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
It was down by 100 points more than where it stands right now put it all in financial stocks when Elizabeth Warren was the nasdaq was off about 2. 5 Vice President i have been sceptical of the the shanghai composite rose more market as it is. Nonetheless, we have other news than 3 . Though to bring you this morning. We should probably get to it Central Banks held Interest Rates steady a transaction to talk about. Over the weekend regulators raised the limit on how much they can invest in Equity Assets in an effort to break longterm funds into the market and it i should say its according certainly worked at least for to the wall street journal today. Lets take a look at the it says the deal could be announced as soon as today treasury market back here in the United States. Right now i think the yield is the ebay unit similar to just around 0. 6 for the ten craigslist operates primarily and a lot of us dont know about year i dont know if you saw that story over the weekend it primarily i
Weve seen for the dow in a row, the first time thats happened since february this is all happening despite crude oil prices the treasury shows you the tenyear is yielding 0. 627 . There are crude oil prices, generally when weve seen pressure on crude oil, thats put pressure on equities as well thats not the case this morning. Wti is indicated down by over 15 . Thats a decline of 2. 66 to 14. 28 a barrel. Brent crude down by just 3. 3 . Its now trading at 20. 73 andrew meantime, an update on the pandemic and the numbers we bring you every morning about where we stand heres where we do stand global cases now are at 2. 9 million. In perspective, cases in the United States are at 965,000, closing in on 1 million. 288,000 of those cases are from new york state with another 109,000 of them in the neighboring new jersey yesterday new York Governor Andrew Cuomo outlined the states plans to reopen the economy in phases beginning on may 15th now, the first phase involves construction and manufac
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Written for the New York Times of Foreign Affairs and the new republic and other publications of that sort. Hes also an emmy nominated producer of a documentary series on showtime. Viewing in march. Its called the trade and its about International Human trafficking. William is a graduate of Columbia University International Affairs and also abhe lives in new york and is a frequent contributor to the discourse around several hot button issues around the world. Please join me in welcoming William Wheeler to our discussion tonight. Thank you guys for coming out. Im going to read a little bit to give you a flavor of what we are talking about and then the two of us will talking conversation for about and a half hour then we will open up to questions. Be thinking about any probing insightful questions you want to ask. This passage comes from when i tried to do this book is look at the cycles of Foreign Policy of the u. S. That are behind entrance themselves across south america and are a big