Welcome to squawk box. Im becky quick along with joe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. Futures are indicated higher this morning, triple digit gains for the dow up by about 167 points but yesterday was a big down day for the markets. Dow was down by over 400 points, 1. 4 the s p and nasdaq done evz nasy even more. This morning s p indicated up by about 25 and nasdaq looks like it would open up by over 100 points fairly significant obviously everybody watching what will be happening with the stimulus talks with the deadline that nancy pelosi has said for later today. Lets take a look at the treasury markets ahead of that, you will see that the ten year looks like it is yielding 0. 777 so a little stronger yields for the treasury markets right now but andrew, obviously washington is where people are watching and that is exactly where well go because House Speaker nancy pelosi and Steve Mnuchin are saying that they are making progress in their latest stimulus talks with time running short of
2020 has been quite a challenging and tumultuous year across the globe. Especially, weve seen some devastating effects. Coronavirus across the world and in our region in latin america and in venezuela. In venezuela, as well, we have an internationally recognized interim government that marked its first year, we have a growing humanitarian crisis that entered a new phase and the pandemic with a crippling Health Care System that has already been unable to provide even the most basic medicine to venezuelan people and at the same time an economy thats in hyper inflationary collapse and social unrest across the country. And we also have, as we look to the end of this year, an election in venezuela, in december, that theyre all set to be a sham parliamentary election among increasing opposition. A top priority for International Allies of venezuelan Democratic Forces should be deterring the global web list of activities and external and nonstate partners that help to sustain maduro and his ba
Logan im peter dobby here in doha youre watching aljazeera is continuing coverage of the disaster in beirut the fires are burning into the night as rescue crews search for more survivors and victims. All countries around the world offer their support to lebanon which is already in the grip of its worst economic crisis in decades. A massive explosion has brought catastrophe to lebanons capital beirut killing at least 78 people and injuring thousands more as a shockwave smash through the city as erupted from a port warehouse where about 2700 tons of Ammonium Nitrate had been stored for years the blast was felt 160 kilometers away in cyprus countries around the world including lebanons traditional photo is. Israel offering help in beirut begins our coverage. A massive explosion in the heart of the lebanese capital the blast sencha quavers across beirut shattering windows destroying buildings. And injuring hundreds. On. The streets were filled with panic and confusion cautiously auto my ca
Number of coronavirus deaths in england and wales could be 41 percent higher than the government has been reporting. A dire warning from the u. N. The number of people going hungry around the world could double because of the pandemic. Chortle for you cheers citizens is to differ on earth to choose to do what we can. Also this will need the volunteers helping to boost irans response to the pandemic. And im piece them to the sport huey for and its Member Associations are holding a teleconference on tuesday to try and work out a way to finish the football season. Us President Donald Trump declaring that he will suspend immigration into the United States via an executive order the u. S. President on twitter said thats in risk. Of the coronavirus pandemic referring to. The invisible enemy added that he has to protect american jobs the announcement drew swift condemnation from some in the u. S. Democratic party the who accused mr trump of distracting people from what they described as his f
The 30year at 3. 222 and today is jobs friday lets look at expectations forecasters say that the economy probably added 160,000 jobs last month. The Unemployment Rate is seen Holding Steady at 3. 5 the backdrop for this mornings report, stocks at record highs the dow closing within points of 29,000 yesterday, 28,956 apple was a big driver shares of the neck giant up more than 2 and its also adding to the gains this morning its up another 2. 20. Apple last trading at 311. 84. On a trillion and a half. Trillion and a half market cap. It was a broad rally, all 11 sectors of the s p 500 closed higher. Are we taking the under on the jobs i just feel like it would be the under on the jobs. Youve got the weird seasonal things that take place. The number was so blow out last time. It revised higher than months before that, too. It seems like eventually theres a regression or whatever you want to call it to the mean. Im hoping its good. 160,000. 160,000 is a lot. Trade continuing to be a huge s