Market insight and analysis. You're listening to the opening bell of CNBC, Squawk on the Street.

Good Friday morning. Welcome to Squawk on the Street. I'm David Faber, along with Morgan Brennan and Mike Santoli.

We're live from Post 9 right here at the New York Stock Exchange. Let's give you a look at futures as we get ready to open a shortened trading session today, of course, this day after Thanksgiving. You can see we are looking for a slightly lower open on all the major averages. European markets have been open for some time. Let's take a look and see what the tone's been like over there. As you can see, other than the footsie, all ahead for the session so far.

Ten-year note yield, crude oil, you ask, and we always like to answer as well.

As you can take a look at our 10-year note-yield 178, and WTI remains below 60.

Let's get to our roadmap this morning.

It does start with, well, what you'd expect, the shopping surge.

Facing a condensed holiday season,

retailers raking in a record 4.4 billion online on Thanksgiving Day. This is ahead of, of course, what is traditionally the busiest shopping day of the year today. Plus, the final trading

day of November, and stocks pointing to a lower open on this holiday shortened session.

And Buffett thwarted the Oracle of Omaha's latest attempt to put his cash horde to work,

attempting to buy tech data, is outbid by Apollo Global.

We're going to begin with retail's busiest day.

And Parnie Reagan is at the Woodbridge Center Mall with what to expect this weekend as the holiday shopping season officially kicks off.

Hey, Cort.

Hi, good morning.

Happy Thanksgiving to you, Morgan.

So here we're starting to see the second wave of shoppers come out to the mall.

You know, they do those early doorbuster deals now at all the big box stores, the department stores.

That's on Thanksgiving.

You even had some early Black Friday deals as early as October.

Still, today is expected to be the busiest day of the year for retail.

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