Make up your. Double made for mines. The euro hits a 2 and a half year high against a basket of currencies investors are bullish on europes recovery from the pandemic that has a strong euro but a strong euro rather has consequences for companies who bring you up to speed. Also on the show major Oil Producing nations agreed to bowl back some of their production pandemic production cuts can they ride an oil recovery or are they acting too soon. And the german state helps Small Businesses survive the pandemic by helping them go online. Welcome to the show. Stephen beardsley in berlin good to have you with us the euro is poised to hit a 2 and a half year high against a handful of rival currencies this week its the latest high point of a month long rally for the currency and it comes as rivals have weakens the European Unions common currency broke the 1. 20 cent mark as Inflation Fears hit the u. S. Economy itself against the pound sterling on fears that brags that brags a trade deal will n
To have you with us a progress in Vaccine Development is lifting spirits as lockdowns continue around much of the world but recent days have shown that Vaccine Distribution could be a weak spot take a look pfizer has revealed that it initially overestimated its supply chain forcing it to cut delivery projection several weeks ago instead of 100000000 doses for 2020 it now expects to deliver 50000000 another concern for distribution is security i. B. M. Saying that hackers have targeted organizations working to improve vaccine cold storage in supply chains in suspects state actors may be trying to steal trade secrets or disrupt distribution of finally vaccine financing is a growing concern with International Aid not yet meeting the amount needed to help poor countries heres u. N. Secretary general antonio terrorists at a special covert 1900 some of the new york. U. S. Dollars including 4300000000. 00 urgently needed for the next 2 months. I think those who have contributed and own to sho
Good morning, it is midnight in beijing its 11 00 a. M. On wall street and squawk alley is live. Good friday morning welcome to squawk alley. Im jon fortt with carl quintanilla. Its the end of cloud week on squawk alley. What a week its been. They have brought news on custom chips, Machine Learning and more sales force announced plans to buy slack for nearly 28 billion in the second largest Software Deal ever. Weve had ibm and microsoft weigh in snowflake and others have turned in blah earnings well hear from the ceo this hour what does it mean for investors already sky high investor malic noijoins us now i cant believe we never had you on squawk alley before i hope this is a trend i want to start with sales force slack. I know that you have known stu butterfield for a long time, even before flicker was a hit. You think this very expensive deal makes sense why . So lets remove the price out of the equation. I think what youre looking at right now is in 2020, we have gone from the idea
Markets. Dow is up 181, 30,150, all three of the averages setting record highs today. Shannon, you have made some very interesting moves in your portfolio, both what you have trimmed and what you have added to first to what you have trimmed apple and microsoft. T tell me why. So really two different stories here, scott. First of all, ill start with microsoft. As i talked about on the show, this is our Largest Holding and remains a very high convince for us we still have a lot of confidence in azure and the endtoend software it offers but from a portfolio perspective, it was time to trim apple, weve seen a significant runup, 75 in the last year and we really feel like a lot of that has come on multiple expansion. Weve gone from about 15 times to about 27 times. Although we do believe in the services storyand the mo monetization, we think there are better opportunities we trimmed back from a market weight to an underweight were going to continue to hold the stock and maybe look for oppor
At their highest level ever. But the best trade may be emerging far away. The eem is far outpacing the s p 500 over the last three months a nosedive in the dollar it is at its lowest level since april 18 is it time to rotate out of the u. S. And look abroad for the next big trade, tim . It seems like it could be a rerun of creating a globe. These are dynamics we havent seen in a long time. If you look at where the dollar is if you are investing in emerging markets, the currency is at least 50 of your return profile and high yielding currency is a driver of this reality but its the turkish and african moneys the blowoff top was around 51. 75. I think you have rates moving higher, but normalizing. Normal high rates for em arent good if you look at the source trade and things moving around the world, some of this is about a global recovery. In some sense at least, the u. S. Dollar and rates will stay lower for longer and thats fantastic for the rest of the world. We may be in the depths o