shopify president harley finkelstein will join us.er, two hot i e pos set to start trading next month. should you invest? but we begin, as always, with what we think are the three most important things investors ought to be thinking about right now. the dow, s&p 500 and nasdaq hit all-time highs this week. supported by hopes for a stimulus deal9 and the promise of a covid vaccine. cloud computing giant salesforce has agreed e to buy slack in a $27 billion deal. slack's instant messaging system will position salesforce to compete with microsoft. warner brothers announced it will release its 2021 films on hbo max at the same time they debut in theaters. on the round table, ben levisohn, carlton english and jack howe. ben, we got pretty weak jobs numbers today, but the market shrugged it off, and everything ended up higher. >> that's right, jack, everything went higher. it doesn't matter if you were maul cap or large cap, the tech-heavy nasdaq or the dow jones industrial average, the market just went higher. that comes down to stimulus.

joining us, harley finkelstein. the sales are still happening. it is cyber monday.t kind of activity are you seeing now? >> we are seeing about a million dollars every minute. about 10,000 orders every single minute across the platform as well. usually when i come on your show, we talk about the merchant perspective. today, because it is cyber monday, let's focus on the consumer side. what we are seeing across the platform is that the center of gravity has shifted definitively. from in-store to online. it is not limited to one particular type of merchant. likee seeing modern brands beyond yoga, parachute, they are doing well. you are seeing large established brands like stetson, staples, also doing very well. you are seeing brand-new companies like noble and daily paper. i just went to a store, workwear, a six week old business that sold 50 products yesterday alone. i think we are seeing that this is a blueprint for the future of retail. emily: normally there is sort of a big pop over thanksgiving weekend, the deals calm down. are you expecting more of a continuous

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