Welcome to squawk box. Im Andrew Ross Sorkin along with joe and melissa lee, becky is off the s p looking to open about 12 points higher. Well explain why some of this is happening and lets show you treasury yields as well the ten year note right now looking at 0. 931 . But maybe a little bit of an explanation coming up here, melissa . Yeah, some optimism Mitch Mcconnell said that compromised deal was within reach and well get a live report from washington at 6 30 a. M. And we heard it before, but it seems like btoth sides are comig a little closer. On a much lower number. And im just thinking about, i dont know, andrew, what did we do to deserve this i mean we are living right or i mean, who ushered in the new week on squawk box on monday who is helping us usher out the week that was on squawk box . A monday and a friday. Is this46 w was this planne melissa, what did we do to deserve this not wouldby not by me how long has it been, stimulus vaccine i guess the election, although we do
And only talk about the virus, the vaccine developments, when there is not much thats new. Why do this at all on a friday evening . I cant answer that. Its good to get out of the house, i guess. Been announcement about pfizer come a couple of weeks earlier, which to be clear, doesnt appear the science would have allowed, im sure we would be talking about a different political landscape. Even with that bad timing. It is certainly an achievement for this administration to have been able to help accelerate some of these vaccines, like the vaccineng moderna into the final stages, and hopefully the level of emergency approval and access to the American Public by the end of the year. That remains a very big deal if it does go that way. Emily can you clarify for the record what pfizers involvement was in operation warp speed . They did not get money from the government, saying they misrepresented the involvement. What do we know to be the truth about that . Question, andeat its important we c
Highs of the s p 500 all the way to certain cases of covid to a fight between the fed and treasury and condemn it really money and pandemic relief money. We got progress from moderna and pfizer, making impressive headway for a vaccine. Trumps Campaign Still unwilling to concede the election. All of these headlines causing a tugofwar in the markets between longterm fears and hopes. These five days, we are trying to work out where to place our bets. Joe yeah, thats exactly right. As you mentioned, we hit record highs at one point this week. Today, not much going on. Despite optimism in some markets and more vaccine news, if you look at longterm yields, look at that. U. S. 10 year yield back down to. 82 . We were talking about will it break one . I do really feel as though we look at this economy, perhaps we will struggle a little bit over the next several months and it is going to be a very long time until we see any kind of rate lift off. Romaine it is interesting. You are now getting i
And local mayors criticize Boris Johnsons traffic light system for his chief medical officer says the plan does not go far enough. Down on itses streaming business, taking the fight to netflix. We bring you our interview with three weeks,ithin we will have a new u. S. Election. President trump returns to the campaign trail to fight that fight in florida. I am trump now they say immune. I feel so powerful. In there and kiss everyone in that audience. Guys and thehe beautiful women and everybody. I will give you a big, fat kiss. Matt we are just under an hour away from the start of cash weity trading in europe and are getting german Economic Data here. You take a look at your , you can see the cpian september harmonized wasnt dropped. We are not getting the inflation that the ecb wants to see here. You can see the futures picture is a little bit mixed. You do see euro stoxx 50 futures down. We see gains on ftse futures of , gains on dax futures are just fractional. But most European Equi
Closing early is not good. It is extraordinary. The difference versus what we have got here is absolutely extraordinary. Francine on the lockdown, it basically gives you a kind of a benchmark, code red, code rain, code yellow, to get a sense of what you code green, code yellow, to get a sense of what you need to do. They are trying to make it simple, but we are not even 24 hours until forest johnson made that announcement. Tom Jacob Sharfstein of Johns Hopkins, we talk to him two times a week, the lead quote today in the Washington Post be inoat it is real simple the Washington Post. It is real simple. Were just waiting for a vaccine. Leighann President Trump says he feels so powerful after recovering from coronavirus. He wants to walk into a crowd and kiss everybody. The president spoke at a rally in florida. His first stop since his return to the campaign trail. There was little social distancing at the event, although some spectators wore masks. Supreme Court Nominee amy coney onret