And into the fryer good thursday morning welcome to squawk alley. Were at post nine of the new york stock exchange. Dow is down 91 currently the worst drop of the year so far. The big news today though, amazon announcing the finalist for the hq2. We have details. Good morning, carl. And lets go straight to a map of the 20 contenders youll see that most of the locations, they fall in the midwest, south, and east coast of the country away from amazons current home of seattle and the west coast in general where most of the Biggest Tech Companies are. The only city from this coast, the west coast on that list is los angeles. And the only city outside the u. S. Is toronto, canada. It has tons of engineering talent close by. An interesting candidate given the current political environment. Now other contenders include cities that already have ties to amazon or jeff bezos like austin and washington, d. C. , and where he himself bought a home last year the other cities on the list like boston,
Gunmen have taken 170 hostages at the Radisson Hotel in malis capit capitol. Europe has no time to waste. Theyre calling on ministers in brussels today to cooperate in the fight against terrorism. Shares in nike are on a run after they reveal a 2 for 1 stock split and 12 billion buy back program. Good morning, everyone. It is friday. Lets take a quick peek at what u. S. Futures are doing early hours. What we saw yesterday was a pretty flat day of trade. We saw the dow jones off by a couple of points but this morning expecting slight gains. The s p 500 seen up by 4. 5 points and the nasdaq seen higher by 11 points. Look, health care, that was the big outperformer yesterday on the back of United Health care warnings and Energy Stocks underperforming on the back of weakness in Energy Prices but for the weak we want to tell you that we are on track for hefty gains. Some 3 for the major averages. The dow and s p 500 on pace for the best week in six. Quick check on what european trade is doi
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