SQUAWK BOX, WEDNESDAY 24TH JUNE, 2020

The spread of the outbreak quickens in the U.S., with Texas and Arizona seeing a spike in cases, in what top health official Anthony Fauci calls a “disturbing surge”. According to a document seen by the New York Times, the EU will reportedly prohibit American travellers from travelling to the bloc, listing the U.S. alongside Brazil and Russia for inadequate responses to the Coronavirus outbreak. In Munich, prosecutors have released Wirecard's former CEO on €5m bail. Markus Braun had been arrested over allegations he falsified accounts at the German payments company. And in tech news, Dell shares jump by more than 20 per cent on reports the computer company is exploring options for its $50bn stake in cloud services group VMWare, which include selling the holding or buying it outright.