Good thursday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Im jon fortt with carl quintanilla. It is cloud week on squawk alley. If you were betting against snowflake, wur oyoure out in t cold this morning. That stock up is 12 same for Cloud Security and authentication specialist okta were going to talk to the ceo to see if this thing may stabilize from here or go higher splunk, that is the sound of a cloud stock dropping 22 after missing Sales Guidance for the third quarterer in quarter in a row. All this happening as amazons cloud conference is in full swing. Salesforce announced the second Biggest Software acquisition ever and we started the week on squawk alley talking to ibm president Jim Whitehurst who came to big blue in what and is still thelargest Software Acquisition ever redhat driven by a hybrid cloud. Julia, investors are betting on further growth from already heady levels we can certainly see that in what is happening with snowflake this morning it is reapproaching the highs that so
And only talk about the virus, the vaccine developments, when there is not much thats new. Why do this at all on a friday evening . I cant answer that. Its good to get out of the house, i guess. Been announcement about pfizer come a couple of weeks earlier, which to be clear, doesnt appear the science would have allowed, im sure we would be talking about a different political landscape. Even with that bad timing. It is certainly an achievement for this administration to have been able to help accelerate some of these vaccines, like the vaccineng moderna into the final stages, and hopefully the level of emergency approval and access to the American Public by the end of the year. That remains a very big deal if it does go that way. Emily can you clarify for the record what pfizers involvement was in operation warp speed . They did not get money from the government, saying they misrepresented the involvement. What do we know to be the truth about that . Question, andeat its important we c
The nasdaq is testing the lows hit during last weeks threeday selloff that sent it into a 10 correction. Any more than a 206point loss for the nasdaq and we right now are down 212, so yes, we are now deeper into that correction territory. We knew the pandemic absolutely crushed the travel industry but now booking holdings, forced to take a draconian step ahead of the Holiday Travel season in order to stay alive. The ceo of booking is here to tell us if hes at least starting to see a shred of light at the end of a very long lockdown tunnel. Plus we are on the ground in florida after the aftermath of Hurricane Sally. A money manager to sports star shares his covid stock picks. And new evidence of a coming coronavirus foreclosure disaster. Less than an hour to the closing bell, lets start the claman countdown. Liz weve got to get to the hottest software ipo of all time. It is now getting iced over, with about 59 minutes left to trade, take a look at snowflake, falling hard after yesterday
Realize that this lawns full of weeds and dead grass and bugs and a golf ball okay, this is what the market is really about not this, but this see how the averages rallied again today, the dow inches up 47 points, s p advancing 2. 3 . The nasdaq gaining 1. 06 but almost 3 5ths of the stock in the s p 500 are actually down for the year were in high territory because of the other 2 5ths up a lot heres the real economy. The truth is, the weeds are more representative than the healthy patch of lawn, and in many ways its getting worse, not better, as the weeds begin, i think, to infect the nice part but when you look at the whole s p, you cant see the weeds you see, theyre obscured by Tech Companies with big gains. Who wants to talk about the other 291 stocks that are down for the year when you can focus on the incredible runs in amazon, microsoft, apple, facebook, alphabet its a lot more fun talking about tesla, up 378 than talking about gm or ford down 27 and 21 . Tesla has about 50,000 e
Deal on a fifth coronavirus stimulus. Thats what charles and i were just talking about. Can they beat the clock before time runs out and 32 million americans unemployed are left with a loss. Speaking of wins and losses, the nfl bending to what appears to be a coordinated tweetstorm involving nfl allstars from jj watt to Patrick Mahomes who want to know the leagues Virus Testing plan. The social media blitz over the weekend and efforts to pressure the league to pull off a covid19 safety ahead of nfls kickoff. Jarvis green of the new England Patriots joins us on what the players really want and whether they will even get it. From the gridiron to the front lines, we have the publicly traded smart Glasses Company transforming how First Responders do their jobs. Paul travers on techs role in the covid19 fight and why new competition from, of all companies, apple, is not darkening his outlook. Plus the twitter hack heard round the world. What cybersecurity guru ping is doing to protect the i