Saying china is the greatest threat to democracy worldwide. The u. S. The bloomberg u. S. Dollar index. Crude getting a lift after an opec agreement that came through. Theyre going to be keeping curbs in place in terms of production but we could see on a month by month basis some of those curbs being removed. Agrees to ease cuts more gradually. Gold about 1 10 of 1 lower. Bitcoin using some of its sheen and declinings extensive 1 . With all that in mind, lets find out what is happening in new york. Karina we start with the news on pfizer. It slumped on reported may ship only half of the vaccines it planned to this year. Issues supply chain will cut it to 50 million. Anthony found she is taking the u. K. For rushing to clear the pfizer vaccine. Moderna claims it shows what it claims is durability. Republican Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell is calling for a smaller more focused stimulus package for the u. S. Economy as democrats scale back demands to find a route forward. The base
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
To increased economy. There is a one month to in germany, not good for our market, same thing in france and a Record Number of new cases in america over the last seven days. Thats not good either and a time clearly running out for stimulus package before the election. We will ask larry kudlow about that. Dow industrial 900point drop yesterday, dead flat at the opening of this morning, pretty much the same story for the s p, modest rebound for the nasdaq. This is the big day for big tech, apple, amazon, google and facebook will tell us how they are doing financially. Report on this about 4 00 p. M. Eastern this afternoon. Extreme importance because these are the most important and powerful countries in the world. Their stocks have had a terrific run, but they have come off their highs and we will ask if the blue is coming off the big tech. Campaign headline, joe biden leaves his house again. Today hes off to tampa, florida and so is the president. The latest poll shows a dead heat, 48,
Companies pull their advertising from. 23 years ago that sovereignty was handed over to China Hong Kong sovereignty and with 190 arrests earlier in the day this wednesday and now up to 300 it appears that rule is tighter than ever demonstrators were out protesting the strict new security law imposed by china they were met by a heavy Police Presence in hong kong have been forcing that new law targets the session terrorism subversion and collusion with Foreign Forces but those opposed say defectively marks the end of the one country 2 systems structure which has given hong kong its autonomy from the chinese mainland. Some for home on one thing the central authorities are determined to see an end to the chaos and riots over the past year and secondly the central authorities a determined to protect the majority of law abiding. Citizens in hong kong they should be protected from a handful of people who are causing harm and damage the british Prime Minister bars johnson has said the law thre
Again. Microsoft, amazon all hitting record highs the nasdaq flirting with another record close despite the Broader Markets selling off. 59 minutes left of the session sar yash sara, were down. 5 . We have big guests coming your way well be speaking with Loretta Mester about the economic signs she is seeing in america and how the fed is weighing the spike in cases. And the rollback of the reopening measures across this country. Shes a Voting Member of the fed. Plus, 150 million, that is how much Deutsche Bank agreed to pay in the settlement with regulators over the dealings with Jeffrey Epstein Deutsche Banks ceo will join us to talk about that settlement and a whole lot more an important update on the business lets get straight to the big stories were watching with one hour left of trade mike santoli tracking the market meg terrell has details on a 1. 6 billion as part of the operation warp speed effort to battle the coronavirus and get a vaccine. And phil lebeau has the latest on the