Good Tuesday Morning welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt. Its a mixed fwoog day retail earnings, amazon pharmacy, covid19 restrictions, fed speak. Were going to begin this morning on capitol hill as both Mark Zuckerberg and jack dorsey testify before Senate Judiciary on censorship, suppression, and, of course, the 2020 election our Julia Boorstin is monitoring this and can tell us what happened so far. Julia . Well, carl, senator Lindsey Graham focusing on what he sees as a need to revise section 230, thats the rule that protects social media platforms for legal liability for content. He says facebook and constituenter wetwitter were making editorial decisions and far more transparent standards are necessary. He called out the Mental Health risks associated with social media use. On the other side of the aisle, richard bloomenthal, he is calling for breakup of the platforms. Mark zuckerberg supports change to section 230 dorsey pointing out they need to walk a f
Shares of pharmacy giants are under pressure after amazon said it was jumping into the Prescription Drug business bowe is off a little pour than 100 points nasdaq and s p clinging on the gains. Coming on todays show, retail earnings season full swing. Shares of coles are higher after topping eps estimates this morning. We will talk with the ceo. Plus, as the u. S. Is seth coronavirus records we will talk with dr. Eric gooseby. All of that still to come. First lets focus on the big stories today. Mike santoli is tracking the market phil lebeau has more on teslas spree into the s p 500 and we will talk about the pharmacy space and amendss move into it. Mike santoli lets start with you. It was the morning was off the lows a mild pullback. Market seemed like it needed to cool off and rest for a day. Right now riding the upper rail here we close at a record yesterday remember that. Above 3600 working below week ago mondays high hard to tell whether thats going the matter or not. Thats about
Good morning welcome to squawk box. Im becky quick along with yoe kernen and mike santoli. Andrew is off today. Well start things off with the stock futures after some positive vaccine news drove the dow and s p 500 to record highs. Dow giving back some of that ground, down by about 100 point, but remember how far they have marched for the last three weeks. S p is indicated down by about 14 points and then the nasdaq is indicated up by about 12 points. We do have some breaking news from amazon and better that coocoo Bertha Coombs ohas that story they are launching a full Online Pharmacy building on its acquisition of pill pack the new pharmacy is innetwork with major insurers and medicare and patients can pay for their prescription copays with funds from their Health Savings accounts just like they were at any pharmacy and they can confer with pharmacists online or over the phone about their prescriptions. Prime members get free two day shipping, patients who needs meds right away with
Thats unbelievable. Bob has more on whats driving the action bob. Thank you were seeing some rotation today. Its about time and thats a really good sign for the market. Well see if that holds. These things come and day. The banks have been drooping a bit. Nn energy, first rally really in a month. Tech is sort of inline today thats interesting i want to show you something health care is lagging nap was the Leadership Group this the the rotation im talking about. How about tech tech is up its an interesting form of tech its Old School Tech hewlettpackard is up nice today. Xerox is rallying. Corning is rallying. Thats old school stuff. Hoe about the megacap stocks the big five names theyre up i want to point out, they were very late to the party today those stocks were all flat at the open a lot of people are offsides today. Look at the estimates out there. Theres been some conneequity ad mutual funds that tells you a lot of people are not very optimistic. 2939 that was the old high at te
Day of november on the backs of home depot and kohls, both tumbling after cutting outlooks and comps forecast. The record rally for stocks, it rolls on. Futures as you saw pointing to renewed all time highs at the open and vaping crackdown. California suing juul for marketing to teens new york set to make a socalled major announcement of their own later today. Well start with retail, though, home depot shares down on the premarket, earnings did beat but sales missed and company cuts the full year outlook saying integration is not delivering as quickly as they thought. Kohls tumbling on weaker guidance i was curious to hear you say a moment ago that lowes is getting to be the better buy because well see that print tomorrow. Yes i have to tell you, i think Marvin Ellison energized the place. One thing that happened was that lowes fell behind home depot technologically. They didnt have the systems that is no longer the case as Marvin Ellison rolls out technology at every single lowes, and