The latest Covid variant is 1.5 times more contagious than omicron and already circulating in almost half of U.S. states

View in Browser  |  Forward to a Friend Mon, 31 Jan 2022 MORNING SQUAWK EMEA TOP NEWS          GUEST HIGHLIGHTS DJIA 34,725.47 564.69 +1.65%  S&P 500 4,431.85 105.34 +2.43%  NASDAQ 13,770.57 417.79 +3.13%  FTSE 100 7,466.07 88.24 -1.17%  CAC 6,965.88 0.00 0.00%  DAX 15,318.95 0.00 0.00%  Quotes and charts as of Mon, 31 Jan 2022 08:00 AM CET. Top News Sat, 29 Jan 2022 12:14 AM CET The latest Covid variant is 1.5 times more contagious than omicron and already circulating in almost half of U.S. states There are already 127 confirmed cases across almost half of the U.S. of a new Covid subvariant that's even more contagious than omicron. Mon, 31 Jan 2022 07:17 AM CET Disruptions in China can lead to 'ripple-effects' across global supply chain, says HSBC The pandemic has revealed "how lean the supply chain has become. And there is little margin of error," said Parash Jain, global head of shipping at HSBC. Fri, 28 Jan 2022 04:33 PM CET Nobel laureate Paul Krugman says crypto has 'disturbing' parallels with subprime mortgage meltdown "There are disturbing echoes of the subprime crash" in the cryptocurrency market, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman says. Fri, 28 Jan 2022 06:59 AM CET Global smartphone shipment grew for the first time since 2017, new report says Annual smartphone shipment grew 4% year on year to 1.39 billion handsets in 2021 even as the impact of Covid and a worldwide chip shortage hampered supplies. Mon, 31 Jan 2022 12:36 AM CET Goldman Sachs says that 5 stocks on the S&P 500 could rally over 80% this year Goldman Sachs' list of top stock picks includes a bunch of S&P 500 companies, including five that it says have serious potential upside. Guest Highlights – Today on CNBC All times given in CET. 07:00 Oktay Kavrak Product Strategist, Leverage Shares U.S. Markets/Tech 07:30 Nuno Garoupa Professor of Law & Economics, George Mason University Portugal/EU Elections 08:00 Giles Keating Member of the Board of Directors, Bitcoin Suisse AG Guest Host 08:15 Kal Hourd CEO, Guild Esports Earnings 08:45 Alexander Irving Analyst, AB Bernstein Airlines 09:00 Susannah Streeter Senior Markets Analyst, Hargreaves Lansdown Strategy 09:30 Simon Thorne Global Head of Generating Fuels & Electric Power Analytics, S&P Global Platts Europe LNG 10:00 Emmanuel Cau Head of European Equity Strategy, Barclays End of Month 10:30 Tobias Ellwood MP for Bournemouth East, Conservative Party (UK) UK Politics 10:45 Antony Abell Director, Variable Pitch Crypto Terms Privacy Policy Unsubscribe Advertise with us