Good morning. Welcome to squawk box. Andrew ross sorkin with joe kernen and melissa lee becky is off today well go straight to show you how the markets are reacting on the back of that news. S p looking to fall 60 points. The biggest premarket decliners on the you dow looking at boeing, intel and apple off in some cases more than 2 or 3 eamon javers has been covering this story all night and joins us now with the latest good morning. Some very tough news for the president , the first lady and their family as the president and first lady have tested positive first, there was a report of bloomberg that hope hicks, the campaign aid to the president , travels with him a lot, tested positive she was seen traveling with the president on air force one, often photographed without a mask as with we watch some of those pictures of hope hicks traveling with the president a lot of the senior aids there shortly after 1 00 a. M. East coast time sending out a letter saying the president and first lad
Underestimate senator mcconnell and his ability to corral maybe as many as 20 republican senators who believe that we have a vshaped recovery which of course is what President Trump has been saying. Its the senate that we look to, i think all discussions between secretary mnuchin and Speaker Pelosi have not borne fruit. One of the things i think they havent borne fruit because the republicans simply are not in favor of giving the states money. Speaker flossy wants to give many different businesses and states money because they are all strapped will this matter to that i dont think so i wish it would, i mean, in business i think it would, but not in politics. I feel, david, when i look at these numbers and i look at whats happened to the president , of course, we wish him well, i think that somehow nothing comes together in washington that you would think. Theres not a kind of a sympathetic lets get together, lets stop the war of words. It just doesnt happen like that anymore. No. There
Forth with portnoy on what you say are amazing insane moves that can continue. Yeah, i mean, understand there is florida has been so much comparison in 1999, 1999 was never like this. You had a lot of crumby companies that would go up a lot but nothing like this. I mean, we have major trillion Dollar Companies that are going up at a pace that weve obviously never seen because we didnt have trillion Dollar Companies before but i do think that my friend David Portnoy hes got a big cohort saying that stocks only go up and im just giving this is frightening im giving a little bit of homage here because, yes, if you got in when davie trade got in, i mean, all youve seen is up. So its not wrong for him to look at that i mean, the guy got in i think march 23rd when he decided to take the suits on directly i got up this morning, i said, geez, maybe i should wear jeans. I dont want to be like wrong. I want to be i dont want to be on the other side of the trade of this guy. His timing is excepti
Coming off a fiveday win. A lot of the stocks in the nasdaq are for companies that do better in covid era. Remember, weve got many, many institutions with 80 to 95 of people working home. They require a gigantic change in the supply chain of work. And the supply chain of work is just generated a remarkable new wave of the cloud, of hardware, of software, and the companies that are really rallying for the most part are companies that do fabulously when you have to create new factories the factory is in the home theres a look at steve mnuchin. Well talk to him in a few moments. A lot over the weekend, whether it was mnuchin, kashkari, prepping us for the idea that the worst of the impact is still to come, even after that jobs number on friday which we didnt have you with us to discuss. Here we are i wanted one thing to be normal in my life Everything Else has changed like so many of us. I questioned the notion that this month will be worse we are hearing too many people who are reopening
Anticipated jobs number. What it means for the economy and markets. Shares of apple are up after they reported earnings after the bell of the well dig through the report and hear why tim cook is calling for a huge quarter on deck well go live to the long long lines of customers waiting for new iphones. And shares of starbucks under pressure after a less than stellar quarter. Well talk to Kevin Johnson and cnbc exclusive along with the 261,000 nonfarm jobs in october, significant upward revisions including september payrolls up 18 k after the initial readings showed a decline. It now means a record 85 straight months of job gains and unemployment goes to 4. 3, the lowest in nearly 17 years and average Hourly Earnings up 2. 4 we were looking for something closer to 2. 7 and interesting downtick in labor force, jim. Im going to stick with what we need on this and say youre going to get a rate hike on this if you can do this theres less slack its certainly not based on average Hourly Earni