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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
Chips. And, Microsoft Online Game Services hitby by an outage. Dropping amid a tuesday. N big tech the ecommerce giant amazon facing an antitrust complaint from the eu abigail, walk us through the factors dragging stocks down today. Abigail another mix today. Another down day for tech and the nasdaq 100 in particular having the worst two days and months. On the others, other sex is and indexes doing well such as the russell 2000 and other cyclically minded sectors. 4 . Worst slide, down about investors want out of this years stayathome trade. Investors charging forward into the reopening trade. Inout, inout. As for what was dragging on technology, you were talking about amazon. , in a, now down that youn, the eu talk were mentioning. This was the ultimate stayathome stock. If the economy is going to reopen, recover a little bit sooner than expected. Even as the virus numbers are worsening right now. Investors one out of amazon, one out of microsoft. Zoom, these stocks up so much on the
Battleground states today, north carolina, pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin. Hes just getting on the stage right now in wisconsin. Joe biden zeroing in on two states, ohio and pennsylvania. Earlier today mr. Biden making several Campaign Stops in pennsylvania. Were currently awaiting mr. Biden to begin his final speech in pittsburgh. Its a drivein rally, the same city he launched his campaign 18 months ago. Lets take you live to kenosha, wisconsin. President trump has just taken the stage there. This is, again, his fourth rally of the evening. He will be heading to grand rapids, michigan after this. This is in kenosha. And this is his second to the last final rally of the evening. It looks like theyre going to go until the midnight hour on the east coast. Across the country and here in the bay area, take a look. Stores are boarding up ahead of any postelection unrest. Business owners are just crossing their fingers and hoping for the best. Nbc bay areas melissa colorado joins us fr
Im becky quick along with joe kerr de kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. After two days of optimism, the get out there again trade was on turned around a little bit yesterday. We did see people rushing back to the stayathome stocks as covid cases and momentization hs continue to climb. And some states are imposing restrictions and the nasdaq ended up 2 after being down monday and tuesday. Yesterday the dow ended flat, right now indicated down by about 115. Never made to the record, still waiting circumstanling around tt s p 500 down by 2. 5 and nasdaq indicated up another 51 points this morning these were the stay at home stocks, amazon up, apple up 3 , zoom which had gotten hammered, yesterday up by almost 10 took c docusign 5. 2 and netflix 2. 2 and treasury yields, yesterday it was closed for veterans day this morning it is open and you can see the ten year still around the very heightened levels, again, not historically, but based on what weve seen in recent history within range of 1 a