Good morning welcome to squawk box. Im becky quick along with yoe kernen and mike santoli. Andrew is off today. Well start things off with the stock futures after some positive vaccine news drove the dow and s p 500 to record highs. Dow giving back some of that ground, down by about 100 point, but remember how far they have marched for the last three weeks. S p is indicated down by about 14 points and then the nasdaq is indicated up by about 12 points. We do have some breaking news from amazon and better that coocoo Bertha Coombs ohas that story they are launching a full Online Pharmacy building on its acquisition of pill pack the new pharmacy is innetwork with major insurers and medicare and patients can pay for their prescription copays with funds from their Health Savings accounts just like they were at any pharmacy and they can confer with pharmacists online or over the phone about their prescriptions. Prime members get free two day shipping, patients who needs meds right away with
Cases, we talk about it every day. We need to im starting, i dont know what youre hearing, im starting to see anecdotal evidence that things are slowing down a bit in the economy. Im getting that too. Im getting people who are saying, i really would want to make a big spend, this is in terms of the big tech spend, for instance, i got to figure out what is going on or when are people coming back, are people ever going to come back . This stay at home versus go back to work, we thought it was resolved, we thought that things it was just a matter of time before you go back to work and those involve big Corporate Capital spending decisions and i think that those decisions are right now on the balance, because people dont know whether this thing is just going to continue to rage. I think we can expect it to continue to rage for the foreseeable future until the vaccine is widely available. There are people people are starting to curb their behavior thats what im referring to, and there are c
144,000, 65000 people hospitalized and we are averaging over a thousand deaths a day. A new round of restrictions would surely slow the economy and put more people out of work, heard even more with travel, retail and Entertainment Industries perhaps, thats one reason the market is selling this morning. After the huge recent gains the dow looks to be down about 200, s p down about 10. Look at the nasdaq with a modest bounce to the upside with the dana may be a quarter of a percent of the standout political headline comes from Bernie Sanders. He says yes, if offered the job of labor secretary in a biting next he would take it. On that, we will say this, varney co. Is about to begin. Stuart born to be wild, well i guess thats fairly appropriate. What you are looking at is rather empty new york city on a rainy thursday morning. Of course, its been half empty for about eight months and Governor Cuomo has more restrictions on businesses. Ashley, bring me up to speed. Ashley he certainly has.
The dow industrial average, remember that apple is a dow jones stock. This loss 220 points roughly at the opening bell, that wipes out yesterdays game. Smp on the downside and nasdaq down about 1 . The loss they are because of tech stocks. The virus is also a negative with severe restrictions on travel and businesses in france, italy, germany and spain. Their resurgence has a stalled not good for us. Youre at home a record i think 882,000 new cases reported yesterday and restrictions are spreading, thats not good for this market. Four days till the election and even joe biden is picking up the pace going to three states today come i will, wisconsin, but will he answer questions about hunter maidan repacking the Supreme Court or the influence the socialist have on his campaign . Politico quoting three sources saying Elizabeth Warren wants to be and is the front runner for treasury secretary. The president goes to three states as well, michigan, wisconsin and minnesota as he frames the e
Facebook, twitter set to report quarterly results. More importantly get a little bit of a sense for the out look of what is a uncertain future. Well hear from some of the biggest names in american business. So lets get to it. Fox Business Team coverage. Lauren simonetti and susan li are standing by. Edward lawrence on the recordsetting Economic Growth i mentioned. Edward in washington. First we have the panel, lance ulanoff, geir i hry b. Smith gary b. Smith, scott, an erin gibbs joins us from gibbs wealth management. It will be a fun hour to go through all of this. Amazon is the big one. Amazons numbers are just coming out. In the Third Quarter, amazon already reported 96. 1 billion in sales in a quarter. That is comfortably above the analyst estimates. They were supposed to be up 32 1 2 it were around they blew through that, looks like. With a net profit of 6 billion. On the eps side, well get back to it in a moment. Comparable to analyst estimates. Then to lauren, probably, scott ma