Stimulus watch and of course, palantir, we are awaiting the opening trade set to begin really at any moment. Alex karp, the ceo will join us right here on cnbc immediately following the first trade, jon as we said, its been a long road a lot of filings. A lot to read about the company, voting structure, privacy, you name it. And the Business Model at large. Yeah. And its another big, big ipo but very different from snow flake, which we saw which has a ton of customers, large and small and kind of this very broad play on data in the cloud. This is a company thats dealing with big data and has just a few really huge customers, carl. And thats where well start this morning, jon. Josh lipton has more on what to expect once the first trade happens. Hey, josh. Carl, a master of creativity. That is how Ceo Alex Karp describes his company, palantir. A data miner, its software ahows customers to integrate volumes of data into a central platform where it can then be securely analyzed and interpr
Education arne duncan. We should not be in this situation. Other countries are not. We should not even be talking today. Lost,f thousands of lives the impact on millions of millions of children, education around the country, is extraordinary. It is tragic, there is no easy way to put it. Having said that, on the local level, unbelievable leadership empathy, compassion, urgency. Im talking about superintendents across the country trying to figure out Food Distribution, telehealth, social and Emotional Health during tough times, and yes, education. Horrific leadership at the top and amazing and Inspiring Leadership at the local level. So as a have four kids, parent i am feeling this, my kids are learning remotely as we speak. We are lucky we have access to technology. Still, even i am concerned. What are your biggest concerns about how this could play out . Mr. Duncan on socially, multiple concerns. One is the political pressure could physically open. Open is not to pressure to physicall
What could detail the stocks the s p advanced and the nasdaq climbed 1. 24 . What would make us want to dump the red hot stocks that have been leading us higher i dont see this rally collapsing under its own weight, which is what happened the last time we had an explosive tech rally in 2000. We got ahead of ourselves but the Actual Technology wasnt there yet. We laugh at the. Com casualtiecs the truth is they are ahead of the time it could have been chewy i want to take on the hateful 1999 analogy, remember when it was shot up in 2000. I want to take it on directly. You have to understand why its misleading and constantly brought up and why it makes sense to do so because there are surface level parallels but not that much otherwise. Back then we had two markets, the s p 500 and the go go nasdaq which is a little like today only one of those markets was real the s p. Thats a major difference this time around. Im more confident in todays Tech Companies even if the valuation seems stretc
From facebook. Julia boorstin has been following the story. Its two reactive and slow about the hate speech. Auditors saying they watched the company make painful decisions that are serious setbacks and has not devoted enough assets to address these issues this report advocating they bring in more civil rights experts to the country, take steps to address concerns dedispute that post violating facebooks broader policies. Sheryl sandberg responding to the findings as hard as its been to expos o they echo the criticisms by the civil rights a groups behind the boycott that met with facebook management yesterday. They called the meeting disappointing. Now, facebook has said it would not fall not fold for pressure, but it does seem they could be compelled to take some of the recommendations. Julia, thank you. Lets get to steve weiss steve, it looks like facebook is under a lot of pressure when it comes to the issues of up civil rights and hate speech. It is im sticking with it ultimately i
Pound hole in its bottom line. Auto aid renault struggles to restart production amid faultering demand mixes messages from the hill was fed chair and secretary mnuchin give different assessments of the speed of the recovery they also seek to defend their stimulus measures from accusations they are propping up wall street at the expense of main street. Main street is in a class by it self really. Diverse small, medium and Large Companies different credit needs, some credit based, some asset based. It is a really complex undertaking. A warm welcome to the program. Lets kick off with the top corporate story. Marks and spencer has reported more than 20 decline. The company added that it with also accelerate a restructuring effort aimed at trimming costs during the pandemic. Lets get to steve who joins us outside an m and s store in london theyve been struggling to restructure for years now. Is it going to be different this time around . I hope so a lot of us have an historical knowledge of