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Its up about 0. 3 today the dow as we said up over 1 at session highs. The sara crazy to see the s p 500 just wiping out all the pandemic losses the todays show, clorox is a standout winner. Up more than 50 so far this year people stock up on cleaning supplies but can the company keep up with the huge demand for wipes and disinfectants . Were going to talk to the ceo plus, well talk renovations, Small Businesses and more with the ceo of Angie Home Services of that company reporting earnings after the bell. Along with iac, tilray and many more names lets focus in on the big stories that were watching in this final hour of trade mike santoli tracking todays market action. We have the latest on the increasingly complicated stimulus discussion in washington and kate rogers has the details on a scandal involving former mcdonalds ceo steve east easterbrook. Mike, start us off with the Broader Market and the gap were seeing. This is a good illustration of how a broadening out of the market be
The companys intelligent cloud bids that including azure, windows, posted 13. 4 billion in revenue. That beats consensus by a bit. Azure slowing up a bit. Ceo had a question about that and the companys growth on last nights call asked whether or not he is concerned about it my own approach to this would be not to worry as much about shortterm whether or not it is the growth number, im not trying to match an artificial number i think the world will come out of this and it will be stronger when we invest in this space. An ad spending slow down, and they closed that acquisition four years ago right now the Gaming Business had record engagement. People stayed home and they played they call itd a breakthrough quarter for gaming, guys yeah, xbox and surface two were nice surprises. The other big earnings move in tech is twitter. Lets get to Julia Boorstin on that yeah, twitter grew, growing their monetizing value from the year earlier quarter the addition of 20 far exceeded expectations and
Im Andrew Ross Sorkin with joe kernen and melissa lee becky is off again we are about 111 points up now s p 500 looking to open about 11 points higher. Flip is around and show you we are at. 952. Still under the six handle i always wonder what the bond vigilantes are thinking now relative to our little equity world. Worth noting we are still 3 well away from the february record highs some highlights. The ceo of Tractor Supply, auto nation venture capitalist, treasury secretary mnuchin, house leader and twitter ceo. A huge lineup straight ahead thats a big show yeah. You guys always have a big show but this is particularly large. For you because you are here people said, melissa will be on book her i think they wanted to do it for you but i think they were scared if they didnt do it of me thats the feeling they got they didnt want to disappoint you. I doubt it thats nice to say but i doubt it im not a scarey person. Im not. Maybe to you nows this morning out of washington. Reaching Comm
Andrew ross sorkin with joe kernen becky is off again today a little in the red. The treasury yields and earnings that may have an impact on all of this. The 10year note, we are now below. 6 we are down to. 592 we can debate what that means for today. Discussing Market Recovery and earnings Kansas City Southern and United Airlines ceo and health and Human Services secretary you want to stay tuned to squauchl the nasdaq down pretty significantly. It was up two or three hundred. It was up and did you know and up and down. It was really crazy. You heard cramer talking about that it was truly crazy. Insanity. The didnt hold on to the big gains. I think it was down almost 300 when cooperating on that at the end of the day, well see. I heard it said, well, you gave him an out he could have been resting on his laurels by now saying i would at least nuance it so i could claim to have been right if we had extended here. Doesnt it feel extended here. If i were paulson. Fur trying to be right all