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
The index is down 10 from its record highs for the month the dow fell 4. 5 pshs, again, its worst month since march and second down nont a row the stp and nasdaq coming off twostraight losing months as you can see here the moves in october not great hanging into november. But it wasnt all red arrows we have been keeping an eye on small cap stocks they fell 1. 5 on friday, they did end the month higher by 2 for their sixthstraight positive month or sixth positive month out of seven crude under heavy selling pressure u. S. Benchmark currently 35 per barrel, 2 of the downside here for wti crude. Remember, lockdowns across europe are beginning to go into effect and thats sparking demand fears much more on that coming up. But first, around the world, a mostly higher session in asia over night on china manufacturing data hang seng in hong kong up 1. 5 europe is getting their day started. Were seeing positivity in the european markets ftse 100 up. Sticking with europe any developing story thi
September retail sales, nice beat there, the srt up 102 from march lows, thats a new high, Dick Sporting goods, best buy, dollar general, costcos and lowes, bed, bath and beyond on its best pace ever is it time to buy retail there are still select names you can buy at retail and some names that have absolutely exploded the up side you just went through a list some of these are at alltime highs. The consumer is strong, the consumer return, the consumer has gotten out there the september numbers were well above what the expectations were these numbers are very, very impressive it does go to show you just how strong these guys are in terms of everybody getting out and about and getting into different retail its not just about the essentials anymore you just went through the laundry list the reality is, it is about people going out and getting clothing, shoes, yoga material whatever it is we might be, we are seeing an absolute run towards that area and a nice spring board were seeing a lot
Announce the launch of its 5g. Power lunch starts right now tyler, thanks lets look at shares of apple. Remember, they were up 6 yesterday. They were down about 1 as the iphone event began last hour they are now down 3. 5 so you really took a turn lower in the last few minutes there. Josh lipton is standing by as the event continues. Josh the event did begin here. Four new models so far introduced so apple is saying the latest and greatest technology, billing it as the smallest, thinnest, lightest 5g phone in the world, thats at starts at 699 and then the next model will start at 799. Then there are those that want the most Cutting Edge Technology for them apple offers the iphon 12 probe and iphone probe max. Theyre powered by 814 bionic chip that should mean a real boost in performance. New camera system in these phones thats very important to consumers. New Wireless Charging system as well it not just iphones either they also did announce a smaller, less expensive version of their ho