Good morning, carl has the morning off. We want to focus on the state of mna in tech. There has been swings and others that were formally the prey have skyrocketed to valuation thats now give them currency to join the hunters. Between tiktoks impending sale, were seeing now in the second half of the year there is plenty of action still to come. Listen to what bob peck told us yesterday on that front. If you go back to march, it was about two billion. So really it ground to a halt. You saw in june, and it has been a tale of two cities a big acceleration and 3 q over 2q so you have seen a ramping here. People are getting more of a feel on valuation, liquidity concerns, their portfolios, s a strategic rationale and more mna continuing to take place through the rest of the year tiktok is the most talked about target President Trump saying he will not extend the deadline. Oracle is on the hunt to buy it, they didnt talk about it at all on last nights earnings call. We have more on what all
Washington and the world talking, microsoft eyeing an acquisition of tiktok and is this comes after President Trump threatened to ban the app in the u. S. Over security concerns. The president made an about face and gave microsoft the go ahead to proceed with the deal josh lipton has the very latest. So, melissa, President Trump also weighing in here. Take a listen to what he had to say today. It will close down on september 15th unless microsoft or somebody else is able to buy it and work out a deal, an appropriate deal, so the treasury of the, really, the treasury, i guess you would say, of the United States gets a lot of money so, why is microsoft interested in tiktok well, its a wildly popular app with 100 million users already here in the u. S. Engagement trends are strong analysts note that users already spend over an hour a day on the app. Patrick moorhead emphasizes two broad reasons why this could make strategic sense one, he argues microsoft is relatively week in Consumer Ser
Need and it is energy and tesla, paypal, square a lot to talk about. Your traders are not here. But i still know who they are. And the top story has been Energy Following the killing of the iran general on friday and the last couple sessions, the loss has been wiped out because the world is still awash andoff supplied in the price of oil. Weve been speaking to the biggest names about what is going on and why we did not see a bigger spike weve chatted with ceos of chevron, patterson gti, marathon oil, their first interview in more than five years and pioneer will be airing on Worldwide Exchange tomorrow. Lets talk about oil and gas as well speaking of chevron, that stock fell along with oil. Not just because crude oil fell, but because bank of america and Merrill Lynch downgrading to an underperform so guy, are you surprised at like the question we asked every ceo here that the price of oil has not spiked higher given what happened on friday enjoy yourself down there, thanks for invitin
Headlines are moving stocks much higher were going to dig into those. And driving the action this week, media disruption well get the Details Behind hbo max, friday is the launch of appletv plus, and disney plus launches next friday so all of this week on closing bell, were going to take a deeper dive into the strategies, investments, and personalities behind the changes happening in media. Today, well talk to billionaire, ted leansus, the owner of Washington Wizards and capitals about the value of live sports thats all coming up after the bell its going to be a very big show here today and joining us for the hour is stephanie link fr stephanie, it looks like today is kind of steady as she goes, it seems like we have a deescalation of the trade war and fundamentals of earnings actually moving some stocks. You hit it perfectly, actually good start to the week trade tensions seem to be easing a bit. Earnings so far, 50 of the s p 500 have reported. Theyre beating by 2 , i know against a
By. 7 the hang sang was up by 2. 1 the shanghai composite up by 2. 1 in europe right now where there is active trading taking place, green arrows across the board. The biggest gainer is the footsy up by. 8 . Quick check on treasury yields which was so closely watched last week when you saw the temporary inversion in the middle of the day between the 10s and the 2s this morning, 1. 618 the two year is 1. 15 so showing more room than we have seen over the last several sessions. We have a huge week ahead for wall street. Kicking off today, big tech executives testifying at ustr hearings then tomorrow, quarterry lults from home depot, kohls and t. J. Maxx wednesday, fed reports on existing home sales plus reports from lowes target and l. Brands and thursday jackson hole symposium kicks off where, of course, Steve Liesman will be. All leading up to fed chair jay powells big speech which will take place on friday but meanwhile, we want to pivot right now to an update on the big story over th