Capitol police, citing the increased threats against them in recent weeks. Turning now to the battle against covid19. As the white house gears up for a mass vaccination of americans, the World Health Organization has a team in wuhan, china, investigating the origins of the virus. The team was released from quarantine just yesterday. Our Ramy Inocencio was in wuhan during the initial outbreak last year and is back covering the investigation. Reporter finally free in wuhan to find covids origin. 13 experts from the World Health Organization liberated after 14 days in quarantine. They tweeted photos of their departure. New yorkbased epidemiologisted release, focus. What contacts they had, what behaviors they had, and does that lead us into different geography or different behavior. So its unclear if china is the real source, the original source of the virus. Reporter that will probably frustrate the many people around the world who believe covid did come from china. The Seafood Market tho
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
I turn to you first, laura set the scene first. How does the market look to you . What are you focusing on its really, really an interesting time in the markets right now. You have this dichotomy where were seeing some strength in the markets. I think were a little off today but youre seeing some read through or look through in the market to say, hey, were going to see optimism on the other side however the economy hasnt quite caught up yet to the markets i think we are going to need and we need to focus on making sure that the legislature realized we still need stimulus, we need the consumer thats twothirds of this economy back in full swing. Not getting it. Not right now what does that mean if i tell you were not getting it, were not getting it any time soon. Soon is relative as well, right . Theres a lot of levers that can be pulled here i think that were getting things together and, you know, i wish we could get it during december at some point youre right, it does not look like it
Day of trading, but the Broader Market was done a bit for the week. Disney plus blew away expectations, can they give netflix a run for its money . And a wave of celebrities are getting into spacs. My colleagues, ben levisohn, carlton english and jack howe. Ben, a tale of two markets. Everyone was so excited about doordash and airbnb x then the market slud a little bit. Finish. Thats right, jack. Ipos got so much attention, it was almost as if the rest of the market didnt exist. I know i had to go check to see how we were doing on the week. Airbnb, as you said, more than doubled on its first day, doordash gained 86 . There have been 19 ipos that have doubled on their first day this year, and thats the most since 2000, the dot. Com bubble. Despite all that, the market did finish down just a little bit, the dow was down 0. 6 , the s p was off 1 . And its really bad data, jobless claims, but i think it was really more about political fear. Jack so stimulus, i know those negotiations are s
Day of trading, but the Broader Market was done a bit for the week. Disney plus blew away expectations, can they give netflix a run for its money . And a wave of celebrities are getting into spacs. My colleagues, ben levisohn, carlton english and jack howe. Ben, a tale of two markets. Everyone was so excited about doordash and airbnb x then the market slud a little bit. Finish. Thats right, jack. Ipos got so much attention, it was almost as if the rest of the market didnt exist. I know i had to go check to see how we were doing on the week. Airbnb, as you said, more than doubled on its first day, doordash gained 86 . There have been 19 ipos that have doubled on their first day this year, and thats the most since 2000, the dot. Com bubble. Despite all that, the market did finish down just a little bit, the dow was down 0. 6 , the s p was off 1 . And its really bad data, jobless claims, but i think it was really more about political fear. Jack so stimulus, i know those negotiations are s