Is live. Pump up the jam good friday morning welcome to squawk alley. Markets still in the green pinning hopes to stimulus talks. Were watching headlines best week so far this morning, jon, in two months for the dow yeah. And in tech this morning, carl, hey, weve called it out here on squawk alley before. Today amd eyeing xilynks amd is a 100 million market cap down 3 on a 30 billion deal. Investors are giving this blessing a few different trends here. A hot of Tech Companies have richly valued stock to play with there is pressure to answer and three u. S. Restrictions are hurt something chip makers like xilinks and theres no end to that in site good morning, guys pat, are you surprised not a the hoff overlap here. So in that sense, maybe this deal isnt at risk but, hey, not a lot of overlap here. So maybe this is risky the. Yeah. The so as you said before, amd needs to grow. When i look at valuation, im sure stacy will will weigh in on this, it had to do something organic growth isnt
Even home depot, which was great, is lower, as the whats next is the question that we have. With stacy witless, fw retailer advisors president. Also night one of the Democratic National convention saw democrats ripping it up President Trump with tough words from former First Lady Michelle Obama and bernie sanders. Let me be as honest and clear as i possibly can donald trump the wrong president for our country. He has had more than enough time to prove that he can do the job, but he is clearly in over his head. He cannot meet this moment. He simply cannot be who we need him to be for us. But let us be clear. If donald trump is reelected, all the progress we have made will be in jeopardy. And its most basic. This election is about preserving our democracy. Alix joining me now for more is wendy jennison, Bloomberg Politics editor. What was your biggest pic for tonight and how does that set us up for the dnc tonight . The biggest takeaway from last night was the effectiveness of Michelle O
Colleges are told to offload holdings of mainland companies. Australia signs a deal to make any covid19 vaccine for all. The government will distribute should it prove successful. More vaccine optimism playing out in australia. Lets look at how we are shaping up in terms of the u. S. Future session. Another renewed push of momentum in u. S. Markets overnight, hitting the record, propelled again by the same names. Also betterthanexpected u. S. Housing data. 2016 helping out sentiment, as well. We have positivity when it comes to the active futures trading at the moment. The nikkei 225 trading in chicago, looking flat at the moment ahead of a trade balance numbers, as well as machinery orders. We do have the topix, best performer in terms of Global Markets so far in this month of august. We are looking at broad weakness when it comes to the u. S. Dollar. The dollar sinking to his lowest levels since may of 2018. Im worried about the u. S. Economy with yet no relief package, stimulus pack
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Leaning on big cap tech. Once again ass an anchor s p 500 First Time Since february, microsoft, tiktok in the news schumer says the democrats in the white house have started to move a little closer on a stimulus agreement, and of course david disney tonight, which will give us all kinds of information about the progress of parks, studio entertainment, advertising and more as we have said many times over the last few months, disney in some ways a reflection of the economy, certainly the consumer side of it to some extent. I know julia is going to be following that closely after the bell expectations cant be particularly high but we are looking for a lot more data when it comes to the parks and the attendance, when it comes to directtoconsumer of course with disney plus and the exhibition of motion pictures, which is not something thats going on right now. Absolutely, david, i mean, i think it will be really interesting to get some more insight into the success of that streaming business