Expected to drop 24 year on year. The futures are looking slightly lower, down four points. We are looking at some of the currencies. As david would say in the last hour, the bloomberg dollar index is on track for its worst july in a decade. A more dovish start from the fomc. No big surprises from the fed, but the lower mantra weighing on the dollar. The dollar index is flat, at least for now. Wellussie in his flat as aussieyen is flat as well. We move on to the commodities and the yield story. The question marks around oil were in focus as well towards the end of play yesterday. You saw a reduction in the u. S. By about 10 billion barrels. That gave some support to crude prices and wti, currently flat. Gold is now 5 10 of 1 . The 10 your yield on year, still below 60 basis points. 57 is barely moved, risch. Rishaad yep. Global coronavirus case is approaching 17 million. More than 660,000 people have died now. The states recording 150,000 fatalities. California, florida, and texas post
Good morning welcome to squawk box here melissa lee is hanging out again with us. Becky is off today for some welldeserved vacation well see her next week. As joe said yesterday, one of the first down days weve seen in a while a little better s p up about 13 and nasdaq looking to open about 45 points higher also showing you treasury yields now you can see where those are standing well flip that around to. 628 on the 10year you thinking about refinancing a mortgage anytime soon, guys . Im as low as they go im good if you have an account where you can use assets for credit line or to make an investment or Something Like that, i remember two or three years ago, i locked this ridiculously low rate if they come to me again and offer another one, it will be lower than it was last time. It was like 2 or 1. 5 when you get money that cheap, dont you think you you are in the drivers seat when rates are this low i dont feel bad about borrowing money at rates like that so you are talking about get
Sanctions and claims to the South China Sea take center stage today. Stocks are shrugging it off. The dow up more than 400 points but the big tech is struggling faang, internet names that have been on fire are seeing weakness today. Were following it all 59 minutes left of trade. Certainly weve been all over the place in markets but were up as we stand with the major indexes we have a big line up of guests. In a few moments well speak with shrewsberry, cfo of wells fargo. And Robert Kaplan will join us and well speak with Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer an earlier biden endorser as biden lays out more details of his economic plan. Lets focus in on the big stories were watching at this hour wilfred has the highlights ph wilfred, start off with the banks here. The key focus, sara, as we expected it to be on provisions for potential bad loans. They rose from all the banks from q 1 to q 2 and rose more than expected. Wells fargos more than doubling quarter over quarter the big question
The first case that we will argue stay is down from versus the usa. Mr. Chief justice, the subpoenas at issue here are unprecedented in every sense. No court hadcases, ever upheld the use of Congress Passed subpoena power. Had toittee of congress the records of a sitting president with a broad swath of the president s personal papers to the let alone purpose of the a potential legislation. There is a reason this is the first time a set has attempted such a gambit. Because, grist has subpoena power, it is subordinate and when that power is deployed against the president , it must yield absent any longstanding tradition or compelling showing of need. The committees consent is neither condition and that should decide this case. The committees contend the subpoenas satisfy the limits this court has always applied to congressional subpoenas. But the arguments would render those limits meaningless. But the arguments would render those limits meaningless. They claim congress can you subpoenas
Something positive, right, with that rising case count hitting new records, it seems virtually every day, and deaths also starting to move up in knows hardhit states as well with hospitalizations thats certainly been a focus for Market Participants as you guys well know Scott Gottlieb who we follow closely tweeting about the remdesivir news, very encouraged but needs to be confirmed in a prospective trial, appears to be a receipt peck testify analysis of the face three data suggesting a survival benefit in severe Covid Patients. We have made the point many times it is only good news on remdesivir, but lets remember its an infused therapy in the hospital typically for people who are severely ill what we are hoping for and waiting for are significant antivirals that will have an affect on the virus far earlier in its course so that people will feel much more comfortable in resuming behavior because if they were to get it and these were to be available they could immediately take an oral