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
Good morning, everybody. Im becky quick and welcome friyay were watching the equity futures. Three down days in a row, but the dow did make a pretty stunning recovery, down actually over 300 points after the numbers at 8 30 yesterday that showed that initial jobless claims were higher than anticipated. Ended down by 20 points at the end of the session this morning dow futures down about 13, s p s p are flat lining, nasdaq basically flat lining too well be watching this closely to see how people shoring things up you as we head into this weekend. And also take a look at what is happening in the treasury market the ten year which yesterday fell back below 7. 0 and now is 7. 26 . Lets talk about what happened last night. President trump and former Vice President biden making their case to the American People on dueling town halls i was sitting there with my remote going back and forth, both events focusing on the Trump Administrations handling of tGlobal Pandemic. Do you support herd immu
They are higher on this monday trying to work their way back from last wem wooeks sell off. Jon, i go to you first you saw enough in the sell off in big tech to put some money back to work you added to things you had. Why . I saw a lot of institutions doing that when that wave starts picking up, i start paddling faster. I rounded up certain stocks like after that split in apple. I needed to add shares to get myself to a more tradeable lot size than some of these odd lots after you get through a stock split. You end up with instead of 11,000, maybe you want 15,000 shares or whatever it is they were so accommodating letting us get to those levels thank you for that for the folks that pushed it down there. Micr microsoft was down in the premarket. It made the big turn after people were reacting to the news in oracle and tiktok and then its up 4 there was a lot of constitutional interest in many of the names of those battery stocks are you making a statement here are you making a statement
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Dieds. Capitol rotunda who on july 17, lying in state and waiting for the potential bidenl of v. I. P. S. s, joe and mike pence expected and we are expecting to see at least one Supreme Court justice, justice sotomayor. The body of john lewis will continue to lie in state outside of the east front of the capitol so the public can pay respects and allow for social distancing. This is a live look now outside that east front with the flag at half staff at the u. S. Capitol. We will wait here a moment or two to see some of the v. I. P. s gathering inside the row tuppeda. You are watching live here on cspan. . Live coverage will continue here on cspan. The service held earlier today. We expect the arrival of a number of dignitaries and v. I. P. s to pay their respects and very shortly, the casket of john lewis will be brought down the steps so the public viewing can begin this evening and will continue into tomorrow. When live events resume, well resume our live coverage here on cspan. We a