Good Tuesday Morning welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt. Its a mixed fwoog day retail earnings, amazon pharmacy, covid19 restrictions, fed speak. Were going to begin this morning on capitol hill as both Mark Zuckerberg and jack dorsey testify before Senate Judiciary on censorship, suppression, and, of course, the 2020 election our Julia Boorstin is monitoring this and can tell us what happened so far. Julia . Well, carl, senator Lindsey Graham focusing on what he sees as a need to revise section 230, thats the rule that protects social media platforms for legal liability for content. He says facebook and constituenter wetwitter were making editorial decisions and far more transparent standards are necessary. He called out the Mental Health risks associated with social media use. On the other side of the aisle, richard bloomenthal, he is calling for breakup of the platforms. Mark zuckerberg supports change to section 230 dorsey pointing out they need to walk a f
For those not voting this year you can call us at 202 . 488003 we begin with a story from the Associated Press this morning about early voting. A record avalanche of early votes has transformed the 2020 election. You can see pictures of folks voting in durham, North Carolina for the beginning goes like this. More than 22 million americans have already cast ballots in the 2020 election. A record shattering avalanche of early votes. The pandemic has transformed the way the nation votes. 22. 2 million, thats as a friday night, ballots submitted, representing 15 of all votes cast in the 2016 election. Even as eight states are not yet reporting their totals and voters still have more than two weeks to cast ballots. Americans rushed to vote, leading that a record of 150 million votes may be cast and turnout rates could be higher than any president ial election since 1908. The story goes on to say that so far, the turnout has been lopsided with democrats out in 42 republicans by 21 states. Re
Politics at home and abroad for years to come. The ipo has taken a dramatic turn with jack ma and other executives summoned by regulators. The company ahead of scrutiny. Shery breaking news out of south korea. We are getting the october Consumer Price numbers. Month for month, we are seeing a contraction of 0. 6 , really missing expectations of analysts. Not to mention it is a slow down and Inflation Numbers from the previous month. Not surprising given we had a pickup because of the weather related issues. We had monsoon season. And lowerlf Pressure Energy prices. Growth of prices is only. 1 which is a deceleration from the previous year. Not to mention it is under analysts expectations. Only in october we saw bright about 30 lower on average compared to a year ago so we are getting pressure on both numbers. For now, lets turn to the market. We are seeing u. S. Futures slightly higher online. Lets turn to sophie in hong kong. S p adding about 1 10 of 1 at the start of the session in a
Collectively have map of the system necessary to record peoples deaths in a way that protect livelihood. List is not only dishonor sacrifices but to creates unnecessary suffering how is it possible to assess with a large share of dust in the noncovered year go unreported . If mortality data of any kind is being reported in the Public Domain according to the 2019 mortality report. And to on death in real time and then to generate the reliable cause of death we look at examples of countries have started off for those a struggle to produce accurate and timely data what can we do and what other Innovative Strategies are being tested what can we see on the Global Community and this work and how to remove this further up the agenda . And with those vital strategies the assistant director general for Data Analytics of the who Just Launched their own initiative and Aaron Nichols with Vital Statistics at the us center for Disease Control so lets get started now i will turn it over. Thank you so
Climbing and nasdaq pole vaulting 2. 26 september has still been ugly. Ive been warning you that this is historically the worst month of the year. Ever since august ended, complete with a nasty tenday close and thats precisely what we got but now that september is almost over, lets focus on the future meaning next weeks game plan. It starts on monday when we get results from the mighty four industries which dominate the rv and motor home industry. When the pandemic first hit, ford sold off hard as investors figured wed have a normal recession and rv sales get slaughtered. Sure enough, we have a slowdown and mass unemployment and an incredible boom in the rv business because these things represent one of the only safe way to go on vacation. Since then, thor stock soared but tends to pull back every time people get excited about a potential vaccine. Lie i can th i bet rvs stay longer than you might expect tuesday we hear from companies that can potentially deliver upside surprises that m