Welcome to squawk box. Im becky quick along with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. Futures are indicated higher this morning, triple digit gains for the dow up by about 167 points but yesterday was a big down day for the markets. Dow was down by over 400 points, 1. 4 the s p and nasdaq done evz nasy even more. This morning s p indicated up by about 25 and nasdaq looks like it would open up by over 100 points fairly significant obviously everybody watching what will be happening with the stimulus talks with the deadline that nancy pelosi has said for later today. Lets take a look at the treasury markets ahead of that, you will see that the ten year looks like it is yielding 0. 777 so a little stronger yields for the treasury markets right now but andrew, obviously washington is where people are watching and that is exactly where well go because House Speaker nancy pelosi and Steve Mnuchin are saying that they are making progress in their latest stimulus talks with time running short of
70 billion leveraged buyout. Jason stocks, bonds, and a bit of basketball. Wall street is looking at Sports Betting. Carol and we have amtraks turnaround plan. You may not like it. Jason here is joel weber on the issue. Lets start by talking about trains. Its a big travel week. Maybe people taking a train, flying, but amtrak is in a bit of a pickle. Joel amtrak has been a money loser for years. It has a new ceo who came from the airline industry, and devin sat down with him to talk about his plan. A lot of people who are amtrak fans dont really like this plan of his. But it could lead amtrak to be profitable. Carol delays, delays. Never on time, right . Jason it is Richard Anderson, the former ceo of delta, not making a lot of friends out there. Maybe some people making friends, or at least feeling better about the economy, is almost everyone. Peter coy talks about this 180 folks have done looking at the economy. Joel just a couple months ago, it was like rain clouds out. Now it is win
Of basketball. Wall street is looking at Sports Betting. Carol and we have amtraks turnaround plan. You may not like it. Jason here is joel weber on the issue. Lets start by talking about trains. Its a big travel week. Maybe people taking a train, flying, but amtrak is in a bit of a pickle. Joel amtrak has been a money loser for years. It has a new ceo who came from the airline industry, and devin sat down with him to talk about his plan. A lot of people who are amtrak fans dont really like this plan of his. But it could lead amtrak to be profitable. Carol delays, delays. Never on time, right . Jason it is Richard Anderson, the former ceo of delta, not making a lot of friends out there. Maybe some people making friends, or at least feeling better about the economy, is almost everyone. Peter coy talks about this 180 folks have done looking at the economy. Joel just a couple months ago, it was like rain clouds out. Now it is winter, and suddenly the sky seems to be opening up and everybo
Classes for you. Futures in the United States, the s p 500 on a three day losing streak. Look at the euro. 1. 08. The politics, the risk diminishes a little bit. A confluence of different pressures taking us there. Alix part of that has to deal with the new pressures. The pound, look at that, 1. 24. That is up 0. 8 . Gold is going nowhere. It is treading water. Crude oil is up about 0. 6 . Jonathan we start with the French National debate last. Macron and le pen coming out on top. Our Deputy Europe chief covers french politics joining us now. Lets start with macron. Where did he strike his blows . I would caution you on saying this is an actual win for him. He went into this as a potential frontrunner, tied with le pen. What he needed to do was maintain that position. It is fair not to say that he maintained that position. Two polls since the debate last peoplehow that 29 of thought macron did best in the debate. That is better than anybody else. That is a good thing. He probably conso
In bit of graphics showing up that were opening flat. What is happening with the euro in little bit higher. The dollar is trading lower. This is interesting. Why . Not a listening to Stanley Fischer. The dollar is currently flat. Over the past few days, a continuation of a decline in the dollar. Clearly, weakening story not abiding the tour rate hike as soon as this year. The meeting to get through. A look at four currency i want to to keep an eye on, the turkish lira. Were seeing the weakening first the dollar. The u. S. Dollar on a tragic weekend we saw, the terrorist attack. Lifecost in terms of human and concern when it comes to the asset classes. Copper is rallying higher. One copper asset we will look at. Glencore, how is that trading going . Copper off some of the assets as they try to reduce data low. Spikes almost 3 higher this morning. Tries to reduce the debt load. Is flat. Could we get a sweetened deal for the brewer . Deal to 43f the pounds. The deadline looming on wednesd