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
Welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla Julia Boorstin and jon fortt are with us for the hour the dow session alone was down 236. Were slightly off that s p 500 is off the early lows as well zoom helping to lead the nasdaq 100, john. Looking forward to disney and cisco earnings to night. That is definitely true, carl the big themes, protect investors today. Number one, game on. The play station 5 from sony is shipping and in stores as of today. Joining the x box series x this marks the start of the biggest console refresh. Really the only major console refresh in seven years its happening during pandemic lockdown and then youve got china. I mean coming off of a record breaking singles day where the chinese Online Consumer is flexing. We have to think about that exposed deadline for tiktok to do a deal in the u. S. For those assets i dont know if the president is interested in shutting down tiktok anymore fair to say his attention is elsewhere. Thats right, jon today was the day wh
Data from the late stage kile of its Covid Vaccine and could reveal that data on how things work very soon were keeping our eyes on shares of southwest the airline saying it sees a deceleration in revenue improvements for the rest of the year, carl jim, well start with the balance between these covid numbers and the expectation that winter is going to be tough. But got to say some of the encouraging headlines out of curavac today saying that this might not be something we need every season because the mutation peers less frequent and more stable at basically refrigerator type temperatures. Look, im convinced that the people evolinvolved in this, i n well get good news from all these companies. Havent stopped the times. I expect good news from moderna. I expect good news from j j. I speexpect good news from glaxs behind, but astrazeneca. Here is the problem, carl, i keep thinking what happens, when do we get it when do we go to walgreens and just get it . And will everybody get it . I j
Good tuesday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt and Julia Boorstin on this election day markets are continuing the rally we got on monday were close to session highs right now. Dow is up 665. Best day since june 5th for the dow and s p 500. Best breadth since april 8th nasdaq and s p 500 erased their october loss, jon, as were seeing things like yields go higher as well and the dollar weaken which is another sign that some of the imbedding on emerging markets going out of this election. Yeah, carl. Looking at tech overall and particularly big tech, its interesting the gap between microsoft and amazon lagging behind apple, thats narrowing a bit. Remember, you had apple above 2 trillion in market cap and around 1. 5 trillion now thats come down apple is below 2 trillion those two are still around 1. 5 alphabet lagging all of those year to date so what is surging today tesla is up 5. 5 sales force, cisco, micron, dell, if you look at enterprise space, tho
Suspending ant Group Listing major issues, this is days before the largest ipo of all time well give you the latest details. And social Media Election strategies how facebook and twitter aim to tackle misinformation on their platforms as voters head to the polls and beyond whatever beyond means, carl. David, thanks guys, were going to be talking all day and all night about arizona, florida, georgia, North Carolina, jim, goldmans got a note out just now saying because it would be difficult if the president does not win any of those states, quote, there is a good chance the election outcome will be clear on election night. Right, i think that thats what the market is saying. So the collectionive voice of the market, both yesterday and not just the morning, but when the nasdaq rallied in the afternoon and today with the futures, people say, we cannot afford after last week with the market being down, we cant afford to wait for the outcome we have to presume the outcome is going to lead to