And the deal is worth over 44 billion in stock it combines two of the largest providers to wall street and so far 2020s largest dollar wise deal plus, youve seen it on squawk box gm and nikola announce a smaller deal on fuel cell systems doesnt involve equity and well get to more of it why those shares are down so sharply by the way, jim, great to have you back. A lot to catch up on that we missed talking with you about over the last few days as for moderna, another monday here, jim, with 100 on severe and more discussion that come spring we may have nearly ten of these things to choose from. A remarkable moment because it is true this is warp speed and warp speed is run by the army and going to go to longterm care facilities at the same time it is going to go to Health Care Workers and i think the good news here is it will go to a lot of people that no one thought they could get to very early you shotgun the entire level of when you include modrna and dont even talk about j j i think
It is monday october 5th, this is Worldwide Exchange right here on cnbc well, good morning, afternoon and good evening and welcome from where ever in the world you may be watching. Im Brian Sullivan i hope that youre having a good start to your week where ever you may be its a very light data and earnings week on wall street that wouldnt matter much anyway all the attention and focus of the Financial Markets remain firmly on President Trump and the first lady and their help as well thats the key question on wall street right now the help of the president. So that is where were going to have our focus and futures, they are higher by about 141 points the polls right now have swung wildly in joe bidens direction and agree or disagree with the validity of polls and their accuracy, investors see reduced chances of the possibility of a contested election which as we have shown you can send stocks sliding. Theres also more hope for another round of stimulus perhaps closer to the 2 trillion nu
Wechat on sunday. Back to the race for a treatment for covid and a cure, at least a vaccine roche unveils a new Antibody Test and Vice President calls on trump to step down and tech volatility, the s p and the nasdaq aiming for a rebound to end what has been a turbulent week for stocks. So we will start with tiktok and wechat, jim, just listening to you and andrew a moment ago doesnt sound like you see a whole lot of material to salvage this in the next 48 hours. I think that walmart feels like its given everything it can, i think that the people in the private equity have given everything, oracle, difficult to tell whether they think they can do more, but they had really felt that when pretrump it was looking like it was 43 owned by u. S. , 14 by international, chinese own 45 posttrump they are talking about u. S. Owns 53, international owns 11, chinese own 36 i think its the chinese owning 36 is the Sticking Point david, what level do you think the president would allow this deal or
Storm here now insurers bracing for damage claim as millions remain without power along eastern United States it is thursday august 5 on cnbc. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening and welcome from wherever you may be watching thank you for joining us good morning there are so many big stories to get to everything updated it is looking like this one could be too look at that futures could be higher across the board. The nasdaq making a record fifth straight positive day and 30th for the year. Nasdaq up 32 year to date not just technology. Retail surging the sector etf xrt hitting a high since back before the pandemic stocks and bonds go up yields hit a record low. Closing at a record low 0. 5 we are at 0. 525. Truly amazing. Mortgage rates could tick lower again. Gold stays red hot closing above 2,000 for the first time in history. The new nominal record in the past 13 for gold we have a good market stat in the rbi that you can wow your friends with at virtual cocktail parties. Tw
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