White house in the east room. With 400 of his closest friends. Thanks to mary a parker. Emily wilkins is covering the biden campaign. Emily the Vice President began his day in delaware. He visited the grave of his son beau biden. He said his sons passing was part of the reason he decided to launch this third for president. He visited scranton pennsylvania and is now just leaving philadelphia. We are expecting him on the stage in wilmington, delaware. We do not know whether we will be able to have a president ial announcement at that point, but we are expecting joe biden to address the nation. David Emily Wilkins will be with us throughout the evening as well as she covers the Vice President s campaign. The markets have been watching the election closely. We turned to Abigail Doolittle for what they are telling us today. What are they saying. Abigail we have investors interested in stocks. A very big rally on our hands. The s p 500 up 2 , its best day since june. Investors wanting in. I
1800. Our guide as park ranger matthew. We are standing in the old house of representatives a building we Call Congress hall, although originally was billed as a county courthouse for philadelphia for most of its history, thats exactly what it was. But in the years that the city of washington d. C. Is being built, philadelphia serves as our temporary u. S. Capital. This room serves for the house of representatives, the second floor of the building we will see in a moment was United States senate, the house of representatives each representative at that point in our history represented 30,000 people. We had a population in our first census of about three and three quarters of 1 million. We had 106 members of the house, that would sit in this room. And eventually from 16 states, and the story of philadelphia as the u. S. Capital is a story that were taking a new constitution and actually operating it, doing things like adding new states to the original 13. Also, the bill of rights would
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
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