. >> take a look at octa or crowd strike, salesforce, jason snipe used to own that. that's giving a nice lift today. they all beat and they all raised and that brings you to the cloud rips today whether it is octa. josh, you can take crowd strike. >> look, my thesis on crowdstrike is not complex. it's one of the better operators in the space. cyber security is not a want, it's a must. anyone that owns a business understands this. anyone who has had their data stolen understands. anyone involved in lawsuits. this must happen and so crowd strike is very good at closing sales and reported the quarter they did even in an environment of software and enterprise tech that there's been a slowdown in decision making. tons of upgrades, tons of price targets going up today. you're talking about a company that beat on revenue, beat on earnings. what else do you want to hear? this is not a stock that's just tripled this year. this is a stock that's been in the penalty box for, i don't know, 24, 26 months. i like to see this reaction in the stock price, and i don't think this is a

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octa. lauren: cybersecurity. shares are up 15% and crowd strike up 7% and both reported strong earnings for crowd strike and earnings more than doubled on the year. both stocks raised outlooks going forward. stuart: solid gains, 14 and 7%. not bad at all. sam bankman-fried's lawyers made a last ditch effort to get him out of jail. lauren: he can't prep for his trial and go through all the documents that he needs to go through, are you ready, because his laptop only stays charged for one hour. he can't get an extension cord because that's considered a weapon in jail and the internet connection is spotty so he's been in jail since august 11, he's previously complained about not getting vegan food and his trial is in october and he's allowed to meet with his lawyers and two times a week and to use the internet, but he wants a fancy computer with a super fast 5g lightning speed internet connection and fancy meals. stuart: why not, he was a billionaire? lauren: i know, trying to live the billionaire life behind bars.

going to be a pretty interesting after the market tonight with crm but also crowd strike and octa and chewy before we get more ekoda at that tomorrow. we'll see if it's as constructive as today. tends to do pretty well after the print according to bofa. >>> welcome to "the halftime report." i'm scott wapner. streaking stocks, the major averages continuing to erase their august losses. the investment committee on what all of this means as the calendar turns to september. joining me steve weiss, bryn talkington, joe terranova, kari firestone. we've been all around the way a little bit today but we are green now and we're at the highest levels since august 10. the s&p 500 was down 5.5%. we're only down 1.5% now. we're scratching and clawing our way back. >> we talked about the other day the most important data point is what's going on with bonds, with the two year and the ten year. and what drives bonds, economic data. the economic data, unlike what the atlanta fed is saying at 6%, we know is not going to happen, is continuing to get softer and softer. this is good news for the economy r

going to be a pretty interesting after the market tonight with crm but also crowd strike and octa and chewy before we get more ekoda at that tomorrow. we'll see if it's as constructive as today. tends to do pretty well after the print according to bofa. >>> welcome to "the halftime report." i'm scott wapner. streaking stocks, the major averages continuing to erase their august losses. the investment committee on what all of this means as the calendar turns to september. joining me steve weiss, bryn talkington, joe terranova, kari firestone. we've been all around the way a little bit today but we are green now and we're at the highest levels since august 10. the s&p 500 was down 5.5%. we're only down

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