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
Pretty true to form on this thanksgiving hence to be a positive bias. But nothing out of the mode for a moment here. And that was a few days ago. You know, not necessarily you might think so you kind of just, you know, get ab early slate there was a definite persistence to the quarterly strength. There is a dynamic though. Once it gets overbought, once sentiment gets overoptimistic as arguably it is right now, usually you can see the multiple times in recent years when the Fourth Quarter just melted up. And at some point nifrt few months of the next year, usually you have a little bit of a recession. Mike, see you soon. Malls may look a lot different compared to a normal black friday Bertha Coombs is live in new jersey with a closer look at whether people are showing up to shop in person at all. They are. Some people have shown up. Were coming off a record thanksgiving in terms of online sales with so many Stores Closed but today we found some folks lining up for door busters this morn
Hour, likely to confirm thirdquarter results that beat forecasts. The first since the patriarch. It may losewarning Legal Protection over user content. Lawmakers accuse platforms of abusing their power for political speech as the election nears. First, lets get you started with a quick check of the markets. Sophie kamaruddin in hong kong. Sophie after the steep losses we saw for u. S. And european stocks, we are looking for a downside move here in asia with earnings also in focus and we have u. S. Futures edging higher early in this session. We do have aussie shares under pressure, off by. 4 this morning. This after the tech lead rebound we saw wednesday looking shortlived. And set under pressure, falling 3 after recording a 42 slump in profit. Those results coming in line with analyst estimates. Check out the aussie dollar holding about 70 but trading near a nine day. It could be in the making the next few days. Metzler about the board to check in on some other assets in focus. We are
Pete, ill begin with you. We got to 464. Were right on the doorstep and pete, it seems no maertter you throw at apple, the stock continues to go higher i think it comes down to fundamental story. We talk about the fundamental story all the time but the reality is, they crushed it again in q2. When you look at the revenues and the earnings and the beats they made there, the double digit beats they made, its extraordinary. The other side is how about when they came out with the less expensive 399, the se model. That was another genius move then, its not just the services you look over at the wearables you combine those two and you not too far away just those two entities. You put thoeds together. They are close to 20 billion and the iphone brought in 26 billion. When you look at this from a fundamental perspective, youre looking at a company thats clicking on all cylinders and you still have 5g and the split. Theres different elements to this trade that tells me the stock can get up and
How to taper without hitting prices . Polands president ial election is too close to call. We have the incumbent ahead by a thin margin. The result is seen as pivotal for the nations future ties with the European Union. Welcome to the European Market open. Matt is off this week, but just a month under an hour until the start of the trading day. European futures and u. S. Futures for you and both tell a similar story. European equity fund its pointing to the upside, u. S. Futures pointing to the upside. Between. 6 andp. 8 . Weve got u. S. Banks reporting, plenty of those coming through the week. Weve got a few Central Banks giving us their Interest Rate decisions, a little less likely to drive sentiment this week. Looking to the earnings season for any clues. Lets have a look at the gmm to see where weve been overnight through the Asian Session and any clues into the european session. Flying, chinese assets taking off despite caution in chinese papers. The japanese nikkei come also stro