We will hear from the head of west coast listings jeff thompson. Lucids desert oasis just finished a listing in san francisco. We will get a picture of supply and demand with first, u. S. Stocks started the month off by hitting records on stimulus talks and covert progress. Salesforce says it will proceed with plans to buy lack for 7. 7 billion to buy slack for 7. 7 billion. Slack prices up, salesforce had dropped. What do we see after hours . Abigail both shares are down. The idea that salesforce. Com would buy slack, now lo and behold, that is happening. As you mentioned, 27 point 7 billion in cash and stock. Some are wondering about the cash piece. Salesforce. Com does have a lot of cash, so using it here for this deal, and i think the bigger thing to take a look at is the fact that salesforce. Coms Ceo Marc Benioff has made more than 60 acquisitions, as you know, in his 21 years, making salesforce. Com the conglomerate of all these different pieces. Now they have this Communication
Welcome to squawk alley. The at Home Technology story continues to deliver big you can see there sonos up 26 this morning after strong earnings want to talk to the ceo in a minute and nvidia also delivered solid results on pc and Data Center Demand beating on both earnings and revenue. Sales up 57 from the same period last year though its lower this morning on modest guidance second biggest gainer on the s p 500 year to date though. Julia, its really interesting how, you know, stay at home stocks maybe suffering a bit but some of the Underlying Technology driving some of that action doing quite well well, jon, one stay at home stock that is not suffering today is roku. That stock up over 6 . Driven in part by the circulation of reports saying that roku could be near a deal with at t to have an agreement for hbo max to be included on roku which would be a big deal and speaking of hbo max, i have to mention that news that wonder woman 1984, the big wonder woman sequel that was scheduled
It will beevie says to salesforce what instagram was to facebook. Planning a new set of chips to outperform intel. What it means in the next generation of macs and more. First, u. S. Stocks dropped monday amid a surge in case of covid19. We are expecting to hear more about the Vaccine Distribution as states try to outline the doses, how many they will get, and one. Lets get to Abigail Doolittle with the latest on how it is played out in the markets. Breakdown that and what is to come this week. Abigail an interesting day we have had big gains on positive vaccine news and this week the vaccine will start to be distributed in the u. K. There is some expectation that will happen next week, but we had a bit of a down day in some of the indexes. We had strength is the nasdaq 100 and other techheavy indexes. The nasdaq 100 up a nice day in a row its longest daily winning streak going back to december, 2019. That strength, emily tesla the stock up 7. 1 , continuing to store up till it will be
New record. So theres hope. Sentiment mixed as Congress Faces a crucial week, folks. It needs to pass a spending bill to avoid a Government Shutdown on friday as well as billions and billions in coronavirus stimulus package to help struggling businesses and americans. Weve got up to the minute details. We are about to take you live to the white house. Meanwhile, college kids now protesting tuition costs, refusing to pay after being forced to learn online during the pandemic. The ceo of Online Education company and online textbook rental giant chegg is here on how this is all coming together when it comes to the actual focus that this company was created upon. Parents and students reducing the cost of higher education. As the year of the spac continuing, this video gamings goto payments processor is going public with the backing of billionaire bill foley. He joins us along with the ceo of pay safe coming live on to the Public Markets today. All right. Lets get to the senate floor, where
Down days for the markets. Right now s p down by about 11, dow by 96, nasdaq off by about 47 we were so close to you dow 30,000 earlier in the week, but that seems to be slipping away a little bit 29,400 and change is where the dow is right now and again, down two days in a row, down again this morning and after yesterdays declines, all three of the major averages are in negative territory for the week a lot of things happening with covid and well talk more about that in a moment, but some of those concerns creeping back into what you see in the markets. If you are looking at the treasury market, the yield on the ten year right now is sitting just at about 0. 852 and the vix also spiking yesterday, probably a little bit on concerns about what happens as we go back into some of the lockdowns. The seesaw of good and bad news on covid. And well give you a bit of good news that happened overnight in the vaccine wars developed by the university of oxford and astrazeneca found to be safe. An