Good tuesday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt and Julia Boorstin on this election day markets are continuing the rally we got on monday were close to session highs right now. Dow is up 665. Best day since june 5th for the dow and s p 500. Best breadth since april 8th nasdaq and s p 500 erased their october loss, jon, as were seeing things like yields go higher as well and the dollar weaken which is another sign that some of the imbedding on emerging markets going out of this election. Yeah, carl. Looking at tech overall and particularly big tech, its interesting the gap between microsoft and amazon lagging behind apple, thats narrowing a bit. Remember, you had apple above 2 trillion in market cap and around 1. 5 trillion now thats come down apple is below 2 trillion those two are still around 1. 5 alphabet lagging all of those year to date so what is surging today tesla is up 5. 5 sales force, cisco, micron, dell, if you look at enterprise space, tho
Instead of diplomacy. And this statement, we must ensure the safety military members. America and the world cannot afford war. Very intense in the nations capitol. Reporter good evening. Iran has kept its word. U. S. Officials confirming to abc news tonight that iran has launched more than a dozen ballistic mefl missiles, base that hosts american and coalition forces. This is video just in from Iranian State tv. You can see missiles striking across the night sky. The targeted air base had already been on high alert, given irans vow to retaliate for the killing of casem soleimani. The u. S. Would pay for the quote, act of war, they said. Mark esper said the u. S. Did not want to start a war with iran but the u. S. Is prepared to finish one. The president in the oval office today also reiterated a similar message, that the airstrike was a retaliatory move against iran. Iran claims soleimani was on a diplomatic peace magnificent diplomatic Peace Mission when iraq when he was killed. We ha
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The governor of fars, in a conversation with khabar, announced that isis claimed responsibility for the attack, and said that the arrested terrorist had a weapon and mr. Mani added that this terrorist intended to close the ranks of worshipers during congregational prayers with volleys. The governor of fars said that the presence of the revolutionary guards forces and mobilization failed the terrorist to achieve his goal. The chief justice of fars also started the preliminary interrogation process of the terrorist person of khabar with the end of the preregistration of applicants for the twelfth period of the Islamic Council elections, 13,234 people on the seventh and last day preregistered and uploaded their documents in the system of the ministry of interior. Thus, the total number of applicants for the parliamentary elections reached 48,1847. This figure is more than 7 and it is half the average registration of the previous sessions of the parliament, in the 11 sessions of the parlia
Highs. If you look at what is happening with the treasury market, this is the one to watch as we get the cpi later this morning. Yields are lower. Tenyear yield at 4. 09. Twoyear yield at 4. 53 . If you have been watching the price of gold, that has hit a new high yesterday. Bitcoin is flat. Just below 7 72,000. Lets talk about the concerns at boeing. Faa saying during the audit, it found multiple instances, many, in which boeing and Spirit Aerosystems failed requirements. Now the report is revealing details of the issues citing materials from the slide presentation that it reviewed on it. Reports said boeing failed 33 of the 89 audits that looked at aspects of the production process. Spirit aerosystems failed 7 of 13 such audits. At one point, the faa observed mechanics using a Hotel Key Card to check a door seal. It showed mechanics applying a liquid dawn soap to the door as a lubricant and cleaning with a cheese cloth. When asked if these were appro appropriate, the representative s