Else, stimulus optimism. Pelosi and mnuchin are set to speak again. Airline stocks are up. Plus the race for a cure and treatment for the coronavirus. Shares of regeneron and eli lilly are rallying, both asking the fda for emergency use approval for their antibody therapies. And speaking of surging, look at shares of ibm this morning, moving up on plans to spin off its it infrastructure unit Arvind Krishna and Ginni Rometty will both join us first to discuss this historic move for the company. Carl we are awash in headlines from the president after this 55minute interview. But buried in there are discussions about the progress of stimulus talks and emergency approval for the likes of lilly and regeneron. Look, i think that there is a narrative that were going to start hearing and it was the president s narrative, he voiced it, i know if youre george ancopolous, you dont want to hear it is a cure. You want to hear it is something that is part of a cocktail of things that you need to be
Plus tiktok continues to tick in the u. S President Trump gives his blessing to oracle and walmart buying a 20 stake and shares of electric truck maker nikola tumbling after a firm accused the company of making, quote, an ocean of lies. Jim, theres going to be a lot to process, not just today but all week long. We have 14 fed speakers during the course of the week and powell three times well, look, powell is on the side of those who believe you should be a buyer. Its pretty clear that powell does not want things to collapse a stimulus dealdeal that seems like a thing of the past were down off of something no one understands. Maybe uk lockdown. Thats not us. Maybe madrid lockdown not us this banking story so emamorfs in other words, what im saying is weve been down for three straight weeks, carl the big faang stocks are down double digit this is when you start thinking maybe there is something to buy. Its been so bad for so long and everyone is watching and these things are really going
Then walmarts answer to amazon prime, we will give you a breakdown of what is included an whats not and finally, white house chief of staff mark meadows will join us live, we will talk stimulus, covid19 and the unrest across the nation thats happening toward the top of this hour and you will not want to miss that. Carl kayla, david, guys, everybody is taking stock of the journey we have had not just in august for stocks, but for the past five months, the dow best fivemonth gain since 2009, for the s p the best five months since 1938 and as we said at the top, david, we are heading into historically the worst month not just in general, but especially during election years, september and october have averaged negative returns and we will talk to mark meadows about politics which are increasingly going to be part of the picture here yeah, no doubt. I think you heard it with the last guest who appeared on squawk box at the very end of that show. We are entering what conceivably could be a
Morning. I could go on and on, mike santoli, but when i have you on the program with me why would i bother i might as well send it over to you. Set us up for the action today, particularly given what weve seen there was that rotation earlier in the week, but it already feels like theyre coming back to growth. Rotated, with he unrotated, we will we will rerotate i do think its indicative of this market that has generally speaking hesitated right underneath the all time highs. We are all looking at that its fascinating as sara and i talked about last night on closing bell we would otherwise be saying, oh, its a quiet post earnings august period, markets in a nice uptrend, s p is up 3 month to date, its supposed to be a negative week, everything looks fine, markets maybe just pausing because its had a 50 run in 100 trading days, but because we are on the verge of that number it seems to gain outside significance in terms of people trying to figure out whether thats kind of an end point fo
Forth with portnoy on what you say are amazing insane moves that can continue. Yeah, i mean, understand there is florida has been so much comparison in 1999, 1999 was never like this. You had a lot of crumby companies that would go up a lot but nothing like this. I mean, we have major trillion Dollar Companies that are going up at a pace that weve obviously never seen because we didnt have trillion Dollar Companies before but i do think that my friend David Portnoy hes got a big cohort saying that stocks only go up and im just giving this is frightening im giving a little bit of homage here because, yes, if you got in when davie trade got in, i mean, all youve seen is up. So its not wrong for him to look at that i mean, the guy got in i think march 23rd when he decided to take the suits on directly i got up this morning, i said, geez, maybe i should wear jeans. I dont want to be like wrong. I want to be i dont want to be on the other side of the trade of this guy. His timing is excepti