Report help to boost sent men this morning with the u. S. Economy adding 638,000 jobs in october. The Unemployment Rate fell to 6. 9 the coronavirus surge remains in focus, the u. S. Setting a record with more than 121,000 cases on thursday according to Johns Hopkins data 59 minutes left of the session in what has been a crazy week. Today though essentially flat, sara. Holding onto the gains i would argue, which are very strong so far this week. Ahead on todays show we will ask jeff sonnenfield how americas Corporate Leaders are thinking about the heated election race. Big news out of cvs as larry merlo announces hi retirement. We will also speak with the ceo of hershey asking about how cappy sales fell during this years unusual halloween season. Lets get to the final hour of trade, the markets and the election mike santoli tracking all the action for stocks. Frank has the vote count in pennsylvania ylan moi is covering the balance of power in the senate how georgias undetermined races
Good tuesday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with Morgan Brennan and jon fortt live at post 9 of the New York Stock Exchange we begin with text stocks this morning and the continued rally in the sector, another record close, apple, facebook, and alphabet at alltime highs Jeff Richards joins us now along with james lee guys, good morning good morning. Good morning. Thanks for having us so james, im looking at tech stocks up more than 30 in just the last three months. A short list apple, tesla, amd, snap, spotify, zillow. You like facebook and byedo in this market, but how much can you like some of these names given how quickly they have run up yeah. Jon, that very good question we think valuation right now is still very attractive. Look at facebook coming to the year, a lot of investors are very concerned about regulations. I think as we get into the year, a lot of people getting more comfortable because some of the regulatory issues or policy that happened over th
Maker soaring today. Now up almost 90 this year. The stock just got a huge upgrade. Its our call of the day Halftime Report starts right now. Welcome good to have you with us our Investment Committee at the table, joe terranova, the brothers are here, and meghan is here as well, Senior Investment strategist at the wilmington trust. One of the best performing large cap tech stocks of the year, microsoft. Beating on earnings and revenues the shares are moving higher pete najarian, everybody owns it at the desk. You get the first crack because youve been the biggest and longest believer. I continue to be a believer this all started with it went in the right direction what has he done we talked about how great the focus has been on cloud but the monstrous acquisition they made with linkedin everybody was critical about and that is starting to be another one of those verticals we talk about when we talk about names like apple and other names we talk about what are some of their areas they w
With a Record Number withdrew from the intermediate of wildfires raging Nuclear Forces treaty, which dates from the cold war. Across the amazon, there is mounting alarm worldwide. Brazils president has said his government lacks south korea has terminated its intelligence sharing the resources to fight the fires, pact with japan the latest and Jair Bolsonaro has accused other in a tit for tat dispute that has countries who give money to preserve damaged the two countries trade the rainforest of doing so, and diplomatic relationship. Recently japan has removed not for charity, but to interfere south koreas favoured trade Partner Status and imposed export controls with brazilian sovereignty. On its Important Electronics sector. The tensions date back to a dispute the president has for the first time acknowledged that farmers in the amazon are starting over reparations for japans fires to clear land. But hes also accused non governmental organisations. Conservationists blame his occupation
Shes worse than you are you are like. I cant believe it ringback. Come on up lets go. Mr president can i just ask you questions its a good reference im sure you have recently been saying that china wants to make you think you are not going to be very angry. Now but he said then thank you thank you please sit down. You respect you very much youve recently been saying that china wants a deal but youre not necessarily ready for a deal and you like the tariff revenue that is coming in are you now ready to make a deal only of a fair deal and a good deal for tonight as states otherwise i will not make a deal we have been dns and billions coming in and i think were going to get there i do i believe it more strongly now that i would have believed it a while ago were going to get there and were going to have a really would have a fair deal but remember this when you say fair china has been taken out of this country 500. 00 plus 1000000000. 00 a year for many many years many many years it was ti