Good morning, welcome back to squawk box right here on cnbc this morning. Im Andrew Ross Sorkin along with joe kernen and kelly evans. Becky is off today lets show you where futures stand at this hour maybe 12, 15 hours after President Trump returning to the white house. The dow looks like it would open down marginally about 63 points off, nasdaq off about 83 s p 500 off about 15 points. Lets also show you treasury yields as we speak, well show you the ten year yield right now, you are looking at 0. 763. Meanwhile ill pass it over to kelly. Thanks for joining us this morning. And youve got the news on President Trump. And before we get to that, joe, we were just joking about, you know, you and me we could banter and we were in studio and andrew wasnt and now, you know, were all no, you are in studio still im still here. Ive been here since april and i like it here there is no delay. Is that are you wearing orange or that red i think that were in sync sort of yeah, it was an orangey red
Im tony woods, it is my pleasure to moderatetonights book talk. With my friends jordan and chris. Its what happens when a liberal and conservative jump into a car and drive across the country and thats the question of this book union by the friends jordan blashek and christopher haugh. Jordan is my coworker, conservative and a former marine. Chris is a democratic speechwriter. The this unlikely pair met at lost and became friends but they couldnt stop arguing about politics and in 2016 those arguments got worse and worse though they decided to take a road trip to see america. They did it again and again. They but union is the story of their friendship and how that union changed the way they see themselves. Its also the story of the people they met and the lessons they learnedabout what it means to be an american. In the end union is a story about hope for a betterfuture and a better united states. Offer a warm virtual welcome to chris and jordan and give you a moment to say hello to th
Alongside lisa abramowicz, im jonathan ferro. Tom keene back on monday. The equity market unchanged right now on equity futures. It is the bond market tickets your attention. The worst week for 10 year treasuries going back to june. Lisa very low rates, but it seems like theres at least a little bit of a concern creeping in about the record bond issuance from the u. S. Government. The question is whether this is a momentary blip. Today, people seem to be treating it as a buying opportunity. Jonathan so far, so good this week in terms of expectations. Claimed yesterday, positive relative to expert patients. Cpi hotter, ppi hotter than expected as well. Perhaps fueling that moving treasuries and not just the supply story. Lisa weve had this conversation over and over again, the idea of lagging indicators. In a fastmoving pandemic where you get states reshutting down and people losing confidence, and people are looking to the july sales data shown the last retail sales gain before unemplo
Hearing will come to order. I welcome everybody to this hybrid hearing. Both Ranking Member mister heiss and myself have wanted to have hearings resume in person. Especially when we are in session i made a promise to mister heiss that i would fight for that and today is the fruit of that effort i believe when we were in session, to the extent possible, protecting everybodys health and safety, we can and should be meeting like this. At least in hybrid form those members who are not comfortable or who physically cannot join us in the hearing room are more than welcome to join us through the web. We are happy to have them. We ask everybody, when they are not speaking, to wear a mask that is the guidance and the capitol hill position. That is the guidance of the chairwoman of this committee. It protects everybody i really appreciate that cooperation. Let me see. For members appearing remotely, just a few reminders before i get my Opening Statement. House rules require that we see you so pl
Microsoft overnight. That is being digested as well by u. S. Investors. You have the currency offshore at seven, currently. It is weakened by about 2 10 of 1 . The aussie dollar is looking like that, said he six. The euro is flat. The bloomberg dollar index is weakening, down a 10th of 1 . Lets move it down. The stock was suspended on july the 13th after they failed to get a renewal for their license. Currently trading at 10. It is down 30 . It just reopened after a 10 day suspension of trading. The company saying it is in talks with its creditors over longterm debt. It will continue businesses that dont require that franchise. Noncoret nunc activity. Rishaad china vowing to retaliate for the u. S. Closing its consulate in houston. Protectd it is to information. President trump indicated more such moves might happen. President trump as far as closing additional embassies, it is possible. We thought there was a fire in the one that we did close. Everyone said there is a fire, there is a