Slightly as the drugmaker did say it will seek that approval for an emergency use for its vaccine by late november. As carl mentioned, wall street looking to snap a threeday losing streak. September retail sales delivering a big beat. Futures up this morning. Carl david and leslie, a couple of things working in the bulls favor today. Three days down. A little bit of room to bounce back on the upside, david. But futures were slightly negative, then we got that open letter from pfizer, saying that we could be looking at potentially a request for an eua by mid to late november and retail sales with that blowout number for the month and year on year the figures, david, reflect a consumer that has put together a nest egg during the course of the summer, and that is continuing to provide some momentum for the consumer. It is funny, i go back to that interview i did with david berman of maybe six weeks ago already, but somebody who tracks retail sales, more closely perhaps than anyone. And in
Good morning welcome to squawk box. Im becky quick with Andrew Ross Sorkin and joe kernen. Welcome back both of you some big moves we are looking at today. Lets look where things stand with the markets dow futures are off by 34. The big news is happening with technology stocks. Down 343 points. Thats big you are talking 3 of the market or 3 decline for the index. Thats a big deal when you look at what happened last week on thursday, nasdaq was off 5 on friday, another one and a quarter percent. You are taurking 6 and a quarter decline. Because of what is happening with the biggest stocks in that. Tesla indicated down 11 in the premarket Asml Holdings down nvidia down advanced microoff off 4 . Those that have boosted that weve seen selling off today you are still looking with these declines at a market at higher levels weve run up quickly and we are seeing it now joe. Watching it head higher watching it ever day, we are like this tech stuff is insane benefitting from what we are all liv
25 of the jobs in america and close to 25 of the nations gdp. Right now, they are feeling good about the economy. A brt survey came out which suggested the rating right now in terms of how they feel about the economy climbed 11 points to85. That is a little above the reading83. Feeling good about the capital sales. Those are up double digits from the last quarter. Plans for hires have particulared higher. They sent out a survey asking ceos and if they think Government Policies are undermining American Free enterprise. 75 of ceos think that. Of those who answered yes, 92 partly s92 cited over regulation. We will talk to the ceo as and what they would like to hear from the administration and what they feel is most important to growth policies in the United States. Thats what we are talking about with the ceos today. I can forecast whats coming. Some buyback stuff. They dont like those. Corporate ceo compensation stuff. A lot of different populous rhetoric coming out of it. What is weird
Ahead of the open. Cloud sales growth accelerates the company also aims for spending more on a. I shares of starbucks under pressure theyre down after a decline in samestore sales it also slashed its forecast were going to be joined exclusive by starbucks ceo just a few minutes from now lets begin this new month for markets after ending a rough april with that selloff. Worst day since january 31st worst month since september 23. Some of it was because theres a belief that really, this happened in the last few hours yesterday that if the fed chief is asked the question, do you think that the next move should be increasing rates or decreasing rates, it puts him in a horrible bind . H what is he going to say . This was literally the narrative i heard yesterday as Interest Rates ticked up. You know that people are going to try to trap the chairman, but hes not easily trapped. No, hes not. Although youre not necessarily in favor of the press conferences, as i recall no, because these people
Blasting out factfree tweets. The pandemic on top of a sluggish economy, a recipe that could mean 50 million americans will go hugry f rhungry for the. Welcome, everyone. Right now in the u. S. , the coronavirus pandemic gets more dire for people, while the political situation gets more desperate for the president. Lets start with the virus. The u. S. Has surpassed 13 million total cases, 4 million in november alone. Think about that. For 26 straight days, the u. S. Has reported more than 100,000 new cases. Now saturday, the most hospitalizations were reported. More than 91,000 americans are in hospital with coronavirus. Experts warn the thanksgiving holiday could trigger a surge of new infections. And now were about to see the impact on the Holiday Shopping season that Small Businesses rely so much for to keep going. Some of the busiest places right now, though, are food banks as Many Americans are forced to seek help for basic needs. Things could get worse if millions of people lose