After the ecb announcement and it has been quite choppy in the u. S. , equities are now lower. All three indices are down. The dow and s p down by. 4 , nasdaq down. 1 . The 10year yield at 70 basis points. Little movement but enough to show there is some kind of reaction. The euro continuing to strengthen. Above 118. We will stay on the euro. Surgeine lagarde say the in currency must be monitored. That only called for the european to strengthen further. Our first guest is lena komileva. A lot to unpack out of the meeting but how is the european economy doing . Economy wasropean recovering quite strongly from the effect of the lockdowns. It is the balance effective switching on and switching off and on an entire continent. Whilst important is that a lot of the conversation is about the top figures, which did recover quite strongly in the early months after the lockdowns, we had quite a great divergence between the sectors. Those most affected by social distancing are lagging behind but
If theres anything that kind of went a little right, its that the murder hornets never showed difficult. Even bees deal with coronavirus, they do have to deal with sudden colony collapse. Ironically, they have to deal with hornets. This is video of hornets kidnapping bees. Its fascinating video recorded by a Palo Alto Company called bee hero which has developed sensors to watch for incoming hornets. They have made radar for bees. Now for the record, these are asian giant hornets, not murder hornets. But i dont think the poor bee cares one way or another. Well show you more video later. I promise. Well get to the ceo and cofounder of bee hero. A man forever stuck happily on the bee team. I have so many questions. Lets go with the fact that bees are very important to farms. Farmers actually bring bees in to the farms and the bee keepers release the bees. You dont raise bees, right . Youre not bee keepers. What do you do . Yeah. My cofounder is a bee keeper and thats how i got to know tha
Good morning, everybody. Welcome to squawk box on cnbc. Im becky quick with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin well start with the markets after the dow fell for the first time in four sessions. Airlines, cruz and retailers all fell during yesterday sessions those have been the volatile stocks if you look at u. S. Equity futures this morning, youll see green arrows the dow indicated up by 28 points nasdaq up by 24 and s p up 4. 5 yesterday, the dow was down 170. During the course of the morning, we were watching the futures and up as much as 250 in the morning. Weve been keeping an eye what is happening with the treadsry markets. Right now, it looks like that 10year yield is just at 0. 71 andrew good morning. Thank you. United states pulling out of talks with europe to tax tech giants Steven Mnuchin saying international talks have hit an impasse and there wasnt even room for an interim deal it threatened retaliation if they move ahead with plans of their home a number of European Compan
U. K. s chief negotiator rejects a proposal to avoid a no deal. Him ask exclusively with he plans to shore up recovery. A lot of things for markets to grapple with. We have concerns about the record cases in the u. S. A number of states, not just texas, pausing on reopening. The initial jobless claims causing some concerns. Could we see layoffs coming through, even with the reopening . We look ahead to Consumer Spending data in the u. S. , and the news flow yesterday and overnight. On the one hand, given one hand to the banks volcker rule, and dividends. We did see the s p 500 yesterday. Chinese markets are closed. We do see a risk on trade in equities. In terms of her features are positioned, muted, up to 10th of 1 . 1 2 10 of 1 . The bloomberg other index is pretty much unchanged. The 10 year yield is study. For oil is study. For is steady. , its beenor oil tempered with a sharp drop in export plants. It is headed for its highest weekly decline since april. Wall street lenders will s
What else is going on here . We also have lines coming through from carrie lam saying they will not be appointing judges to individual cases with regard to the National Security legislation. She had said earlier it would not be retrospective. Elsewhere, lets have a look at some of the other markets. The shanghai comp, for 10th of 1 . 4 10 of 1 . The kospi, much higher. We were up about 1. 67 before the headlines. The aussie market, erasing all of the gains and the red before came back. The singapore market does language seven tents below the gain line. A quick look at currencies. The dollar index was actually moving to the downside. The first time in six days. That has turned around now. The dollar index itself is marginally high. This is giving up some of its gains. Yen just below 107. Terling up approaching the 1. 25 level. The aussie has been appreciating. It is on the verge of testing the 70 u. S. Sent level. Confidence in the euro area improving marginally. Still down 14. 7. Bette