The chance for isolated thunderstorms. Just that unsettled weather for today. For the coast the daytime highs in the mid to upper 50s around the bay. Upper others to low 60s and low to mid60ss inland. I will show you future cast hour by hour through the rest of the day, coming up in just a few minutes. Lets check this with traffic and we have the wet slick roadways. Be extra careful as you hit the road this morning and give yourself a few extra minutes. With very quite a few things going on. First off bay bridge toll plaza. You can see traffic backed up. The metering lights are on and we are seeing delays almost to the maze. That back up really slow and go off the east shore freeway. Starting to see brake lights as well. Plus we have a crash as you get past the toll plaza. Near the metering lights and its over to the right shoulder. We had one lane blocked as you head into San Francisco. Better news on this trouble spot southbound 880. A rolled over vehicle. Its cleared out of lanes. I
Because we lost control of covid19 today went higher. The the s p gaining and nasdaq gaining 1. 02 . Hospitality and leisure. Has the market lost its mind no we are dealing with cross currents any time stocks get hammered, it seems to trigger visceral vaccine reaction good news bails out. On the one hand we know the cavalry is not coming. It is going to be in the form of at least one, pfizer vaccine, wont reach us until spring. In the meantime the virus is out of control we had 162,000 cases yesterday we are in a rough winter earnings from cisco, the networking type and Applied Materials and walt disney which needs no introduction. It is looking like well have a smooth transition from the Trump Administration to the Biden Administration thats a huge strange and even last week at this time, a notion of trump refusing to make plans to vacate the white house. I am sure you are sick of hearing it could the good earnings continue if you are worried of the virus and encouraged by the vaccine
Lets break it down with mike mckee. Is a it is michael it little bit odd. On the headline, 100. 9 is lower than it was in the month of august or september, rather, when it was 101. 8. You would expect that maybe the present situation would be causing people concern because of the coming closures of some businesses as covid cases spike but the number comes in at 98. 9 at up from 104. 6, up from 98. 9. Turnabouting quite a in the way people are looking at the economy. The interesting thing here is this bemay see is reasonably good news for donald trump because if you are looking at the economy, stupid, as the old saying goes, you are looking at the economy as it is right now, and the economy as it is right now is better. The employment number is something Everyone Wants to look at in the set up to next week. Jobs number is an improvement, so those who think we are going to have a dismal jobs report next week might be in for a surprise, at least according to the underlying Consumer Sentim
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
Well despite the fact that we speculative trading should be curved up, well see how yum china is doing but a muted debut so far here in the city. We are expecting a Bank Decision highly expected to stay on hold here today. Also with the ecb as well. Watching the euro very closely. Did gain yesterday on the back of a report that some ecb officials having a little more confidence in the recovery from this pandemic ahead of its policy meeting. Theyre likely to hold. Well see what they say about the strength of the currency. 118 for the zero dollar. Pound still under pressure here. Things like the seems like the e. U. May be take manager Legal Proceedings or measures here to stop the withdrawal from this deal that Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been play to play out here. Your indonesia rupia as well. Recovering a bit on concerns about the Central Banks independence. Government think ceying it was opposed to the plan of a monetary board being set up at b. Y. Well dig deep beer shah in a