Nearly 2,000 americans died of the deadly disease yesterday, the highest death toll since early may. As daily infections now top 100,000 for nine straight days. In fact, yesterday, 143,000 plus. Businesses are faltering so we are going to take you live to chicago, the city that may be the epicenter of the next major lockdown. Meanwhile, reliance on the cloud more important to business than ever before. And we talk to a ceo about how it clears the workfromhome runway of any debris for the biggest businesses in the world. This is a fox business exclusive and they are publicly traded. Baby yoda the hottest new star in disneys Magic Kingdom but will streamings popularity have the power to offset its shuttered parks when it reports earnings after the bell . Our power panel is about to give the mouse house stock an inspection. First, this fox business alert. Even Federal Reserve chairman jay powells measured calm and assurance that the recovery has been faster than expected, not enough to so
Cases are stuck. If you go back into lockdown, you will have a revolt. I am more interested in china. We broke the story that they are looking this was reuters they are looking a little more when it comes to renminbi. I did spend a good of time looking this up, on sunday, china clearly said it was trying to push to have a bigger international this means more pboc report. Reutersst report from we broke saying that china will remove a countercyclical factor in the yuan bay point in that direct and may point in that direction. Halt, shelf will its plan to let hedge cut to let hedge funds conceal stock holding. That is a big decision. That is just breaking. Thatll have to see where leads this morning. Futures up six. Dow futures up 20. We will do the data check in a moment. But now, first world news with ritika gupta. Ritika Amy Coney Barrett has been sworn in as a justice of the supreme court. Boothsst of two required administered. Every republican but one voted in favor. Chief Justice Jo
Down almost 3 at one point. Jack ma said to surge up the wealth table after a mega dual ipo. Expecting to raise almost 35 billion in hong kong and shanghai viewed Sheldon Adelson rolls the dice in las vegas. He is said to be extorting the sale of his flagship casino which cost more than 6 billion. Shery lets get started with a quick check of the markets right now. We are seeing u. S. Futures opening pretty flat after we saw u. S. Stocks falling the most in the month and the regular session. The s p 500 down 1. 9 . It was the biggest drop since early september. We have the ongoing fiscal stimulus impasse, now on its third month. We also have surging coronavirus cases. Boeing falling on chinas plans to sanction the company over sales to taiwan. We have the u. S. Approving another potential 2. 4 billion of antiship missile fuel to taiwan. The vix closing above 30 for the first time in almost two months. We saw strength in the u. S. Dollar. Take a look at oil prices. Wti rebounding a littl
Welcome to squawk alley. Im jon fortt. David faber and Morgan Brennan are here a lot to get to today, including winners and losers from last nights Golden Globes. Well begin with todays market drop, though stocks are off the lows, actually at the highs of the session. Bob pisani has whats driving todays down swing and maybe swing a little back up more than a little. We almost went positive a few moments ago on the s p 500 heres the intraday. This is similar to friday. The low print but v was there at the open friday we tended to have faded into the middle of the day, looked more like that. Well see if the same pattern happens. For the moment, we touch even going on the s p ill show you the sectors here cyclicals tend to be most affected energy on the upside today mostly the big integrated companies that are up, shale down, e banks down but off the lows same with transports not a good day for the transports overall retail is down, but again, off the lows thats the general pattern you se
, folks. Im glad you can be here. I am tyler mathisen. A new contender emerges to solve the tiktok drama. New York Community bank savior Steven Mnuchin said he will lead a group to buy the app from the chinese owner. Plus a trio of real estate destroys here. Rent stabilization and using a. I. To build homes and using sports stadiums in its latin it should be stadia. Stocks lower today following a hotter than expected ppi. You have got wholesale prices rising 1 6 of a percent of her break compared to an estimate of. 3. There you see the dow industrials down a third of a percent. And nasdaq composite is 1. 4 . Tesla, the worst performer in the nasdaq. 100 today. It is down 20 so far in march and off by almost 4 today. Nvidia, right behind it. That stock has been down four of the last five days. It is almost 3 as we speak, tyler. Lets start with the big report on squawk box. Former secretary Steven Mnuchin says he is putting together a group to buy tiktok. He said it will cost a lot but h