Call it a 25 million what if why new comments from President Trump have the media folks getting social media on their side over exxon. And later on, steal a xwas gebaa taco why fans have a new reason to tune into the world series and why prices are sky high for the seats. It is thus, octobuesday, octobe this is boais worldwide exchan got too much time on my hands all right, good morning, good afternoon, good evening from wherever you may be im Brian Sullivan throwing out a little styx and here is another song quote see if you get it. 2020 24 hours to go and maybe the markets want to be sedated that after yesterdays 400 point haircut for the dow and 1. 5 drop on the nasdaq the markets nervous about the nancy pelosi imposed stimulus deadline in 24 hours and maybe also starting to think about much higher taxes if we see a blue sweep but right now, the futures are reversing just a bit not indicating that they will gain back what we lost, but dow futures are up 150 and of course context alw
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
Justice for the senate to consider. President trump prepares a nomination. Mitch mcconnell pledges a vote. The democrats promise a fight. An epic showdown with just 44 days until the final votes. Our guests this is morning, bill clinton who nominated Ruth Ginsburg in 1993. Americas top elected democrat now, nancy pelosi, and republican senator ted cruz. Plus, analysis from our powerhouse round table. Good morning, and welcome to this week. Call it the year of chaos. The 2020 election has already seen it all. Impeachment, a pandemic, economic turmoil. Racial protests scarred at times by violence, and friday night, the loss of an american giant, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. A champion of equality, she broke barriers as a law professor and advocate, achieving greatness in the words of Supreme Court colleague david souter before she became a great justice. Outside the court where ginsburg served for 27 years, admirers have been gathering to mourn her passing, prepare for the
Just ahead. Calling for the attorney general to release transcripts of the we need you to be baking ready for battle. Grand jury proceedings. We count on you. Amy Coney Barrett heads to if you could Say Something to the attorney general, what would what are the doctors telling you capitol hill this week. About your recovery . Yeah. It be . I mean, first i just want to republicans looking to fast we feel lied to. Stop for a second and thank all reporter the grand jury the doctors and First Responders track her confirmation. Democrats resisting but one and everybody who helped me. Leading senator announcing indicted former officer Brent Hankison for firing shots that theyre powerless to stop it. Went into a neighboring you appreciate them but when the aftermath. Police body camera video emerges push really comes to shove, you see what a miracle worker they showing what happened in the apartment. His lawyer says he intends to moments following that deadly raid on Breonna Taylors plead not
Change his mind about approval. Latery powell will say that the u. S. Economy is improving, but has a long way to go before fully recovering from the virus. The st. Louisrom fed president this hour. Haidi investors are waiting to hear from fed chair powell. But we know the gist of what he is likely to say given that the commentary has been around how recovery will be, managing expectations. The recent fairly positive data points we have gotten. S p active futures after the session overnight really erasing some of those earlier losses as well. Some of the gains we have seen trading flat at the moment. U. S. Stocks fell. Could have been worse if not for that rebound in tech shares stemming the losses. It did get close to that threshold to be considered a market correction. 0. 1 ires down by should say by 1 at the moment. Japanese markets are closed for a second day this week for the autumn equinox holiday. ,ydney futures down by 1 trading in new zealand down by 0. 1 . Victoria has come o