A little hard. It looked to me like it was twitter. Like watching twitter for 90 minutes. I did not stick to my original plan. Baseball and bed the two bs i stayed up. I want my time back. I didnt stay up for that long you can play this game with me i felt dissed. How much words can you come up with disappointing, disturbing, disspiriting, distracting, disheartening. Disgusting. You can probably go there disspiriting i looked it up thats exactly what i wanted to say. After all those disses, i wound up with disinteresting thats when i was gone right . It was a let down ly say that. Some people like to watch the fighting it is hard to turn around from it if you were somebody who was tuning in. In my core pin of both candidates, nothing really changed. Mike Wallace Chris wallace had a tough job. I guess he did okay. Im not going to nominate him why do you bother having rules for a debate if nobody is going to bother to follow them kill the rules or give the moderator a kill switch. Both s
Live this hour. Plus records watch, the plus ive got it, carl the dow aiming to erase 2020 losses and the s p heading for the best august since 1986, kelly. Wow and cocacolas restructuring strategies amid plans to streamline the drink portfolio they are setting voluntary job cuts for thousands of its workers. David, it is friday, and kelly, friday and you just sort of think back to what this week has brought us, guys alltime highs, obviously news in sports in the nba, hurricane laura, the rnc and we will hear from what the president said last night tiktok, microsoft, walmart, oracle, you name it, david, but large discussion this morning about how the thing thats going to probably stick with us for the weeks and quarters to come is going to be that historic powell speech and we will have to decide whether this long end is bringing us noise or something more yeah, i mean, im glad kelly is here because im sure she was home studying every word after it took place, as you know, not my area
Ten year is yielding around 0. 65 . Yeah, 0. 648 30year is at 1. 383 andrew thanks, becky nice to see you. Meantime, civil Rights Groups involved in that meeting with facebook which we previewed for you yesterday right here on squawk, well, the companys platforms, they are calling that sitdown meeting disappointing. They say they were unable to get commitments from Company Leaders on how they plan to combat hate speech and misinformation on the site facebook spokesperson said this was an opportunity for the company to reaffirm the commitment to combatting hate on the services well talk a lot more about this later with somebody who was on that phone call. I dont know if it was a phone call or a zoom. They dont do zoom, guys. They didnt i thought it was a zoom . Facebook now has their own. They do they have their own platform now. I dont know if you are going to meet with well, ive had meetings on facebook they often use blue jeans. I thought it said zoom but it might have been used sayi
Good morning, everybody welcome to squawk box on cnbc. Im becky quick here with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. A gain of just over 1 the dow now at 25,000. Now the dow is indicated up 162 points the nasdaq closed at its highest day. Now about 2 from its alltime high thats the run youve seen since the lows back in march treasury yields. Theyve ticked a little higher the 10year looks like it is yielding 0. 75 crude oil prices yesterday, crude was up about 4 percent on this expectation that opec plus especially russia will extend those cuts put in place that was good for 4 as seen yesterday. Crude up by 1 to 37. 16 all of this against a tricky back drop. It is powering higher well talk to a lot of folks that will help us through this the need for Solutions Former white house and ceo of j j and they have big news on all of this. Getting an update of what has gone on. Reporting a day of mostly calm in washington, Late Afternoon in st. Paul, staging the protesters protesters ran past the
613, s p down about 75 and nasdaq off by almost 200 on concerns about what we heard out of the white house last night. Joe mentioned those numbers. 100,000, to 240,000 americans potentially dying from this. The treasury market where yields have come down right at about 0. 619 . Some pressure as people move into treasuries as a safe haven. Andrew part of that, we talked about, so much of the money being rebalanced to some degree was propping that up that money wont be there today or the rest of the week or rest of the month because so many of the Pension Funds were there irrespective of the numbers we were hearing well put some pressure on the market in the meantime, the number of confirmed cases has reached 189,000. More than 4,000 people have died in new york city alone the latest death toll has exceeded 18,000. Maine is the latest state to issue stay at home order joining 28 other states. This morning, three out of four americans are facing some sort of lockdown due to the coronaviru