Good morning, it is 8 00 a. M. At apple park in coopertino it is 11 00 a. M. On wall street, and squawk alley is live. Good Tuesday Morning welcome to squawk alley. Im jon fortt. Were going to kick things off with apple, just under two hours away from a big event this afternoon where we expect to see a new ipad and a new apple watch. I argue this is the most important launch for those products since their debut why . The environment that were for the ipad it is all about covid productivity people are trying to buy devices for work from home and school from home. They are trying to extend their lead on the tablet space and what about the watch its all about Health Monitoring as people work out from home and now look for additional tools to monitor their vitals during covid. Apple might provide the knockout punch and make things like googles proposed deal for fit bit irrelevant if it was a fortune 500 company, that would have put the ie had alo alone ahead. One star of the show today cou
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Rona romney mcdaniel. Melissa get right to it. Blake burman standing by at the white house where the president wrapped up a celebration for passage of tax reform along with republicans from the house and senate. Blake, what is it like there . Reporter a lot of lawmakers filing out of the white house, a lot of republicans here because this was a massive as the president often likes to say, victory for not only republicans on capitol hill but also for the president , husband first major legislative victory so far in the first 11 months in office. The president had senate republicans, House Republicans along the south lawn behind him here. House Speaker Paul Ryan they touted this as speedy promise kept. No we havent even been a year and we did the largest tax cut in our history. What this represents is a promise that each and everyone of us made to the American People last year, is a promise that is kept today. Reporter now this tax deal for republicans and the president comes after they
With the headlines. Julie we have one item of breaking news, construction spending. Month over month, it is a disappointment. It looks like it is more than made up for based on the revision from the prior month, an increase of 1. 8 , up from 0. 8 . Getsee that the may bar bigger as the june bar is smallre. A strange situation with the isn manufacturing. The numbers coming out early. We saw manufacturing in the u. S. Cooling in july from the highest level in five months. The reading is down from 53. 5 the prior month to 50 2. 7. Guys. Matt thanks very much for that. I want to check out how markets are reacting to that news. Stocks are trading lower. Take a look at the indexes. The nasdaq is up a little bit. The s p is unchanged. The dow is down. We did have an up month at the end of the week last week. Erik i want to point everybody to what is happening in the oil market. Freefalleen oil in a over the past few days. Brent is really pacing declines. This is more of an international bench