Demand under continued pandemic pressure s p global has reportedly put 44 billion on the table to buy londonbased ihs markets and tie up the data giants and mark the largest deal of the year shares jump after the german chip maker confirms advance take over talks with taiwans globwas it could create a leader in the Global Semiconductor space well, good morning, everybody. Welcome to street signs and happy monday it is the start of a new trading week, a week of new possibilities. But before we get into the show, i just want to take you to our main story thats hit overnight, and that is to do with china so, beijing has said that it hopes the u. S. Will not build barriers to cooperation. That was in response to a report that the Trump Administration is preparing to blacklist top chinese chip maker smic and oil major chinook. Washington will restrict access to customers by adding two companies to its list of firms owned or controlled by the Chinese Military according to reuters. Cnooc said
Drop sharp criticism from some, especially the former especially her Inspector General for tart. He has a terrible idea that has been circulating among officials in washington the past few weeks. Declaredsentially Mission Accomplished for programs that have attributed to the recovery so far allowed them to expire at the end of the year. Join us is a partner. Lets take the other side. What if its true . Lets take the money and bring it back to congress and reallocated for Small Business. Thanks for having me on. There are couple of problems with that. This is a backstop. The whole point of these programs was to be available in case things get bad again. Ofare seeing this tsunami virus sweeping across the country and the shutdowns are following it, this is exactly the worst time imaginable to pull the plug on these programs which were so important to stability across the country. The idea this is going to be repurposed for Small Business is nonsense. The bottom line is its going to requi
And solid numbers in tech are not enough to keep investors from selling, dragging down u. S. Equity futures. Good morning. Over the past 45 minutes, we have seen a leg lower across equity futures as well as across the msci asia pacific, even though yesterday wall street did close higher, it was a relatively flat close in europe. S p 500 futures down 0. 9 , and the nasdaq 100 futures extending the losses past 2 this morning. Clearly the stabilization yesterday has not been enough. It has been a difficult week in the markets. The tech overnight did not meet expectations. Apple down more than 4 in afterhours trading. It was about expenses and costs for apple in china. Twitter extending losses more than 17 in overnight trading. For investors. Alphabet, one bright spot in big tech, up or than 6 . U. S. 10 year yields at 80 basis points. This was the close yesterday for the german bund market as well as the 10 year italian btps. Christine lagarde gave a clear signal more stimulus is on the w
Americans are watching on television as well. San francisco was the sight of the signing of the american charter. It is an appropriate place to hold this debate, the subject of which is foreign and defense issues. The questioners tonight are max frankel, henry trewhitt, and richard valeriani, Diplomatic Correspondent of nbc news. Rules are the same for the first debate. Questions will be alternated between candidates. Governor carter will take the first question. Each question sequence will be as follows. The question will be asked and the candidate will have three minutes to answer. His opponent will have two minutes to respond. Prior to the response the questioner may ask a followup question to clarify with up to two minutes to reply. Each candidate will have three minutes for a closing statement at the end. President ford and governor carter do not have it prepared remarks with them this evening but they may take notes during the debate and refer to them. Mr. Frankel, you have the f
Francine, went up 15 . That was the kind of move we saw. Last night, and a lot of people missed this in america, exhausted from the election, we nestor8 00 or 9 00 p. M. , barr making these statements. I would suggest this mr. Barr mr. Barr making these statements. He was extremely careful. Every word was chiseled out. For me the headline is the 20year veteran of this under election crimes, mr. Pilger, a herk to james moody, resigned. To me that is the real headline. Francine it is a huge deal and we are trying to figure out what this means for the Republican Party and the strategy possible there. Stephanie baker says it could have something to do with the Senate Election in georgia. We will have plenty more on that. Lets get to first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika President Trumps attorney general, william barr, will let the Justice Department investigate potential voting irregularities in the president ial election. But barr has acknowledged there is no conclusive evidence and w