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
Gdp readings are expected to show an 18 rebound from the covid19 fallout. 15 asiapacific nations formally launched the biggest freetrade deal. The accord covers 2 billion people and is a decade in the making. Howi lets take a look at it is feeding through. Havent seen much of a reaction when it comes to the kiwi aussie dollar. We are seeing bond markets the little bit cautious. We are seeing 3 10 of 1 when it comes to trading in sydney. Thirdquarter gdp numbers showing a sharp rebound in japan. We are seeing nikkei futures trading mildly optimistically. That is the picture when it comes to u. S. Futures. Back to thiss get incredible trade deal. After eight years of difficult negotiations, the largest ever freetrade deal has finally been signed. The regional, comprehensive, Economic Partnership includes 15 countries with china, japan, on. Ralia and all of aussie how important is the timing of this considering the damage caused by covid19 . This will be, as trade ministers will say, a bi
Out his vision to drive new Economic Growth and draw hong kong closer to the mainland. Offapple takes the wraps the iphone 12. And pricey. Analysts say it could trigger a new wave of sales. Haidi all right, lets take a look at how we are setting up going into trading, and australia, weakness as expected with equity futures. About 1 10 of 1 . Reasonablethere were earnings out from banks, putting an end to the stalemate and a contention over another round of stimulus with the white house and democrats in disarray over negotiations. The aussie dollar also trading 158, and we heard from the australian treasurer speaking earlier, commenting on the tensions with china, saying the relationship has been challenging but that it is vastly important and a relationship of mutual benefit. We will continue to watch that and others, as well, given the concerns about the import ban when it comes to australian coal into china. Kiwi stocks, modest to the upside. Going from strength to strength. Of cours
The best performing s p at the moment i have my eye on a few techish stocks this morning for different reasons. First box is up better than 5 6 , actually, after earnings an echo of what we saw from sails force. And then, tesla. That stock now well higher than 400 billion dollars in market cap. So you wonder where that one goes it has certainly been a storied stock of the market so far and then along the lines of the idea of reopening disney, trading now where it was about a month ago. The rise of skywalker came out 135 her share, dei rrrdre still down about 6. 5 lets begin with a big tech story of the day tiktok Ceo Kevin Mayer leaving the company. He said in recent weeks as a political environment has sharply changed, i have done significant reflection on what the corporate structural changes will require and what it means for the global role i signed up for. Against this backdrop, and as we expect to reach a resolution very soon, it is with a heavy heart that i want today let you al
Delivering food than transporting passengers for the first time ever. Slightlyes are down after hours. I want to bring it abigail doolittle. I want to start with uber, engagement down 44 . That is the measure of how many passengers they are transporting. What they made in food delivery did not make up for what they lost. Abigail it is an interesting quarter because they beat the estimates but revenues fell for the first time ever. As you were just mentioning, their primary business of ridesharing just not really there. I see get all the time in new york, there are much fewer driven cars out there. They demand simply is not there. Who knows, maybe at least here we will see a little bit of a pickup. But its interesting to see that food did better than ridesharing. It shows you that these companies are trying to adapt to the pandemic. Tmobile put up a big quarter. They beat estimates. They added more than one million subscribers. You were mentioning apple. Nasdaq simplyy keeps climbing. U