Good morning, everybody welcome to squawk box on cnbc. Im becky quick here with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. A gain of just over 1 the dow now at 25,000. Now the dow is indicated up 162 points the nasdaq closed at its highest day. Now about 2 from its alltime high thats the run youve seen since the lows back in march treasury yields. Theyve ticked a little higher the 10year looks like it is yielding 0. 75 crude oil prices yesterday, crude was up about 4 percent on this expectation that opec plus especially russia will extend those cuts put in place that was good for 4 as seen yesterday. Crude up by 1 to 37. 16 all of this against a tricky back drop. It is powering higher well talk to a lot of folks that will help us through this the need for Solutions Former white house and ceo of j j and they have big news on all of this. Getting an update of what has gone on. Reporting a day of mostly calm in washington, Late Afternoon in st. Paul, staging the protesters protesters ran past the
Rule out state involvement in the hack at the ministry of defence, but he refused to confirm reports that china was behind it for reasons of national security. We cant release further details of the suspected cyber activity behind this incident. However i can confirm to the house that we do have indications that this was the suspected work of a malign actor and we cannot rule out state involvement. This incident is further proof that the uk is facing rising and evolving threats. Threats. Grant shapps also apologised to Armed Forces Personnel whose names, addresses and bank details were potentially compromised in that hack. Its understood 272,000 people may have been affected. He set out an eight point plan to support them and announced a full investigation. Varne. Meanwhile, investigation. Varne. Meanwhile, beijing has strongly denied those reports that its behind the hack, saying the accusations are completely fabricated. And are completely fabricated. And in scotland, john swinney sa
Replaces humza yousaf, who sent his own official letter to king charles earlier confirming he was stepping down. Speaking from the front bench for the final time in the role, mr yousaf said that his heart would forever belong to scotland and next to worcester, where a woman has admitted to being part of a global monkey torture network. Holly legresley has posted more than 130 videos and 20 photos of the animals being tortured to onune the animals being tortured to online chat groups. The 37 year old pleaded guilty to separate charges of publishing obscene images and encouraging animal cruelty. Stormy daniels has told cruelty. Stormy daniels has told the court in the us that donald trump told her that having sex was the only way she was going to get out of a trailer park. The former adult film star has been revealing intimate details about that alleged encounter with the former president , as she testifies at his hush money trial. She claimed that he wore satin pyjamas when he greeted h
Today european and African Leaders agreed on emergency measures to evacuate thousands of migrants stranded in libya before they to go on the Auction Block will the plan work also coming up a candlelight vigil to honor a convicted war criminal in croatia supporters of a slobodan prayag gather to remember him after he took his own life in a u. N. Court room. And germanys two main parties begin talks on forming a Coalition Government amid some bitter divisions can they cut a deal and can they form that stable government that uncle americal keeps talking about. Plus the cost of the brant crude it rises past the sixty dollars mark opec agrees to continue output cuts so can we expect to pay more at the gas pump. And pope francis is in bangladesh he urges the world to act on the road hinge refugee cry. He says once again without mentioning the word were injured. Its good to have you with us tonight a plan to rescue the slaves that is what european and African Leaders gathered in ivory coast t
Yesterday stocks had steady gains throughout the day the s p 500 snapped a threeday losing streak and the dow was up for the first time in three sessions overnight in asia, nikkei was up by 1. 4 . Hang seng positive, up by 1. 2 shanghai composite up by a half percentage point breaking news out of europe. Uk reached a brexit deal with the European Union willem marx has more on that story. Good morning good morning. This is good news for theresa may, the british prime minister, she can go back to london from brussels and present her cabinet and the country with evidence shes managed to get the conversation moved on to truck being britains future trading relationship with the European Union, a major factor driving that brexit vote last year in terms of the european side, theyre happy that some concerns have been addressed, specifically over the irish border neither side wanted to see a hard border between Northern Ireland and the republic of ireland. Leo varadkar, the irish prime minister