Good Tuesday Morning welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt and we had losses at the open but were close to session lows. Dow is down. 3 . S p 500 below 3400 the name of the game, jon, q3 earnings really no stimulus headlines to speak of were watching covid19 levels mega cap, m a in the chip space. You know what im talking about. Absolutely. We telegraphed it here it s were going to begin with amd and that 35 billion planned acquisition of xilinx. Its the boldest bet in a remarkable run by amds chief executive officer dr. Lisa su taking over almost exactly six years ago in october 2014. Sue has taken shares of amd from 3 to, what, 79 as of this morning. More than 2,000 rise. Todays deal is another challenge to intel its a push for market share in data centers and just the latest move by sue to turn amd from an also ran into a leader. Hopefully you have got to know me a little bit im all about focus and execution. You know, what we set out the plans for amd over the
A partial lockdown as germany sees an alarming rise in coronavirus cases. For the long wait for world series success is over for the l. A. Dodgers a 31. 00 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays securing their 1st championship win since 1988. So then the voting is underway in tanzanias general election in a poll marred by violence and by allegations of foul play president john michael fully is seeking a 2nd term the government has been accused of cracking down on dissent on tuesday the opposition in the semi autonomous region of zanzibar said at least 8 people were killed during protests over ford. Reports now from neighboring kenya. President John Palmer Marco fully popularly nicknamed the bulldozer wrapped up his campaign in douma the new capital of tanzania some analysts say he is favorite to win and throughout the campaign hes exhibited confidence outlining his achievements in the last 5 years staring clear of accusations that his government has ruled by violently clamping down on critics
Continues to rise significantly in terms of the virus and we talked a lot and well hear from meg again and meg has been following it so closely for us and the market only seems to go up as the cases go up. That is leaving some people scratching their heads and others view it as were going to get to the other side and a view of what the economy will look like and then you come back to the fed, carl, which seems to be the fuel that everybody sort of points to as the key fuel, i should say, for this market. Yeah. Morgan, lots of notes over the long weekend and we hope everybody did have a great, long weekend. More debt and liquidity and asset reflation. That was literally the title of the jpmorgan note on friday. Yeah, for all those folks that were basically still stuck at home or not traveling and getting on airplanes, lots to digest in terms of market commentary over the weekend. I would add to the fed, i would add the expectations that do seem to be baked in around what phase four fisc
Going to prosecute. The governor calls these businesses selfish. President trump goes to pennsylvania on thursday and later on this program, we will have numbers from businesses in states that have allowed a partial reopening and ill tell you now, business is good. Moments from now, we have Shelly Luther with us. Shes the salon owner who went to jail for opening early, an American Hero on this program today. One hour from now, dr. Anthony fauci begins his virtual testimony before congress. Reportedly, he will say opening too early means needless suffering and death. The democrats will try to drive a wedge between dr. Fauci and the president. We will have, by the way, the latest on the explosive revelations coming out about what president obama was doing to instigate and set off the russia collusion mess. Turns out joe biden was in the key meeting. He was asked about it this morning. He did not have convincing answers. The status of joe bidens candidacy, the markets stunning recovery, o
Some things like construction and drive in movie theaters. We are seeing flareups in south korea as well as wuhan, the original epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak. I want to bring in taylor riggs. Walk us through the day. Again, tech boolean the rest of themarket tech buoying rest of the market. Taylor for a few weeks, tech has been the big outperform the dow and s p are still lower. The nasdaq 100, the faang, all of those are the outperformance. Bige are a few individual tech stocks leading those. Amazon, a report that potentially they were in talks entertainment and zoom, the company we have got to know well. People think offices may not open up until next year. Ready to stay home through 2020. Nvidia ended up about 3 . They hit a record high after a raising the price to 3. 60 per share at needham. ,f course, on the data side increased demand for both public and private clouds. That is something that is driving that business. Continuation of tech heavy stocks really are performing