A tragedy. I mean we mourn everybody whos gone and, and our feelings are with their families as and friends as well. Were not out of the woods yet. It does still require everybody to follow the guidance elsewhere in europe. The spread is on the increase too. In italy, where hotels are now being used to cope with an over spill of patients. The number of cases has now passed 1000000. Thats despite increased lockdown restrictions, such as here in florence. Spains number of dead within 24 hours has increased to morgan 400. Its the highest since the 2nd wave began. France is now using mobile units to treat noncode patients because of demands on its hospitals. Germany as well continues to struggle to hand yet steroids 5 shots you already. Now we have to wards that up pretty much at full capacity and where we are barely able to do our jobs. Hungary is the latest country to increase its lockdown measures. Its parliament has called a 3 month state of emergency that imposes an overnight National
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
Recovery will be slower without additional stimulus, but more aid may require cooperation between democrats and republicans. Mindaltering drugs, is it time to invest in pot stocks . Ben levisohn, carlton english and reshma. Ben, voters are always half unhappy, half happy after an election, but investors were clearly gleeful, and the market was up 7. 5 , almost 7. 5 , its best postelection return since 1932. Break it down for us. Yeah. I mean, its a new narrative going around the market now. Before the election it was all about the blue wave and how you were going to get this massive stimulus thats going to drive the market. Now its about glued lock, that were not gridlock, were not going to get tax increases, massive spending, but without the tax increases, everythings going to be okay. Were basically going to have status quo with some small changes around the edges, and you could even get lucky e and see a little cooperation between biden and mcconnell who knew each other from years i
Chairman Jerome Powell saws recovery will be slower without additional stimulus, but more aid may require cooperation between democrats and republicans. Mindaltering drugs, is it time to invest in pot stocks . Ben levisohn, carlton english and reshma. Ben, voters are always half unhappy, half happy after an election, but investors were clearly gleeful, and the market was up 7. 5 , almost 7. 5 , its best postelection return since 1932. Break it down for us. Yeah. I mean, its a new narrative going around the market now. Before the election it was all about the blue wave and how you were going to get this massive stimulus thats going to drive the market. Now its about glued lock, that were not gridlock, were not going to get tax increases, massive spending, but without the tax increases, everythings going to be okay. Were basically going to have status quo with some small changes around the edges, and you could even get lucky e and see a little cooperation between biden and mcconnell who
Recovery will be slower without additional stimulus, but more aid may require cooperation between democrats and republicans. Mindaltering drugs, is it time to invest in pot stocks . Ben levisohn, carlton english and reshma. Ben, voters are always half unhappy, half happy after an election, but investors were clearly gleeful, and the market was up 7. 5 , almost 7. 5 , its best postelection return since 1932. Break it down for us. Yeah. I mean, its a new narrative going around the market now. Before the election it was all about the blue wave and how you were going to get this massive stimulus thats going to drive the market. Now its about glued lock, that were not gridlock, were not going to get tax increases, massive spending, but without the tax increases, everythings going to be okay. Were basically going to have status quo with some small changes around the edges, and you could even get lucky e and see a little cooperation between biden and mcconnell who knew each other from years i