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Welcome to squawk box. Im becky quick along with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. Futures are indicated higher this morning, triple digit gains for the dow up by about 167 points but yesterday was a big down day for the markets. Dow was down by over 400 points, 1. 4 the s p and nasdaq done evz nasy even more. This morning s p indicated up by about 25 and nasdaq looks like it would open up by over 100 points fairly significant obviously everybody watching what will be happening with the stimulus talks with the deadline that nancy pelosi has said for later today. Lets take a look at the treasury markets ahead of that, you will see that the ten year looks like it is yielding 0. 777 so a little stronger yields for the treasury markets right now but andrew, obviously washington is where people are watching and that is exactly where well go because House Speaker nancy pelosi and Steve Mnuchin are saying that they are making progress in their latest stimulus talks with time running short of
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The nasdaq pulling away from alltime highs, the apple one of the five big stocks posting a gain today but while big tech tumbled, the rest of the market was better. The s p 500 less than a percent away from a new alltime high and energy and industrials leading the way. So todays market action, is it a sign florithat the great rota is in place. Guy . It would appear that way. And happy monday and i took french in high school and this move was as we used to say [ speaking Foreign Language we get what youre saying. That is what i said at any rate, it is a pretty and kudos to tim and karen theyve been talking about the transportations for a while in terms of the stocks, look at the move in caterpillar today, a few weeks ago you played trade it or fade it with karen and boeing was 195 and she correctly said to fade it and we talk about how it would trade down to 160 or so and it overshot down at 154. But look at it today, approaching 180. So i think this is a healthy thing. I think those na
Im Andrew Ross Sorkin with joe kernen and melissa lee becky is off again we are about 111 points up now s p 500 looking to open about 11 points higher. Flip is around and show you we are at. 952. Still under the six handle i always wonder what the bond vigilantes are thinking now relative to our little equity world. Worth noting we are still 3 well away from the february record highs some highlights. The ceo of Tractor Supply, auto nation venture capitalist, treasury secretary mnuchin, house leader and twitter ceo. A huge lineup straight ahead thats a big show yeah. You guys always have a big show but this is particularly large. For you because you are here people said, melissa will be on book her i think they wanted to do it for you but i think they were scared if they didnt do it of me thats the feeling they got they didnt want to disappoint you. I doubt it thats nice to say but i doubt it im not a scarey person. Im not. Maybe to you nows this morning out of washington. Reaching Comm