Good thursday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. With Morgan Brennan and jon fortt at the New York Stock Exchange we watch the markets being whipped by some of the trade headlines. We also have two big ipos in focus today as well. We await the first trade of smile direct club. Lets bring in bob pisani to talk about that and overall iep landscape. We heard valuation is not there, does this mean the ipo market is overrated. Slack, first earnings report, growth wasnt as strong as people thought, not a good idea, growth is not as strong. Some software companies, now theres jitteriness. This week we had three big names, all being upsized waiting for smile direct to open 19 to 22 pricing at 23 looks like and ten x genomics. Upped it to 38 it opened at 54 talking little more than a week ago, 31 to 35. We open at 55 a gene sequencing company, biotech is a hot space overall we wait tomorrow for cloud fair. Another software company, out there, Website Security and other things, was 10 to 12, 35 m
And be seen as like part of it and the. Were sort of cast off fly over country but i just want to ask one thing about a point that is often asserted in connection with Political Attitudes and support for the f. T. Namely the idea that it reflects the communist area era socialization of order germans and even a kind of nostalgia for an easier time do you think thats true yeah definitely and i also think that germans werent good democrats in the fiftys they werent good democrats in the sixtys they had the economic wonder thats the tough one and thats how that went on until the seventys and so thats how they became democrats of because the u. S. Forced it upon them and then they had a good good experience with demarc democracy so its stuck sort of you know to put it in a nutshell but and that didnt and that didnt happen in eastern germany obviously they got all this money they got all this restructuring of infrastructure of streets and so forth but they didnt have the experience and they
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President harris, First Lady Jill Biden and former first lady of california, maria shriver. [hail to the chief plays] [cheers and applause] greetings, everyone, and happy womens history month. [cheers and applause] to our incredible president , joe biden, who of course we all know is a tireless fighter for the safety and wellbeing of women, to our first lady, dr. Jill lifelong champion for Womens Health research, to the first second gentleman of the United States h who has been a powerful advocate for gender equity, and to the and all the extramarital extraordinary leaders and i will come to maria later. [laughter] it is an honor to be with all of yo this month and every month, we honor the women who shaped our nation and our world through their vision, courage, determination, and incredible skill, and upon whose broad shoulders we all stand. As many of you know, my mother was a scientist, and when she began her career only 7 of science and engineering phd graduates were women, and eve
And thanks for joining us on c span. American history tv beginning now. Its our special series on speeches that defined a presidency. Well, harry truman took up fdr mantle when the nations longest serving president died suddenly in april of 1945. Truman was elected in his own right in 1948, and during his tenure, he oversaw the end of World War Two. But now he presided over the beginning of the cold war. Heres president truman at his january 20th, 1949 inauguration, a time, he said, of grave uncertainty. Inaugural day washington, 1949, the biggest inaugural in United States history is ready to begin. Last line, pennsylvania avenue, soon to be the main artery of president following the triumphant parade. Railroad yards of jammed is more than half a million visitors from every state in the union brought to washington on his birthday. The Inauguration Day. Early morning spectators have been at their places along the parade route. Walkers by their aware their opponents and buttons honoring