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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 a ....
S p up s p up and the dow indicated up look at what happened overnight in asia. The nikkei opened up in europe where there is active trading, youll see green ar owes across the board. The ftse was up more than half a percent. Youll see at least the 10year is yielding 1. 8 big news, weworks board now weighing two competing Financial Rescue offers. Expected to accept an offer from softbank to take a controlling stake in the company the decision could come as err will early as today the are rescue package from sofk to buy up to 3 billion in shares held by other investors they would also put together 5 billion in loans sources say theyll pay the founder adam neumann up hundreds of millions to leave you are paying him twice. Hes the only one who has made money on this deal. Meanwhile, theyll begin layoffs almost immediately of almost 2,000 people. One of the reasons they delayed the layoffs is they couldnt afford the severance youll ....
Weve seen since the election. The nasdaq is indicated up by 8. 5 points. Well talk to the nasdaqs ceo later this morning. Look at what happened overnight in asia. The nikkei was up by 1. 1 . Markets in china also closed higher with the hang seng up by a half percentage point. In europe this morning, in the early trading thats taking place, you can see things are relatively flat. Across the board. The ftse, the cac, and the dax all sitting within points of where they closed yet. Its been a big couple of days for markets there. Pepsico just out with earnings. The number is a core earnings of 94 cents a share. That Beat Estimates by two cents. Revenue also coming in a little above expectations. Talking about what happened with this quarter, she said they achieved solid Revenue Growth in the First Quarter, underpinned by glob ....
The hang seng was up about half percent. And the shanghai up about. 6 . The European Equity markets. This is the early trade. Relatively flat. The dax is flat. Cac is down less than. 2 . The ftsi up about a. 25 . And the italy index about 1. 5 . And spain just over 1 . And up about 0 30 cents. Brent up about 33 cents. Couple of big stories this morning. Bp reporting overnight. Quarterly profits dropping 80 . That topped expectations, oddly enough. The company says it now could cut Capital Spending further as a result. Ceo expecting prices to recover towards the end of the year as pruszers stop work on fields and demand strong returns. Also dupont is raising its full year guidance. The chemicals and seed producer planning to merge with dow chemical but last year regulators needed more time to review materials related to the deal. And today were expecting results from dow co ....