Good morning welcome to squawk box. Im becky quick along with yoe kernen and mike santoli. Andrew is off today. Well start things off with the stock futures after some positive vaccine news drove the dow and s p 500 to record highs. Dow giving back some of that ground, down by about 100 point, but remember how far they have marched for the last three weeks. S p is indicated down by about 14 points and then the nasdaq is indicated up by about 12 points. We do have some breaking news from amazon and better that coocoo Bertha Coombs ohas that story they are launching a full Online Pharmacy building on its acquisition of pill pack the new pharmacy is innetwork with major insurers and medicare and patients can pay for their prescription copays with funds from their Health Savings accounts just like they were at any pharmacy and they can confer with pharmacists online or over the phone about their prescriptions. Prime members get free two day shipping, patients who needs meds right away with
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The 2017 performance was the strongest on record. Switch toy says the electric vehicles will drive its future performance. Bloomberg learns that apple is in talks to buy longterm supplies of cobalt directly from the mining industry. Watch the european carmakers on the open at this story. Next turn our attention to what is happening. Lets show you what is gone with the wei. The futures and fair value calculations. Lloyds is fascinating. Attorney money to shareholders. Lets take a look at what is happening with car stocks. But going to talk about all of those stories. At the moment, u. S. Futures are positive. Lets get a sense of what is happening all around the world. Yesterday, european stocks did well. Lets look at what is happening with the yen. Dollar on the front foot. In this big week for the bond market. The walmarts margin store yesterday . That is fascinating. It tells us a lot about the inflation narrative. I think there is a role in wti today. Take a look at what brent is doi
Its a significant step forward for us. From the kick starter edition. Its six times faster, its got double the memory, twice the usb ports, and its filled with these wonderful new creative projects. Theres make arts, which is a digital easel to learn code by painting characters and fractels. Its immediate, and the game mechanic is step by step. You learn how to type simple commands, magic spells we call them. And you see beautiful washes of color and shapes appear before your eyes. Weve also creative a narrative adventure called terminal quest, which i think some people in this audience who came up on the commodore 64 may enjoy. Terminal quest is a mystery, a narrative mystery told step by step, where you use linux command spells to unlock new powers, save your town and borrow into basically a new world. You go down the rabbit hole, you try to solve the mystery, you dont realize it, but youre learning about the linux command line spells that make a lot of the modern world work. Another
You bring lots of different people to the table. Is this mostly parents wanting their kids to be the next Mark Zuckerberg . There is interest from parents, teachers but as we started to take the kid around the world to sierra leone for an sense, there is this sort of rising creative generation of kids who are pulling together resources, software, a bit of design and making things that perhaps the brains in this room as monumental as they are could never have imagined. We met a man. This kid and he was 13 started pulling electronic parts out of the garbage and went to an internet cafe. He looked at what the components did and within a couple years he built a battery. A couple years after that he built his own Radio Station was brought testing across sierra leone. Weve had spoken word artists used to compose and kids build servers and game consoles. The core audience now, obviously a lot of parents and teachers know in order to prepare the next generation they have to speak the language