Good morning, it is midnight in beijing its 11 00 a. M. On wall street and squawk alley is live. Good friday morning welcome to squawk alley. Im jon fortt with carl quintanilla. Its the end of cloud week on squawk alley. What a week its been. They have brought news on custom chips, Machine Learning and more sales force announced plans to buy slack for nearly 28 billion in the second largest Software Deal ever. Weve had ibm and microsoft weigh in snowflake and others have turned in blah earnings well hear from the ceo this hour what does it mean for investors already sky high investor malic noijoins us now i cant believe we never had you on squawk alley before i hope this is a trend i want to start with sales force slack. I know that you have known stu butterfield for a long time, even before flicker was a hit. You think this very expensive deal makes sense why . So lets remove the price out of the equation. I think what youre looking at right now is in 2020, we have gone from the idea
Today, Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell said he will take any nominee to the senate floor for a vote. First, i will talk about the markets moves of the day. Abigail doolittle is with us from new york. Abigail a volatile one. You cant go a day without massive swings in the u. S. Sharply lower. The nasdaq at the lows, down 2. 4 . The s p 500, down 3 . At the end of the day, the nasdaq 100, what a turnaround. Led by the mecca cap faang index. The tech index for the s p 500 up about the same amount. In the morning, it did seem like there were some buyers looking. Apple, up 3 . You saw that stock leading another mega cap higher. Confidence as the day went on. Bonds did not rally all that much. The yen was flat. It was not really risk off this morning as a result. Very interesting, one reason to think that they be the buying think that maybe the buying will continue. Ign, all thesecus stocks started out the day lower. Big gains for those stocks. On thers wanting in stocks up huge amoun
Dow down about 30 points though fractional moves if you look at whats working in the trade, its not your Traditional Technology and consumer names its utilities, health care and materials. What is netflix big miss for the growth trade is this a warning shot of beloved technology darling getting too high expectation it might be tactically on the short term but i dont think long term. For you to see a true rotation out of growth into value, you actually need to see Economic Growth and acceleration and a little bit of inflation. While we are seeing improvement in growth, we still have a long way to go. Were definitely seeing the better growth. Look at retail sales, Industrial Production this week every week were Getting Better data whether it lasts or not because of the closure is a big question mark. We are seeing better growth. What we dont have is inflation. Thats what value needs to out perform growth for the time being, i think youll continue to see growth in value as i mentioned, ta
John its just about every day. David did you ever play basketball with barack obama . John yeah, several times. David and is he a good player . John hes a very good player. Could you fix your tie, please . David well, people wouldnt recognize me if my tie was fixed, but ok. Just leave it. Alright. I dont consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on a life of an of being an interviewer even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . So, youve have been doing Value Investing for 36 years. What is a Value Investor . John a Value Investor is someone who is looking for bargains. Were trying to find stocks that are selling at a 40 discount to what we think their private market value is. We want to make sure its got a low p ratio, a strong balance sheet, and has the ability to withstand the inevitable storms that will happen in the stock market. David now
I do not consider myself a journalist. No one else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on a life of an interviewer even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . Youve have been doing Value Investing for 36 years, what is a Value Investor . John a Value Investor is someone who is looking for bargains. Were trying to find stocks that are selling at a 40 discount to what we think their private market value is. We want to make sure it has a low p ratio, a strong Balance Sheet and has the ability to withstand the inevitable storms that will happen in the stock market. David Warren Buffett, is he a Value Investor . John he is the greatest Value Investor of all time. Sometimes people talk about if Michael Jordan is better than lebron james, but there is no question that warren is the best ever. David but Value Investing, as i understand it, is easier done when the markets are down. When the m