next couple of days like were going to go to bed knowing who the next president will be or donald trump
Continue to own the majority stake in tictac something President Trump says he does not like were looking into that from the standpoint of buy dance we dont like that ive been just conceptually i can tell you i dont like that. That has not been told to me yet that has been reported but it hasnt been told to me it could be very accurate reporting for a change so if thats the case im not going to be happy with the only this is china which i think it probably is yeah the Chinese Foreign ministry also responded to the latest reports thursday continued to label the situation as unfair. So we urge the u. S. To respect the principles of market economy and fair competition abide by International Economic and trade rules stop politicising normal economic and trade cooperation we can provide an open fair and nondiscriminatory Business Environment for Foreign Companies in the u. S. And joining us now to discuss our boom bust cohost Christine Benz swan and thank you both for being here as always k
A strange twist in all this because remember originally the deal was coming down to either oracle or microsoft then walmart jumped into it and said well well partner up with microsoft will sweeten the deal and it should come to us and then it didnt go into oracle instead so now somehow walmart has jumped off of the microsoft ship and theyre now jumping into this with oracle apparently as you said here in the lead up the c. E. O. Doug mcmillan of walmart is going to get a board seat on to talk as part of this deal and walmart with own an equity stake in the company in fact what the treasury secretary Steven Nugent has said is that u. S. Companies oracle and walmart he claims will together own a combined 50 percent plus of ticket now we dont know that thats true thats just what hes saying but hes saying those to us investors which calling these guys investors is ridiculous right because it does best its almost like highway robbery or like bandits that are jumping into this forced to sell
Coming up this saga in the fight for tick tock continues as china claims it will need to have a say in the oracle deal straight ahead we dive into the ongoing fight for the worlds hottest social media ad and another week another round of u. S. Jobless claims amid the coven 1000 pandemic later on we break down these numbers and the state of u. S. Markets with a packed show today so lets dive right in. And its a strange concept to think about but within the next 24 to 36 hours President Donald Trump will rule on whether social Media Company tick tock will be allowed to continue operating here in the United States in a move that is unprecedented President Trump will decide whether or not to allow take back to deal with oracle to move forward details of the agreement would give oracle a 20 percent ownership stake in tictac and were now learning would give walmart c. E. O. A seat on tick tocks board now the deal would mean that Chinese Company by dance will continue to own the majority stak
But we begin with what we think are the three most important things investors should be thinking right now. The u. S. Stock market plunged this past thursday and swung wildly on friday. Was it just a hiccup or a sign to take profits . Big banks are weathering the economic downturn better than feared. Why its time to size up their shares. And billionaire Warren Buffett just went on a shopping spree for stocks in japan. How u. S. Investors can follow his lead. On the barrons roundtable, my colleague, ben levisohn, carlton english and al root. Ben, the stock market actually fell late this past week. I had forgotten it can do that sort of thing. What happened and how worried should i be . Well, ask three wall street strategists, and youre going to get at least five different answers about why stocks fell. But really this had to happen. Stocks just had an amazing august led by tech stocks. They just kept going up and up and up, and they started september the same way. And it needed a cleans