Market insight and analysis. You're listening to the opening bell of CnBC, Squawk on the Street. Good morning and welcome to Squawk on the Street. I'm David Favour with Mike Santoli and Leslie Picker. We're at Post 9 on the New York Stock Exchange. Of course, Carl and Jim have the morning off. Let's give you a look at futures as we get ready for the, what do you call it penultimate? That's right. Thank you. Thank you. Penultimate day of trading ahead.

All right.

Our roadmap begins with that fact.

In fact, those two days left in the trading year.

Big Tech coming off a rough day last week.

A number of sectors as well under pressure this month.

Shears of Boeing are down after South Korea ordered an inspection of all 737, 800

planes. That's the model involved in that deadly crash over the weekend. And remembering the life

and legacy of former President Jimmy Carter who passed away last night. And that's where we begin.

Former President Jimmy Carter has died at his home in Plains Georgia.

Carter was 100 years old. He was the 39th president serving in the White House from 1977 to

1981. Carter was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for undertaking peace negotiations,

campaigning for human rights and working for social welfare. Carter's death begins a series of memorial services that will take place in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, in Atlanta, home to his presidential library, then to Washington, where he will lie in state at the Capitol.

President Biden declaring January 9th as a national day of morning. The NYSC and NASDAQ are both set to hold moments of silence minutes from now to honor Carter's legacy.

Remarkable to live 40 plus years as a former president and there's a lot of assessments going on, you know, of his life.

You know, just in terms of kind of, you know,

even though it was considered to be a very dark economic moment when he left, Wall Street

relevant stuff, he appointed Paul Volker. And towards the end of his term, of course,

after, of course, very significant inflation under Miller prior to that. And, you know, and then,

even though it's not really kind of like a top line

priority or considered to be one of his policy pushes, deregulation started under Carter.

Of the airline industry, energy, communication. So obviously that's just a real narrow

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