Good monday morning welcome to squawk squawk im jon fortt with Carl Quintanilla and julia. Were in the final stretch of 2020 were focused on two big ipos, airbnb and doordash. Airbnb is bouncing back strong doordash saw demands surge both of those companies seeing encouraging demand for shares and to define the future of the gig and sharing economies. Leslie picker has the latest on the ipo process. Its important to underscore the rarety of this level of issuance in a single week. Excluding spacs, were expecting to see more than 7 billion worth of ipos this week. Since the start of 2014, only three other weeks have surpassed that kind of volume. Most recently, in mid september there was, if you remember, there was a big week of software debuts unity, jay frog went public. The only week thats saw greater issuance was in may of 2019 when uber went public and then september 2014 when alibaba went public what is different this time, though, is that the billions of dollars in new stock is c
Because we lost control of covid19 today went higher. The the s p gaining and nasdaq gaining 1. 02 . Hospitality and leisure. Has the market lost its mind no we are dealing with cross currents any time stocks get hammered, it seems to trigger visceral vaccine reaction good news bails out. On the one hand we know the cavalry is not coming. It is going to be in the form of at least one, pfizer vaccine, wont reach us until spring. In the meantime the virus is out of control we had 162,000 cases yesterday we are in a rough winter earnings from cisco, the networking type and Applied Materials and walt disney which needs no introduction. It is looking like well have a smooth transition from the Trump Administration to the Biden Administration thats a huge strange and even last week at this time, a notion of trump refusing to make plans to vacate the white house. I am sure you are sick of hearing it could the good earnings continue if you are worried of the virus and encouraged by the vaccine
Bloomberg technology. Lets take a look at the markets on the day. It was a risk on session, of course avenue do with the news out of madera that they have a vaccine that is 94. 5 effective on the volunteers. 500hat news, the s p finishing higher. Some nice gains out of the nasdaq. Moderna itself sharply higher. After the market, we did have news coming from brookshire and s. Her hathawaye berkshire added to their portfolio in terms of health care. Typically, health care a defensive space. With the virus, perhaps these additions have something to do with the virus. Stocks have been down sharply on the day after moderna news about the virus came out. Likingours, investors pfizer as well. All right, abigail doolittle, thank you so much for that round up. I want to get to airbnbs filing. The company disclosing details of its initial Public Offering plans for the first time, releasing Financial Results and previously confidential information on its operations. In ipo search that has largely
Its 11 00 a. M. On wall street and squawk alley is live good Tuesday Morning welcome to squawk ally im Carl Quintanilla markets are seeing a fair bit of chop today as we keep pace with powells comments a few moments ago. Any progress on stimulus and, of course, the president s recovery as he returns to the white house. For that were going to turn once again to eamon javers hi again yeah, hi. What were learning this morning is that a military aide who works closely with the president has now also tested positive for the coronavirus. According to nbc news, the president within the past few minutes also issuing a new tweet saying he is going to the next president ial debate. We have that wednesday vicepresident ial debate and the president is tweeting that he is looking forward to the next president ial debate. He is cleared to travel or optimistic about the plans to travel thursday by october 15th in miami the president saying there it will be great. No word whether were going to see the
They missed estimates by a wide margin the expectation was for over 800,000. And tech stocks are broadly underperforming to day, unwinding yesterdays gains. Amazon, apple, facebook, and microsoft all heading lower. 59 minutes after the session and were down 2 for those names. Power play. Pete . 5 for the s p 500 lets get to the president s diagnosis and impact it could have on a broad range of issues. Were looking at the potential impact on stimulus talks meg has the details on testing at the white house mike santoli tracking what it means for the market lets begin with what we know surrounding the president at this hour. Yeah. What we know is this diagnosis is now upended the president ial campaign a month out from election day the president s Campaign Team put out a statement earlier today saying that all previously scheduled events that involved the president of the United States have now been canceled. What theyre saying is that theyre going to maybe temporarily postpone some of th