Markets up 87. The dow and s p shooting for their first gain in three days. Forbes is out with their mitous list ranking the top 100vcs in the world. Our nest guest is number five. He even replaced peter teal. Joining us is brian singerman, who is behind deals like facebooks purchase of oculus, the acquisition of stem centrics. Brian, welcome and congratulations. You go from number 37 to number 5. Its the biggest move. How do you explain it people how you did it . Thanks for having me on the show. It was a fantastic outcome for us. Its focused on finding cures for several indications of cancer. The team and the data were fantastic and e we had a great outcome there. Some of the notable investments is facebook, spotify, spacex and lyft. Were talking to you on a week of f8. Facebook is pennies away from an alltime high. Investors are having to absorb longterm Business Models and ideas. What did you make of facebook . I have loved facebook for a lock time. We were a very early investor th
Welcome to squawk alley for ay. Jon is back and sarah. A rally under way on wall street. The fresh alltime highs. Not far from 6,000. The markets seeing the biggest gains in more than a month as france gets ready for a runoff against macron and le pen. Lets get over to michelle live in paris with the latest. Hi, michelle. Reporter hi there, carl. The cover calls it macron sensation. And he has caused a sensation across european markets. Rocketing higher than 4 . The german dax hitting new intraday highs and london and spain also making big moves. The reason the markets are acting this way . Macron is very pro eu, very pro euro and hence the congratulations rolling in to him from other european leaders. The european commission, Angela Merkels chief of staff in germany, the German Foreign minister. The opponent le pen faces hurdles. Other opponents endorsed macron and the polls show and were rite yesterday and the markets are convinced about the second round polls to get shellacked by ma
Im sara eisen alongside dom ch chu. An update on Hurricane Matthew as it makes landfall in florida. A quick check of futures, under pressure just a bit here. The jobs report at 8 30 a. M. Eastern time for september. S p futures down almost 2 points. Nasdaq futures are down 6. Well keep an eye on that as it unfolds over this morning. A huge story overnight. Take a look at this chart. The british pond versus the u. S. Dollar. It all started just after 7 00 p. M. Last night in new york time, 7 00 a. M. In singapore and hong kong. Look at the intraday move. The currency plunging. In minutes. In minutes, by 6 against the u. S. Dollar. An extraordinary move like we have not seen before in this currency pair before recovering most of its losses. Concerns of the uks exit over the European Union, that shortterm drop speculating that it could have been triggered by a fat finger, rogue trade. Some traders are attributing the move made to comments late yesterday reported by the Financial Times fro
On sundays debate. Taylor Hillary Clinton and donald trump were in the ring again at Washington University in st. Louis for the second president ial debate of 2016, and the gloves came off almost immediately. Trump reeling from last weeks release from a 2005 tape in which the republican nominee discussed women in degrading terms. Clintonsto make bill 1990s scandals part of the conversation. He also discussed Hillary Clintons use of an email server while secretary of state. Mr. Trump people, their lives have been destroyed for doing 1 5 of what you have done, and you ought to be ashamed of yourself. Mrs. Clinton everything he just said is absolutely false, but i am not surprised. It is awfully good that someone with the temperament of donald trump is not in charge of the law in our country. Mr. Trump because you would be in jail. Moderator secretary clinton . Debate,prior to the trump appeared with a trio of women who previously accused bill clinton of sexual misconduct. Helicopters are
From monday morning. Good morning, im wilfred frost. We havent sat here together in a while. Its good to be back. Hillary clinton and Donald Trumps exchanges last night certainly getting personal. The candidates didnt shake hands at the beginning of the night. And then as soon as things kicked off, the candidates were asked to address the audio that surfaced on friday of donald trump making vulgar remarks. Listen. This was locker room talk. Im not proud of it. I apologized to my family and to the american people. Certainly im not proud of it. Have you ever done those things . I will tell you, no, i have not. Donald trump also went after Hillary Clinton for her email scandal. If i win, i am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation. Because there has never been so many lies, so much deception, there has never been anything like it. And were going to have a special prosecutor. Its just awfully good that someone with the temperament of d