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
Some might like it, it may continue for another day and to have. Another cloak of clouds around, more mild to hot, and semi breezy. Its hot inland and everything continues, a few showers could pop up near the sierra if you are heading that way. That continues into the weekend, very persistent pattern. Its not changing yet. It will by the weekend. There will be a big change in the cooler and windy, but not until we get to late saturday into sunday. So, highs today and your average to above coast, bay, and also inland. Over to sal , now. Thats right, they are clearing it now, but the damage to northbound 101 is where the traffic is. The accident was near 880. The cleaning crew has left opening lanes, however there is still slow traffic. Its getting better. I looked at the photo, and now i can see traffic is getting better. If you want to use 280 instead, it is much better because there is no slow traffic getting into that west valley. 7 02, lets go back to the headlines. Police in antioc
To rotate in. Temperatures in the 60s and 70s. aasome areas way below average santa arosa, some areas where a they should be. Lets ago over to sal now. He has had a few things to talk about. a lets see if there is anything new ato talk about. Nothing new right now traffi ais moving along pretty a well if youre driving on most a of these areas. Although there is a little bit a of slowing out there on some of the acommutes i can show you athat if i put up the traffic a map, theres not much slowing going aon on 580 and 680. There awas slowing going on at the apass. There ais some traffic going over towards the toll please a acin san rafael. 7 01. a back to the headlines. aas of this morning, a california has almost 68,000 a confirmed cases of the coronavirus. a the death toll from covid19 astands at more than 27 in our here in aathe bay area, there a 94 confirmed cases. Virus adeaths were reported ayesterday in santa clara counta as well as San Francisco. According ato the San Franciscoa
Wednesday. Closing the day up by 123 points still on track for major indices to see the third week in a row looking at dow futures s p 500 down by 10, nasdaq down by 25. What happened . Stocks took a dive it was more a product of the percentages were going up for powell to have another cut all but factored in. Bad news has become good news. Good news has become good news if you look at the december percentage cut, it doubled 30 to 60 . October, yes december, yes. Sort of. The market took that as a positive well see what happens today the jobs report is the all important one that hits in 2. 5 hours time. Looking at what happened overnight in asia. The nikkei ended up by about a third a percentage point the hang seng is up just over 1 you are looking at a mixed picture. Not Much Movement for the dax or the ftse a little weakness in italy and spain. Looking at treasury yields coming under pressure on this data in terms of the ism manufacturing numbers and the nonmanufacturing ism we got y
Deal is agreed in the next two weeks. And coming up later, millions of customers are being penalised by staying loyal to their insurance companies, once the financial watchdog. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Our top story, the duke of sussex has begun legal action against the publishers of the sun and daily mirror in relation to alleged phone hacking. Documents have been filed on behalf of prince harry at the High Court Regarding the alleged illegal interception of voice mail messages. A spokesperson said, we confirm that a claim has been issued by the duke of sussex. We have no further comment to make at the current time. Lets get more on this, we are going to speak to a royal correspondent. Just explain what has happened. Two separate but linked legal actions, as you said, against News Group Newspapers which owns the sun, used to own the news of the world, which was probably the most high profile user of hacked voice mail messages and mirror Group Newspaper which owns the dail