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
Away from the alltime record high, there you have it the worlds most valuable company, apple the stock is up again, the worlds most innovative dynamic seller, amazon the stock is up again. The market, that is digested a lot of Bank Earnings already, goldman did very well in the dow is looking at 80point gain and look at the nasdaq up about 26, 27point again, i see a lot of green this wednesday morning. Heres the headline dueling townhouse tomorrow night instead of a second debate, mr. Trump working with nbc, joe biden working with abc, obvious question why not reinstate the debate, the Electoral Commission really blew it by insisting on virtual. Did you see Speaker Pelosi getting rattled on cnn, in primetime will blitzer asked her what was wrong with the president 1. 8 trillion stimulus plan, why not pick up the phone, call the president and make a deal. She became very flustered and accused blitzer and his colleagues of being an apologist for republicans. Have you ever watched online
Question where. Theres probably no dispute among any legal scholars on either side of the spectrum is can the president unilaterally change the election day and the answer is affirmatively know the constitution gives him no power. Its a legislative act by congress and nothing he can do short of its short of Congress Change in the day. You do that again. She pointed out that she said well i would have to consult my clerks and my colleagues and that to me was that was sort of a mistake its sort of belie the whole theory of of do no harm in the debate to the point is. You know its like its like a defense plane you prevent defense in him. All you do is you prevent yourself from winning. That wont happen here. But her she were to do that and other softballs where she should be able give an answer i think you know your lease doubt but in the end it will change the final outcome. Judge barrett said that she would not be used as a as she put it to decide a potential election case but she did n
We start off with all the red on wall street, stocks retreating from alltime highs as the dow drops over 800 points in its biggest oneday decline since june tech starts dropping nearly 6 , snapping a tenday win streak. Is this only the beginning guy adami, what do you think hi, mel remember the carpenters . The car ppenters are one of my o five favorite bands. Weve only just begun as ive said many times, 24 hours does not a day make. I dont want to get into the vix but i will say weve talked about it now for the better part of a week and a half despite the that the Broader Market was rallying, the vix was trying to tell you something the internals of the market havent been particularly good this gets us back to levels we saw last week. I do believe its the beginning of something but it could all reverse tomorrow on jobs numbers. Weve seen it before we come back after a long weekend to find the market up significantly. Clearly there are things to be concerned about. Grasso, what did you
Are buying oracle, modest selling, investors are buying oracle, modest selling and microsoft, i got that right. They are buying nvidia which is paying 40 billion to softbank for the arm holding, heres what we know it helps nvidia become a major player in advanced computing from the cloud and nvidia ceo the stock is up 31 a share, as per the election campaign, the contrast, the president took his message directly to Live Audience in western states and invited up a crowd in nevada, joe biden stayed home. After the ambush of two Police Officers in l. A. Biden issued a tweet condemning violence, trump called for the Death Penalty football, tom brady lost but football is back and despite the absence of crowd, the gate on time played well on tvp fight shots of the game piped in crowd noise, it worked for me, social justice activism was hardly apparent during the game itself but Colin Kaepernick did have something to say. You will find out what he had to say. We have a new shopping holiday, t