SQUAWK BOX, FRIDAY 8TH DECEMBER, 2023

A.I. stocks help the Dow and S&P 500 out of a three-day rut with positive announcements from Amazon and AMD helping Wall Street back into the green ahead of today’s non-farm payroll data. The yen hits a four-month high versus the dollar but the Nikkei is down on comments from the BoJ governor Kazuo Ueda who signalled that the central bank may start to unwind its ultra-loose monetary policy. In energy news, WTI rises above $70 per barrel but crude prices remain on track for their seventh straight week of losses. Saudi Arabia and Russia have urged other Opec nations to join them in deepening supply cuts further. And we are live in Brussels where euro finance ministers are convening. German Finance Minister Christian Lindner tells CNBC he is confident that a resolution to his country’s budget impasse is imminent.