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 extravaganza. There were some interesting trends that we saw that were generally pandemic related, where consumers were looking to buy goods that they probably would be buying if th
A. M. At google headquarters in california 11 00 a. M. On wall street and squawk alley is live good tugs morniesday morninm Carl Quintanilla very busy morning in the markets today. We try to get back to 3440 or so q3 earnings a part of the big news stimulus watch, well learn more in the coming hour or two. But were going to begin in washington justice files this landmark antitrust suit against google and we have more on that im still working many i way through this 64page lawsuit that the Justice Department has filed against google in which the department allege thats googlesant w anticompev behave wror is going on for years and still going on and it may be getting worse in the complaint, the Justice Department writes that google entered into exclusionariy agreements including tying arrangements and engaged in anticompetitive lockup and block rivals the Department Says google has taken a page from microsofts playbook to sustain the monopolies and even instructed blows not to use words
The midst of the pandemic. U. S. Stocks rising today despite no new stimulus. Yet, even shares of google. Alphabet shaken off the threats of antitrust scrutiny. Joining us, abigail doolittle. Why would google shares rise on a day that the Justice Department is filing a suit that could threaten to break google up . Abigail not the response you would expect from Investors Committee u. S. Suing alphabet usingcusing it of monopolylike powers. This is not exactly new. Theres been many shots across the bow. We have had executives from many of these Big Tech Companies testifying before congress for a couple of years now. The fact that google is underperforming on the day. At one point, it did dip briefly lower. You could make the case that it is really priced in. The stock price over the time period when we have seen some of the congressional testimony, it has underperformed some of the other Tech Companies, telling you that there could be some idea that investors are not surprised by this. W
Entrusted with getting unemployed americans back to work. Labor secretary Eugene Scalia joins us live. We are going to get the scoop from scalia on how urgent the situation really is right now. Retailers among those of course hit the hardest by the coronavirus pandemic. We have the founder of one of the most visionary Mall Developers in the country. The grove in l. A. , i dont know if you have been there, its one of his. He is here. Caruso founder rick caruso on how hes making his california dream of safely reopening come true. This is a fox business exclusive. You got to see what hes doing. And netflix has emerged as one of the top pandemic superstars. The streaming giant reports earnings after the bell. Our allstar panel digs deep into the numbers with the one number that may tell you the whole story before the Earnings Results even come out. You have to stay tuned for that. But lets get to this breaking fox business alert. Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin seen here arriving at tel
Facebook, twitter set to report quarterly results. More importantly get a little bit of a sense for the out look of what is a uncertain future. Well hear from some of the biggest names in american business. So lets get to it. Fox Business Team coverage. Lauren simonetti and susan li are standing by. Edward lawrence on the recordsetting Economic Growth i mentioned. Edward in washington. First we have the panel, lance ulanoff, geir i hry b. Smith gary b. Smith, scott, an erin gibbs joins us from gibbs wealth management. It will be a fun hour to go through all of this. Amazon is the big one. Amazons numbers are just coming out. In the Third Quarter, amazon already reported 96. 1 billion in sales in a quarter. That is comfortably above the analyst estimates. They were supposed to be up 32 1 2 it were around they blew through that, looks like. With a net profit of 6 billion. On the eps side, well get back to it in a moment. Comparable to analyst estimates. Then to lauren, probably, scott ma