Highs. Coming up a busy news day, and a series of big interviews as well. The ceo of gap, jonah snngal, her first interview since taking the job in march talking about the post covid lavin escape and the partnership with kanye west. Plus we have patrick frisk with his partnership with steph curry. We will discuss the fierce competent anything footwear. And salesforces deal to buy slack is expected to be announced today after the bell we should get those details. And sales details also out after the close. Looking forward to that. Slack up a little bit today. Lets get to the Market Action mike santoli is tracking it. As stocks moving higher but off the highs of the session. For three weeks they have been mostly sideways around the recent highs right now we are a little less than 1 above the intraday high from november 9th. Est that was the day the election was called. Then you had the vaccine from pfizer that was right in here intraday high. At a record. 67 above the march 23rd low righ
The gloom crew. They have been wrong, wrong, wrong. We will reassess. We start strong with james bevan in a moment. Francine we have a lot of Economic Data that could support the rally or not a little bit later. Consumptionat price and other things we need to watch out for. Lets get to first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Joe biden ritika joe biden wants to change the slogan from America First to americas back. Restore u. S. Ties with International Organizations that President Trump spurned over the last four years. President trump heads to pennsylvania in his campaign to overturn Election Results there. He will meet with state republican lawmakers examining accusations of voting impropriety. Pennsylvania has already certified that joe biden won the election. Trump supporters complained that observers were not allowed to be close to virga two workers counting votes. U. S. Health officials are working on guidance to shorten the 14 day quarantine period if they are exposed
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
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I turn to you first, laura set the scene first. How does the market look to you . What are you focusing on its really, really an interesting time in the markets right now. You have this dichotomy where were seeing some strength in the markets. I think were a little off today but youre seeing some read through or look through in the market to say, hey, were going to see optimism on the other side however the economy hasnt quite caught up yet to the markets i think we are going to need and we need to focus on making sure that the legislature realized we still need stimulus, we need the consumer thats twothirds of this economy back in full swing. Not getting it. Not right now what does that mean if i tell you were not getting it, were not getting it any time soon. Soon is relative as well, right . Theres a lot of levers that can be pulled here i think that were getting things together and, you know, i wish we could get it during december at some point youre right, it does not look like it