Welcome to squawk box. Im Andrew Ross Sorkin along with joe and melissa lee, becky is off the s p looking to open about 12 points higher. Well explain why some of this is happening and lets show you treasury yields as well the ten year note right now looking at 0. 931 . But maybe a little bit of an explanation coming up here, melissa . Yeah, some optimism Mitch Mcconnell said that compromised deal was within reach and well get a live report from washington at 6 30 a. M. And we heard it before, but it seems like btoth sides are comig a little closer. On a much lower number. And im just thinking about, i dont know, andrew, what did we do to deserve this i mean we are living right or i mean, who ushered in the new week on squawk box on monday who is helping us usher out the week that was on squawk box . A monday and a friday. Is this46 w was this planne melissa, what did we do to deserve this not wouldby not by me how long has it been, stimulus vaccine i guess the election, although we do
Soaring today. Meg tirrell with details. The bar was very high for moderna after pfizers efficacy last week. Mad earn moderna met the 94 percent efficacy and will seek the fda emergency authorization in the coming weeks. We just talked to the doctor who has been leading the vaccine and Drug Development as part of operation warp speed about the significance of this moment, really seeing two vaccines in a row at this high level of efficacy heres what he said. Its an extraordinary outcome, frankly, to have two different vaccines tested in different conditions by two Different Companies developed independently yield very similar outcomes this gives a huge confidence into the data obtained and really suggests that the 90 percent and more efficacy is true and real. But of course, melissa, as were getting this extremely good news it comes at a time in the pandemic when weve never been seeing more daily cases, were seeing 140,000 a day on average right now. And were seeing more and more people
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
From home and implementing new restrictions he is speaking to the uk as we speak. And big tech stocks gaining back some ground after a rough month. Amazon climbing up analysts say the selloff created an attractive entry point. Sara, we have 59 minutes another volatile session amazon is nicely higher. The Broader Markets are slightly higher yeah, taking all of Consumer Discretionary it with. Retail winners today as well coming up on todays show, despite the upturn, the nasdaq is the underperformer in the month of september so far. Were going to ask tiech investr dan niles where he is putting his money to work. Even the ceo of levi will join us with a look at how consumers have spending money. And speaking of retail, were counting down to nike earnings to day after the close, nike by the way, best performer in the dow right now. Well get results from stitch fix, kb home and teslas Shareholder Meeting and battery day. It is shaping up to be a busy afternoon of news. 58 minutes left of tra
Experts stress that is not uncommon to do were going to dive into that one in just a moment in the winners, 2020, reversing slack is plunging, lululemon is lower, nikola is down after it was up sharply yesterday its been a volatile last few sessions into the close. 59 minutes left. Certainly has been volatile welcome back, sara, having been off. Ahead of the upcoming debut well speak with Venture Capital investor about his bet on the company which started many years ago and how this ipo might do. Plus shares of retailer five below, more than 40 from the lows well speak with the ceo about whats driving this recovery you wont want to michigan this interview. The one and only Shaquille Oneal about the new effort for Financial Inclusion and access to capital in america. Shaq is coming up later in the show lets focus, first of all, on the stories. New details on astrazenecas decision to pause its vaccine trial. Mike, lets start with you and this big bounceback today. It is a pretty big boun