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Good wednesday morning welcome to squawk alley. Im Caro Quintanilla with jon fortt. Deirdre is with us for the hour. Nasdaq is trying to come back after a couple of days of losses as we turn our attention once again to covid levels in the United States. Were going to start the hour, though, with alibaba, a big drop for the stock despite these new sales records on this singles day. Hi, eunice hey, carl live streamers in china are wrapping up whats been a very long day pitching to Chinese Consumers and it seems as though the efforts have paid off. For alibaba, the value of the orders that crossed the site have just come in at just shy of a 500 billion, about 75 billion u. S. Dollars these numbers cap an extended 11day campaign thats a little different this time around not the usual 24hour singles day shopping extravagan ....
Thanks for starting it right here with us. Im marcus washington. And im laura garcia. Well get to mike and the Early Morning commute, if there is one out there, but lets check in with kari right now. Were talking about cooler temperatures could help out firefighters. Yeah, thats been such a Welcome Change for the bay area as we start out this morning with a layer of that marine layer, the clouds, and the fog near the coastline. Our air quality will still be unhealthy today for many of our microclimates except for the coast and beaches where we will see that fog pushing in more of that fresh air and not so much of that stagnant air we have in the valleys. As our temperatures today reach into the upper 80s in a lot of we continue to monitor all the bay area fires. Heres the latest this hour. The warmer spots. Well talk more about this the lnu complex in the north bay coming up. ....
Lets get your headlines for you. Beijing cansles flights and orders schools to close as chinese cases of the coronavirus rise. Infections. New jay powell said the fed will use all tools to defend the economy. Robert caplain said healthcare policies are key to recovery. Indias defense stocks gain after the first deadly clash with china. The first clash resulting in death between the two countries in 45 years. Now we have e. U. Car sales coming out and the drop is substantial as you may expect. 57 is the european car sales drop in may. This comes after the much bigger plunge of 78 in april. Car sales falling by more than half. 57 in may after the 78 plunge in april. Of course that is not unexpected considering the fact that most of the month at least Car Dealerships were closed in many countries in the European Union. Just under an hour away from the start of cash equity tradi ....
Expanding, we can make good decisions about how we use our limited resources to uphold the public good if were clear about our values and if we understand how to make the difficult trade offs. For me, i can promise to continue to update the public to be fully transparent and really to be brutally honest. This is going to be a really, really difficult two years. Perhaps unprecedented in the last 100 years. And the only way were going to get through this is by being honest, by being transparent, by engaging with the public and by coming back to our core values to make the tough choices. So thank you all for joining us. And well be back with more information as history unfolds. Thank you. And good bye. Roll call, please. Clerk all right. Ill go ahead and mention that director chang is sitting in as director haneys alternate. With that [roll call] clerk noting that director tavares is absent, with that, you have a quorum. Were going to change our agenda here in a little bit and start with ....