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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 a ....
The heels of positive covid19 vaccine news why are all the opening trades down check out the airlines and cruise stocks, battling rocky seas with major losses a cross the board. Lastly, check out casino names youd think they would rally but no a sea of red. Whats with the break down between positive vaccine data and these trades were back to the old play book in the market, tim yeah we had a week off. S p outperformed amazon 8 in a week boy look at the turn around, look at that move by amazon, big upgrades on the street, maybe its just catching up to the levels 3200 on amazon by goldman, alphabet shares theres Different Things going on as good as the potential vaccine news flow could be, i do think that the reopening trade is moving in reverse theres states that arguably have lost control. So, i think consumers are assessing, but more importantly investors are assessing what consumers may or may not feel comfortable doing in ter ....
Drug that meant people werent dying of this. In the study, only two people died no placebo up against the remdesivir they were using these are early results but promising signs of hope. The dow futures indicated up by about 700 points if we continue like this, that would put the dow in positive t territory. S p indicated up about 75 points and the nasdaq indicated up by about 177. Lets look at the treasury market yesterday, those yields for the 10year were under a little pressure they had come back down even more we were talking about under 0. 7 looking now at the 10year treasury, you will see on this friday, last trading day of the week, the 10year is yielding 0. 64 . Looking at oil and the shut down of Oil Production and cuts of the number of barrels being produced a day around the globe, you did see prices come back down it is not enough to keep up with the dropping demand. Watching that too. This morning, wti is down to 18. 61 ....
Keeping an eye on the treasury market, the 10year right about 0. 638 for that yield. Right now time for the squawk planner. The American Economy has lost about 8. 8 million jobs in the last three weeks economists are expecting the loss of an additional 5 million. Well get Housing Starts data with a decline of 15 for the month of march we have a big lineup of guests starting at 6 30 eastern with black rocks larry fink. We also have ken fine berg, dr. Emanuel, barry diller and House Majority leader mccarthy coming up and cases to top 2 million u. S. Cases top 640,000 new york cases over 21,000 new york governor now squarequi people to wear a Face Covering when out in public that takes Effect Tomorrow becky. Joe ....
Credit market. Thats coming up in the next hour were also going to talk to matt shay about the pain the pain out there with retailers weve heard about furloughs from gap to macys. What kind of unemployment statistics are we going to be talking about for the biggest private sector employer in the United States and do they qualify for relief in the new congressional package. Lets focus on the big stories were watching in this final hour of trade. Bob pisani joins us with a look at the quarter mike has a deeper dive on the s p 500 today. Steve has more on the feds latest move and what the economic signals are telling us. As we get ready to close out the quarter. Boy, good riddance and good riddance, exactly. Treasuries up and rebalancing. Buy stocks, sell bonds might help a little bit towards the close. Corporate Investment Grade flat and high yield down. Reminding us that in a ....