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
Storm threatening the gulf coast. And on the campaign trail, Vice President pence and Kamala Harris facing off in their first and only debate, the highlights next on this thursday, october 8, and this is worldwide exchange. Who is playing asia . Yes, spin eoff. They always surprise me with the music. I would fall from grace anyway, good morning, good ev afternoon. Welcome from wherever in the world that you are watching. Thanks for joining us. And weve almost made it, folks. Stock markets may make you money today. The dow coming off its best day since midjuly with a more than 500 point gain on the dow. The s p and nasdaq also coming off more than 1 gains and other good signs it is the transports gaining another 2. 5 yesterday, an alltime record high and overall, the dow is less than 5 from its alltime high, s p about 6 to go and nasdaq also about 6 from its record high as we claw back from those market declines a couple months ago. Around the world, stocks in asia hitting one month hig
Strong gains and this morning you will see that there are green arrows once again, the dow indicated up by about 88, s p by about 9 1 2 and the nasdaq indicated up by 48 points if you watched what happened in the treasury markets, we did get a lot of fed speak and it sounds like there is a little bit of confusion. You can see the ten year note has ticked up a little bit, 0. 769 is the latest yield andrew and lets take a quick look at the dow transports, gaining another 2. 5 yesterday, also hitting a record high, the two as to beings to watch this morning, eli lilly and he regeneron both big winners on Covid Treatment hopes. And President Trump touting both of those in a video that he released over twitter late yesterday. Well tuck a lalk more about th. But also take a look at shares of tesla, new Street Research upgrading that Company Stock to a buy saying that to sees a decade of hyper growth ahead, this call makes the firm the second highest priced target on the street so in lead wit
Look theyre higher across the board. The nasdaq is up by 134. Its early in the morning but these are pretty significant green arrows at this point take a look at whats happening at the treasury market and youll see that right now the ten year is yielding where it has been 0. 996 joe. Tik tok, the latest here. Developing late yesterday, the u. S. Judge blocked an order that would ban tiktok from being downloaded in the u. S. The ruling is the chinese owner byte dance has more time to get approval from u. S. And Chinese Authority which is unclear if that really happens for that deal with oracle and walmart the judge did not clock a much broader ban which is set to take effect on november 12th which the way things are going will be here like tomorrow i wanted 2020 to go quickly but now im thinking its just going too quickly. We wanted to go quickly. Still 2020. You still did your best Barbara Walters with that. 2020. And hugh, hugh had a long illustrious life hugh is gone now but we remem
This comes after modest advances you did see gains. The second out of the last three sessions as joe mentioned it has been a rough week we are on track now if we continue on this pace to have the first down month weve seen since march. Looking at all the gains theyve built up on all of this. You are looking at fairly solid gains. It is a matter of days before we get to the end of the quarter. Take a look at the treasury yields now, especially the 10year. 0. 661 hasnt budged. Weve been sitting at these levels for some time weve got developing news right now. President trump asking a u. S. Court to let a ban on the tencent app wechat proceed the judge is giving the president to 2 30 this afternoon to postpone a ban on tiktok downloads. It doesnt pause the ban but says they must defend the policy in a sunday court hearing. The policy is currently set for 11 59 p. M. This sunday so a lot going on with the kvdel saga it was 11 59 last week too. What happens if you cant download it . Did you