Twitter, defending how they moderate content on their social media platforms. Some senators not buying it at all. Well bring you the latest details. Meantime, kelly. Tyler, thank you very much. Weve got all the big stories covered for you today. Bob pisani is watching this big down day for stocks. Meg is tracking the latest spikes in covid cases and ylan mui on this tech hearing on capitol hill today lets start with you, ylan reporter well, kelly, there was a lot of Political Drama during this hearing today but also an important discussion about election security. With all three ceos acknowledging that other countries are trying to interfere in our election, and theyre trying to do it on their own platforms. We do continue to see interference we recently disclosed actions we took on both russia and actions originating out of iran. We do continue to see coordinated influence operation items. Weve been very vigilant we appreciate the cooperation we get from the intelligence agencies and
Over by 250 points and this morning you are seeing green arrows for the s p 500 and nasdaq, nasdaq right now up by about 122 points in the future market and that is pretty impressive you are now talking about four days in a row that you have seen gains for the major averages all are within 5 of their 52 week highs and in fact the transports set a new alltime high yesterday too. Right now the dow futures are indicated a little down by about 61 points. Were watching a lot of things that have been happening including news with Johnson Johnson, and earnings are coming out too. And if you want to take a look at the treasury market, right now you will see that the ten year seems to be sitting just around 0. 759 . So not far from where it has been yep, earnings are supposed to take the baton from stimulus hopes, which i dont know whether those are fleeting or not. But supposedly the earnings might be pretty good yesterday kind of weird all the stay at home new age tech stuff was strong as i t
Test, how will this impact our sunday football . Surging covid cases across the country overwhelming hospitals. Theyre exhausted we have been going at this for nine months now. The struggling front line workers and the people most at risk live from cnbc Global Headquarters the facts, the truth, the news with Shepard Smith. And good evening, we begin tonight with hope, a Silver Lining even, as another wave of covid sweeps across our nation in big business and small brace for the fallout. There is a new and promising sign for our economy as we head into the weekend the numbers are in, and they show americans are spending. Retail sales up sharply last month. We just got the numbers today. More than doubling the expectations shoppers spending big on clothes and accessories, up 11 . Music and book sales jumped 6 car sales up 3 1 2 . Thats all good, and now the big test Small Businesses and Big Box Stores are heading into a make or break Holiday Season with the virus bearing down now and no
Vice president pence, senator Kamala Harris. Faceoff in the first and only vp debate. What to expect and how the night could impact the election. Plus boarded up and seeking shelter. Hurricane delta slams into mexico and heads our way tonight, tracking the storm, as it barrels toward a better gulf coast. Live from cnbc global headquarters, the fact, the truth, the news with Shepard Smith. Good evening again tonight our nation is at an impasse. Many of us and those who lead us are dug in on how to tackle the coronavirus. How to shore up the lives and livelihoods of those caught in the covid crosshairs, the infection rate is climbing rapidly. That is not in dispute, but we as a nation are at odds about how exactly to live with it, how to fight and where to fold as we stare down the killer among us and what to do about the money that tens of millions of americans desperately need stimulus talks are stalled and many who suffer wonder right now if help is coming at all as our leaders play p
Good morning, welcome back to squawk box right here on cnbc this morning. Im Andrew Ross Sorkin along with joe kernen and kelly evans. Becky is off today lets show you where futures stand at this hour maybe 12, 15 hours after President Trump returning to the white house. The dow looks like it would open down marginally about 63 points off, nasdaq off about 83 s p 500 off about 15 points. Lets also show you treasury yields as we speak, well show you the ten year yield right now, you are looking at 0. 763. Meanwhile ill pass it over to kelly. Thanks for joining us this morning. And youve got the news on President Trump. And before we get to that, joe, we were just joking about, you know, you and me we could banter and we were in studio and andrew wasnt and now, you know, were all no, you are in studio still im still here. Ive been here since april and i like it here there is no delay. Is that are you wearing orange or that red i think that were in sync sort of yeah, it was an orangey red