Up 95 points. The dow better by 393 points. Perhaps on investor belief that the worsening pandemic will shake congress fists open leading to, perhaps, the passage of a relief package. But as millions rush to get tested, rapid covid testing suddenly under fire from billionaire Tesla Ceo Elon musk who claims he took four tests with confusing results. So were bringing out one of the breakout stars of the netflix dock you series pandemic, dr. Jacob glanfeld, what he wants to hear from the president as the development of a covid19 vaccine inches closer to reality. And the coronavirus isnt elon musks only problem. Theres a new player on the electric vehicle front carving out its own ev beast face. Yes, thats right, the ceo is here in a fox business exclusive. Yes, the company is publicly traded. Well tell you who it is. All right, but first a fox business alert, just as americans rush en masse to get covid tested this hour, teslas ceo, elon musk, is on the attack. Did you see what he treat t
Thank you very much. I was just talking about a thawing for the markets. Yes, earlier today, we did hear that of course, stimulus talks would be in play and that we started to hear some Smoke Signals between nancy pelosi and of course, we were talking about trillions of dollars could possibly be pouring into the economy. Shes speaking with treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin. But apparently now Mitch Mcconnell as he just heard is pouring cold water on that, or maybe hot water because we were starting to see some real action here. Now, movement on a spending deal quickly erasing at least the bad taste in some of the mouths of some investors after last nights debate performances by President Trump and joe biden. Fox businesss lou dobbs calling it the worst debate hes ever seen. Lou is about to in join us live. Hes been crafting his unique debate analysis. He will give it to you even before he gives it on his own show tonight. Stay tuned. Hes coming right up. Meanwhile, this latest Silicon
Is live. Pump up the jam good friday morning welcome to squawk alley. Markets still in the green pinning hopes to stimulus talks. Were watching headlines best week so far this morning, jon, in two months for the dow yeah. And in tech this morning, carl, hey, weve called it out here on squawk alley before. Today amd eyeing xilynks amd is a 100 million market cap down 3 on a 30 billion deal. Investors are giving this blessing a few different trends here. A hot of Tech Companies have richly valued stock to play with there is pressure to answer and three u. S. Restrictions are hurt something chip makers like xilinks and theres no end to that in site good morning, guys pat, are you surprised not a the hoff overlap here. So in that sense, maybe this deal isnt at risk but, hey, not a lot of overlap here. So maybe this is risky the. Yeah. The so as you said before, amd needs to grow. When i look at valuation, im sure stacy will will weigh in on this, it had to do something organic growth isnt
Day event. Our new betting week close there, never to be seen again, perhaps . Barstool sports has put Penn National gaming stocks firmly in the lead, but nearly a month after its recordbreaking rollout, whats the next may for Penn National gaming whose stock surged 153 year to date . Penn national Ceo Jay Snowden is here in a fox buzz exclusive. Plus business exclusive. Plus, weve got the woman who traded Silicon Valley for the heartland and now has her homegrown products flying off amazons digital shelves. But first, we begin with a fox business alert here. Investors are pulling back the reins on workhorse at this hour after it gallopedded ahead at the opening. Take a look at the utility maker. It secured about 200 million in funding from institutional lenders in the form of senior secured convertible notes due in 2024. So you can see where we opened, above 30 a share. Right now were at 27. 05. So really pulling back, and possibly just getting to the flatline from where it closed on
They missed estimates by a wide margin the expectation was for over 800,000. And tech stocks are broadly underperforming to day, unwinding yesterdays gains. Amazon, apple, facebook, and microsoft all heading lower. 59 minutes after the session and were down 2 for those names. Power play. Pete . 5 for the s p 500 lets get to the president s diagnosis and impact it could have on a broad range of issues. Were looking at the potential impact on stimulus talks meg has the details on testing at the white house mike santoli tracking what it means for the market lets begin with what we know surrounding the president at this hour. Yeah. What we know is this diagnosis is now upended the president ial campaign a month out from election day the president s Campaign Team put out a statement earlier today saying that all previously scheduled events that involved the president of the United States have now been canceled. What theyre saying is that theyre going to maybe temporarily postpone some of th