What it is, and why it is wreaking so much havoc for social media companies. And it is halloween eve. Night. Iller, but triller we will have the executive chair of the social media platform sued by tiktok. Those stories in a moment. Also this hour, we will be speaking with the ceo of overstock. Com on supply Chain Technology ahead of the busy retail season going into the holidays. Later, i will have an interview with the ceo of blue apron, which reported results yesterday. Dropping, u. S. Stocks capping their biggest weekly route since march after tech earnings disappointed investors concerned the slowing economy will dampen assets. Lets get to Abigail Doolittle in new york. It was a crazy week just ahead of the election. Walk us through your roundup. Abigail yes, it was a crazy week, a wild week. Two down weeks. That is another piece of the story that the bears have been at it last part of this month. The nasdaq today not surprisingly with the text selling that you were alluding to re
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
If we can bring the board up. Gold up 0. 2 . A lot of Market Participants looking at the Earnings Results and european stocks. Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news. Hi, laura. Thanks. Global coronavirus cases have topped 15 million. The u. S. , india and brazil account for nearly half of all confirmed infections and fatalities. Texas reported its biggest daily number of deaths. Australias budget deficit is set to hit a post world war ii ecord. The deficit will be more than double what it was the past year. It comes amid a surge in spending to mitt gate the impact of the virus on the economy. There are still some challenges times ahead. We continue tonight the decisions to provide support in the economy. We do have to get back into situation revival. The employees on their own income rather than rely on taxpayer support. Francine italy funding to rescue the economy hit by the pandemic. Bloomberg has been told the extra money will be used to help businesses and provide subsidies
Good morning welcome to squawk box here melissa lee is hanging out again with us. Becky is off today for some welldeserved vacation well see her next week. As joe said yesterday, one of the first down days weve seen in a while a little better s p up about 13 and nasdaq looking to open about 45 points higher also showing you treasury yields now you can see where those are standing well flip that around to. 628 on the 10year you thinking about refinancing a mortgage anytime soon, guys . Im as low as they go im good if you have an account where you can use assets for credit line or to make an investment or Something Like that, i remember two or three years ago, i locked this ridiculously low rate if they come to me again and offer another one, it will be lower than it was last time. It was like 2 or 1. 5 when you get money that cheap, dont you think you you are in the drivers seat when rates are this low i dont feel bad about borrowing money at rates like that so you are talking about get
Give credit to Senate Republicans who let the president off the hook with at most, and only at times, a polite slap on the wrist. Thank you, mr. President. Mr. President , i comet, to the floor today to discuss the House Democrats 3 trillion spending spree. The American People are at a point in our lives, American People need a life preserver. Instead, Speaker Pelosi has just thrown them in and will. Its absurd, mr. President. Her covid19 proposal is pricey, partisan, and its a pipe dream. Its a bloated bonanza of oliver leftwing socialist projects. It weighs in at over 1800 pages but theres one glaring omission. La House Democrats forgot to help fight the coronavirus. This bill is Nancy Pelosis socialist democrat dream but it is a nightmare for the American People. Nancy pelosi needs a very serious reality check. The far left fantasy will never become law. It cannot pass the senate. The country is trying to recover from the coronavirus. People are stressed. Theyre. Theyre struggling.