Market Insight and Analysis. You're listening to the opening bell of CNBC, squawk on the street.

I'm Carl Kington here with Jim Kramer, David Faber, the New York Stock Exchange.

Futures are flat as we get set to close out this record-setting week, and the market balances coronavirus headlines, and more strong earnings from chip makers like nVIDia a fifth month up on

retail sales europe is mixed german gdp not too inspiring yields are set to end the week down

but oil should post a weekly gain our roadmap begins with virus fears coronavirus cases surging again

wall street still headed for strong gains for the week s and dP and Dow up more than 1% the past five sessions.

Plus, shows of Expedia are surging this morning.

The company did beat on earnings.

It suspended its 2020 forecast on coronavirus uncertainty.

And as well, we're going to be talking with the CEO of Roku later this morning, which also reported numbers.

And Jedi blocked a federal judge temporarily halting Microsoft's Pentagon Cloud contract after an Amazon suit.

So for the second straight day, the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus shot higher.

Chinese authorities reported more than 5,000 new cases and 120 more deaths.

The death toll now stands at nearly 1,400.

And total cases, you're getting into the range of 64,000.

As increasingly, guys, the conversation's turning to diagnostics as opposed to the spread itself.

Right.

And there have been a number of articles

that are very subjective about what's happened. Some of them say that, look, they're,

that it could be a 24-day incubation, so what they thought, or they were letting people go

and they shouldn't have. Some of it, I don't know if you heard Secretary Azar, but he said

that they won't tell us anything, which is obviously not encouraging, but some of it, I don't know if you heard Secretary Azor, but he said that they won't tell us anything,

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