Probably not today ahead of another call between Commission President ursula and british Prime Minister Boris Johnson. U. K. Banks and Home Builders suffered the brunt of the selling as the ftse 100 outperforms the spot 600 and the pound stays under pressure well, a very good morning and welcome to street signs, everybody. Our top story of the day, no surprise, brexit as talks enter the 11th hour. And we have plenty of coverage this morning were going to get into all the detail, all the latest in just a moment but i want to kickoff by showing you the Market Reaction because its been pretty interesting the moves weve seen so far. Starting with sterling, which is trading up 1. 5 versus the dollar, so currently around the 1. 3240 level this as volatility in sterling has reached an eightmonth high. So a substantial sell off in the currency this morning on the back of this weekends developments as we head into the final talks. The ftse, meanwhile, the main benchmark in the equity market for
From the fou tour. Two owe posing ways to play the semisector and how to keep digging when at the end of a mine its time to risk less to make more options action starts now. As we just mentioned. Interest in options trading seems to keep growing by the day. So bob has at least part of the reason why good to see you options trading has become the new Sports Betting millions staying at home have discovered Sports Betting and it has created options trading. Trading in equity options hit new highs in november continuing a trend that began earlier in the year equity options trading is 50 above last years level yeartodate on all of the options platforms. Much of the activity has occurred in out of the money call options with much of it in day trading. Buying in the morning and getting out in the afternoon analysts say that might make some sense if you only have a limited amount of money to invest, buying options at 1 or 2 may make more sense than buying a tesla or amazon or apple if the stoc
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
When it begins lets elook at what is driving the numbers today. Millions of americans remain out of work. Could that weakness pressure lawmakers to reach a stimulus deal we will see. Negotiations are under way as we speak. The dow up some 200 points or so two thirds of a percentage with 59 minutes left in the trading week kayla. Wilf, it is great to see you on this friday afternoon coming up on the show, door dash and airbnb ipos to come next week and a big test for appetite of some names in growth tech speaking of high growth, scott cutler, we will get his take on the e competition in apparel and sneakers mike santoli has the market covered. Ylan moi is tracking the latest movements on a stimulus deal and we will dig about sboo the jobs report with Dana Peterson. Mike first to you. What are you seeing behind the charts. Almost all news translated to good news for the market in this current mood that investors are in if you look at a fiveyear chart. Decided to broaden it out here more
Washingtons partisan battle. Joining us now is bloombergs chief content officer marty schenker. Many people thought this was an inspired choice. It ticks so many boxes. Just your sense of what this means for how washington is now going to operate. Martin i wouldnt describe it as necessarily inspired. It is an inspiring lee safe inspiringly safe choice because she is so wellknown on both sides of the aisle. I think she will have a relatively easy time getting confirmed. She is a traditionalist in many ways. She has been at the fed. Shes been at the white house. Shes a great believer in consensus. I think that is what you are going to need with the incoming treasury secretary. Alix nonetheless, it is the first woman treasury secretary, the first woman to lead the fed. This is definitely in that respect a boulder choice. However, how do the progressives feel about her . Marty i think they are very supportive. There is reporting out there that Elizabeth Warren was the person who recommende