SQUAWK BOX, THURSDAY 31ST MARCH, 2022

Crude prices fall on news that President Biden will release the largest ever volume of strategic oil reserves – the third time in six months. There are intelligence reports that Russian military top brass is deliberately misinforming President Vladimir Putin about personnel and territorial losses in Ukraine. Chinese March economic data suffers a double-whammy in March with both manufacturing and services contracting for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic. And in the U.S., markets are due to end Q1 following their worst performance since the start of 2020.