The last hour after fed chair Jerome Powell and treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin did the same in a hearing before congress. It comes as the cdc panel is meeting right now at this very moment to decide exactly who will be the top priority to get the first doses of the coronavirus vaccine. And then who gets to be in the levels after that. We are going to get you a live report. And one russell 2000 company is making a huge transformation from an Artificial Intelligence chatbot giant to the bank of the future. The ceo of live person introduces us to bella, the banker with a twist. Youve got to hear this. If cryptos are too cryptic for you, you are missing out on the bitcoin boom. The ceo and cofounder of chainalysis is here to explain how he makes Bitcoin Investment secure for everyone from wall street whales to the u. S. Government and irs. You got to meet this company. We are t minus 58 minutes from the cdc voting on just who should get the first batch of covid19 vaccines. The belief is that the first wave of vaccines will go to the 21 Million Health care workers across the country. But then whos next . This as cases in the u. S. Have reached more than 13. 5 million, with over 269,000 deaths and counting. We head to the white house, where blake burman is standing by. Blake, that cdc meeting is happening as we speak. What are you hearing with call it about 58 minutes before we really find out whats going on . Reporter yeah, it is. We have been listening for about the last 45, 50 minutes or so to this meeting, call in virtual right now. This is a group of experts from the group, the Advisory Committee for immunization practices. So far, they are sort of laying out the case as to why the first recipients of a covid19 vaccine should be Health Care Professionals. Going into this, the acip working group had sort of laid out exactly who that might be and it is the following. Those who work in hospitals, longterm care facilities, outpatient facilities, home health care, pharmacies, ems workers along with Public Health officials. I want you to listen to dr. Kathleen dualing who is laying out the argument as to why Health Care Professionals should receive it. We dont have it. Heres what she said. She said quote, vaccinating Health Care Personnel supports the principles of maximizing benefits and minimizing harm through what we are calling the multiplier effect. Theres also some conversation going on as to whether or not when it deals with longterm care facilities, whether or not its the employees of those facilities along with those who live at those facilities should be vaccinated as well. Those are part of the discussions that are ongoing from acip right now. Outside panel of experts who are going to vote one hour from now as to who they recommend should get the first batch of covid19 vaccines. Potentially later this month. Liz . Liz yeah. We will be watching that. Of course, after the bell, the minute the news hits the tape, we will have that as well. Blake, see you later. Thank you. For the markets, it is the outlook on vaccine distribution. The mere fact we are even talking about it. But is it distribution versus d. C. Politics that are moving these indexes right now to record highs . Coronavirus stimulus topic number one as president elect joe biden called for immediate action before introducing his economic team, including treasury secretary designate and former fed chair janet yellen. Here she is. Its an american tragedy and its essential that we move with urgen urgency. Inaction will produce a selfreinforcing downturn, causing yet more devastation. And we risk missing the obligations to address deeper structural problems. Liz yellens call for stimulus echoed by fed chair Jerome Powell and outgoing treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin. Mnuchin meeting with House Speaker nancy pelosi again about covid aid as well as a budget bill needed to prevent yet another government shutdown. Lets get to the floor show. Guys, weve got tom hayes and phil flynn. Is it distribution or d. C. . Tom, you start. Well, liz, there will be no grinch this year and santa claus is coming to town. This stimulus package is a very positive thing for the markets. Its about time they came together and i think secretary mnuchins pulling that 500 billion back from the cares act really helped to drive this, because half of the money for the 908 billion will come from that leftover cares money. You got 160 billion for state and local governments, you got 288 billion for small businesses, unemployment insurance, an extra 300 a week for the next four months, 82 billion for education, 16 billion for health care. A lot of good things in this package. The other thing is, its just the seasonality. The last 25 years, the s p is up 90 of the time between thanksgiving and christmas, and since 1948, when the s p is up 10 through november, 100 of the time its up in december. So there are a lot of tail winds going here. The rotation that we saw in november is real. We have talked to your viewers the last few appearances about banks, defense stocks and energy. Thats going to persist. Energy was up 33 in november. Defense stocks, 23 . Banks, 20 . We like that moving forward. You compare that to tech, only up 9 last month, and this type of early new Business Cycle rotation will continue moving forward. So we like that theme moving forward. We also like, talking about the vaccine, we like walgreens boots alliance. Its been beat down because of the amazon news and other factors. They are going to get a tremendous amount of store traffic with the vaccinations moving forward. We know we are going to have as many as 20 to 40 million vaccinations in the next couple of months, and 100 of people who want a vaccine by the end of may will be able to have a vaccine, according to dr. Fauci and according to the head of operation of warp speed. So a lot of good things to look forward to. Liz as i have said, im putting out both my arms. I want all of the vaccine. I will take any one of them or all three. Phil flynn, here we go. Weve got the nasdaq for the month of november up 12 . Dow up 12 . Of course, the s p up 11 . So december, what will matter the most . Is it that distribution or is it all the machinations of whats going on in washington, d. C. . At the end of the day it will be distribution because the markets known for some time stimulus will come after the election. I think thats been priced in a little bit. Obviously todays comments, you know, from janet yellen, the treasury secretary today, kind of leads into that. But i think its going to be the distribution of the vaccine. Look at fed ex today. Record high. Theyre flying today. An interview with henry schein last week, great interview, probably very good for his stock because i think hes got it right on. Getting this vaccine out to the people, the faster we can get it out, the quicker we can get back to normal. I think this is going to be a huge thing. The vaccine is the missing piece of this economy right now. The stimulus is going to help but thats more shortterm. If we are going to live up to the valuations that we have seen in the stock market, its going to have to come with this vaccine getting widely distributed and the economy getting back to normal. The markets betting on it and so with these transportation names, they will really have to carry the ball. Liz yeah. You know, when were looking at that right now, little bit of selling action with about 52 minutes left to trade. Guys, im just looking at henry schein right now. It is up another 1 . Tom, quickly, though, we did get the november institute for supply management, the ism, this is a Manufacturing Index that lets us know how things are going, it was a miss. It did fall more than expected. And when we were looking at some of the indications there, they mentioned covid19 as really hurting some of the factories because they could not replace employees who had to quarantine. They saw spikes in all of this. Does that then have a vapor trail later in earnings, do you think . Yeah. In the short term, liz, it will have some shortterm impact in q4 and possibly q1. But the market is looking through this. Keep in mind we have had 20 trillion between 12 trillion of global fiscal stimulus, 7. 5 trillion of central bank liquidity. Theres usually a six to ninemonth lag before thats felt in the real economy. That was all put out in spring and early summer so we are just having the benefit that should offset some of the regional shutdowns and slowdowns due to covid until we get this vaccine momentum going over the next few months. Liz great to see you both. Phil, tom. We are watching this market closely. We do have the tenyear yield at. 92. What does that mean . Thats a twoweek high. It means there is not a lot of fear in the markets right now. The fear trade is in the rear view for the moment. The bull bonanza in bitcoin stampeding right alongside these record markets, and one unicorn firm has taken on mission impossible. Building trust in the cryptosphere for wall street, for you and even for crypto cynics. You are about to meet the ceo of chainalysis. Forget siri. 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Liz but for live chat bots, the Artificial Intelligence conversationalists the banks and retail web sites use to help customers remotely, pretty much nobody could have done much banking or buying when the pandemic kicked off and millions of employees were sent home. Liveperson is the company that makes that happen for some 18,000 companies, including home depot, chipotle, to financials like hsbc and gm financial. But now its making a quantum leap. Its banking on what could be the bank of the future with a twist. Bella is this new banking app with a credit card attached but comparisons to the legacy banks end there. Liveperson ceo rob locasio is here to exclusively unveil bella for us. Give us the nuts and bolts of how bella works, because im very interested as we look at all of this, to see exactly how you are different from regular online banks. So we want to power Something Like we see with our platform, conversational a. I. Having these conversations powers trust, powers a different connection and we do this across like you said, 18,000 customers. We had this idea, why dont we really try to go deep on this with a bank and build conversational a. I. That could love you, that you could trust and you could have a relationship with and it could help you with your money, and thats really what we built with bella. Its something, like i said, we set a high bar of love. Our companys all based on Customer Care and building platforms for that but we understand what that can be at its highest level. Why cant a bank love its customers . Its been in the stone ages, most banks. We said lets try to build Something Different and be partners with the banks to do it. Liz how do you love your customers . Explain this to people, because this is already starting to feel very millenial and genx. But its an app, correct me if im wrong, an app and you can actually add in savings accounts but explain how it socalled loves you back. So theres this thing called karma in the platform, and you can put say 20 into this karma account, and that account will go out and it will help others. If you want, if theres somebody out there, you go i want to help others in the world, it does that. Or you can say let me take care of liz next time she buys a coffee. Next time you go to starbucks, swipe your bella card, it will say hey, rob picked up this coffee or bella in itself will just, with our money, in the company, we go ahead and give back while youre buying things and while youre helping others. We look at it as a community. We call them members, not customers. You can contact us all the time, you can message us. Our ceo of that business, he put his phone number, text message, you can text him and talk to him. This is what we believe in. We believe in a higher level of connection. Conversational commerce and staying connected. All thats in the platform. Thats whats really resonating with people right now. They want to be in a place that can help others. They want the bank to help them as they move forward, especially around their money. Liz you have a very creative way of adding money to savings accounts or allowing people to do this. Old school, every second day of each month, you auto debit and try and save, you put 75 or a fixed amount into your bank account on the same day, every month. Millenials and genzers, they dont like that kind of old structure. Explain what you guys do that people can actually customize, randomly how much and when, to me its the when they can add to their savings accounts. We dont look at it as a savings account. We look at it as a goal in your life. It could be a goal to travel to italy or somewhere in the world. We made it kind of fun that you can set Different Things like every time i drink a glass of italian wine, put a dollar into that account. If im doing something, im working out, do something and put it into the account. So we built a way in which we are looking think about it as social behavior. We are trying to say we want to connect your money with goals in your life and help you sort of achieve those goals. On top of that, were building in a Concierge Service to help you book that trip to italy, help you get that trip to italy. We will do that through bella. Not just your money or savings, we will help you actually manifest and get on that trip, getting a travel agent, getting connected to somebody. Thats what were doing on the platform. Liz got it. My producer and i cobbled together what i would see as my random savings list that would automatically have bella transfer fixed amount of money and we can put up what kind of examples people can do. Of course, im a Cleveland Browns fan so if the browns win a game, automatically, it knows to put 75 into my savings . New Ariana Grande single drops, 200. Browns win the super bowl, now were getting hysterical. People can actually customize it to things like this . Yeah. Right now, its customized to transactions you do on the platform but yes, as we build out the platform, we will allow you to do things like external to the platform like a new song comes out or your Favorite Team wins basically, you know, a game. Those are the waz ys we are looking at. Today, what does a bank stand for . Its kind of like safety. I keep my money there so it doesnt get stolen. Our bank covers that. We are fdic insured, all of that. No problem. Beyond that, i want to be able to do things with my money. I want to help others with my money. I want to be able to save and reach my goals. We built the way to do that. Theres no hold. If you have an issue, theres somebody with you 24 louhours a day. You never hold, you never send an email, you never pick up a phone call. Message in, somebodys there and they will help you through your journey on our platform with bella. Liz i want to let people know that its got 25,000 people already signed up and it has just gone live, and speaking of live, your stock liveperson up 51 year to date. Great to see you, rob. We have been covering the russell 2000, you are a russell 2000 stock. The russell has been on a tear, record after record. Great to have you on. Thank you so much. Good luck. Thank you. Liz sitting on the dock of the bay. Not the song, the cruise ships in this country. They are currently empty and idle on the atlantic right now. But now they are actually taking action to pull anchor in 2021, and bring travelers back to the high seas. Whats it going to take . We are about to take you live to the water, to the cruise ships, when the closing bell comes back. Stay tuned. Want to brain better . 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That writedown being offset by a pullback in future spending plans. Okay. Video conferencing rock star zoom bombing out after warning of a potential slowdown in growth on a quarterly basis. That warning coming despite quadrupling its revenue to 777 million in the Third Quarter. That beat expectations by 83 million. Yes, but you know wall streets all about what have you done for me lately. So zoom is pulling back by 15. 9 . Holiday cheer. Little bit of sorts for pandemicbattered travel stocks. In particular, the cruise operators. Some of them are riding a wave of vaccine optimism despite Disney Cruise lines extending its halt to sailings through january. It is one of four major cruise lines with ships based at Port Canaveral, florida. So we sent Ashley Webster right there to the water line. Ashley, welcome. Take us inside the minds of the cruise line operators right now. Ashley right now, they are just keeping their fingers crossed and everything else, liz. We talk a lot about the impact covid has had on many, many businesses who have struggled to survive but when you come here to Port Canaveral, which has huge amounts of normally passenger traffic, over four and a half million passengers came through this terminal last year, it really brings home what has happened. Im right by the passenger screening area in this brand new terminal. The xray machines and metal detectors, come on through, follow me through, and it gives you whoops. They work. Theres just no one here to go through. This is 155,000 square foot terminal, built for Carnival Cruise lines new mardi gras ship. All of this was supposed to happen this year. It didnt happen, as we know. The impact, the Economic Impact has been absolutely quite stunning in its scope. If you look at the amount of Economic Activity thats been knocked out because of the shutdown, 25 billion just up to now. Thats not until the end of the Year Associated with the cruising industry. 164,000 american jobs lost, an estimated close to 1,000 jobs a day are being lost while these cruise ships are stuck. In fact, there are no cruise ships at this port. They are out in the ocean. They just come in to pick up some supplies. But they go back out into the ocean. They dont want to pay the fees to just sit here at the dock. That just shows you the impact and the extent to which theyre going to try and save money. If you look through here, theres been this was built as i said and completed in the summer for 155 million. So its the Port Canaveral thats losing the money. They built it, they paid for it. They were going to lease it to Carnival Cruise lines. They hadnt received a penny so everybody hurts. The port here has let 40 of its fulltime staff go because of that. The ripple effects go out. I spoke to the port director who said look, it will come back. Cant say when but it will come back, maybe in the next three to four months. He says its not only the destinations that draw people in, it is the boats themselves. Take a listen. Initially, the destinations may be limited on where the ships can go. Might be the private islands and a few ports of call. But the ships are now the destination. For example, the mardi gras coming as the first ship at sea with a roller coaster on board. That becomes the destination itself. Thats very very positive for the industry. Ashley i made that mistake again. They are not boats, liz. They are ships. They are enormous and they are going nowhere right now. By best estimates, with cdc approval, we could see some cruise lines out there in the next two to three months. But its going to be a long and drawnout process. In the meantime, the economics of this is really dire, both for the port and for all the cruise lines. Back to you. Liz you know, we had showed the stocks and how much they are still down, and that could be a brilliant buying opportunity a year from now, people will look back and say could have, would have, should have. For now, it is very very difficult. There they are. Royal caribbean down 41 this year. Carnival down 60 . Same with ncl, norwegian. Ashley, thank you very much. He looks lonely in there. My goodness. Nobody there. Hell survive. Virgin galactic stock blasting off today after nasa signed billionaire Richard BransonsSpace Tourism company to multiple contracts worth 45 million for flight and Integration Services and the like. Space, the ticker symbol, up 6 right now. That on to its 145 gain this year alone. Meanwhile, bitcoin has been rocketing out of the stratosphere and up into the mesosphere. Just imagine where it could go if doubters really could trust it. Next, chainalysis that even the irs uses to sleep well at night knowing the crypto are secure. The ceo joins us next. 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Fidelity. Liz okay. It just keeps happening. Early in the session, bitcoin blasted even higher, through the record set three years ago, and hit 19,918 per coin. Right now, shrinking back just a little bit, little bit of retraction. Were down about 414 to 18,895. But it has been a real jump lately. Much of the momentum behind the digital currencys rise of 165 year to date comes from a turnaround in thinking by big name wall streeters. Blackrocks rick reader, scott minerd of guggenheim and Paul Tudor Jones have all said they are now interested in it. Part of the newfound confidence comes from the unique ability of this Company Called chainalysis currently valued at 1. 1 billion after a series c round of fundraising. Its one of the crypto worlds first unicorns. Chainalysis has figured out how to monitor, trail, follow and find bitcoin through its proprietary blockchain analysis. We thought lets get them in here. The ceo is here with us live. Great to have you, michael. Im thrilled about this. It comes on a day where we see yet another record. Am i right on guessing why we have seen i guess more stability and a quicker climb in bitcoin lately . Yeah, i agree. Its driven a lot by Institutional Investors so what you see on the blockchain is that the purchase prices, like the amount thats being purchased right now, we are told millions of dollars, where you could go three years back, there was a lot of Retail Investors that bought smaller amounts of crypto and thats definitely driving up the price. You only enter this as a retail as an Institutional Investor if you believe in regular tory stability, if you understand the Public Sector is behind you and thats something we have been working closely over the last many years. Liz youve gotten quite a few clients. Can you span the gamut, talk about what types of companies these are and the range and what you do for them, because you actually do surveillance. You contract through your digital ledger, so to speak, and some of your clients involve the department of justice along with names like square and parclayba the irs. What do you do for them . The important part of building out a new financial ecosystem is about Building Trust in the financial ecosystem. If you go back three, five years or so, you would remember crypto was, it was all about the bad things happening from crypto. This bad thing happened, that bad thing happened, but there were no data. I built data company to basically solve that problem. What we are doing with our data is enabling anyone from, for example, you mentioned the government agencies, they need to be able to trace financing, stolen bitcoin, [ inaudible ] got hacked and two weeks later we found the perpetrators and they were arrested and thats unsurpassed ability to actually follow the funds for financial crimes. Thats one news case. If you look at Companies Like square that see tremendous growth from this crypto run we are seeing right now, they are using our products for proprietary reasons. They want to make sure their funds are not from dark markets, they are not stolen from crypto funds, all the things that may be related to sanctions, and we are enabling them to do their compliance right. Liz your revenue, as i understand it, has jumped 96 over the past year. You got a lot of people that are interested in this, because they realize that perhaps this is a new way of payment. But you talk about some of the mental blocks people have about bitcoin. To get a bitcoin, you have to have, what is it, a 23 letter and number type of wallet that you create and this is what we hear, if you forget that password, its gone. You cant find your bitcoin anymore. Can you actually track those down if i were to just flake out and cant remember and i havent written it down anywhere . As soon as you cant remember it, if you had a 100 bill and threw it in the fireplace, i would know it was there and could find the ashes but i couldnt bring back your 100 bill. Your password is like your secret key for your bitcoin. If its gone, its gone. Thats how it is. Its quite a big fraction that actually have been lost so dont forget that password and dont forget your private key. Probably write it down somewhere. Liz do you think about going public . You just finished your series c round. People are interested as far as investors are concerned. Yeah. We just finished our series c round. Going public is definitely something that we have in our road map and we are thinking about. Its all about like growth and timing. We had really good growth this year. We are expecting that to continue the next following year. We definitely see this as the market and consistent growth. We are growing along with that and actually have been able to outgrow the pace of bitcoin itself. Liz michael, please, we want to following this story. When that day comes and you go public, we will be right there to cover it. Michael gronager. Thank you so much. Chainalysis. They even help the department of justice dig up about 1 billion in illicit bitcoin they were able to find. Okay. You are looking at the nasdaq right now. The market record, not the only thing the nasdaq is looking to smash. What the techheavy index is now demanding from its more than 3,000 Member Companies in the fight for change across the business world. Will it happen . Charlie breaks it with the closing bell ringing in 17 minutes. We are still seeing gains here. The russell is up 15. The dow is up 174. Dont go away. Did you know you can go to libertymutual. Com to customizes your Car Insurance so you only pay for what you need . Really . I didnt aah ok. Im on vibrate. Aaah only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Its time for aerotrainer, with your weight and health . 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Officials say 40 million doses of the vaccine could be available by the end of december. End of december, with five to ten million doses shipped per week once authorization is given to the producers from moderna to pfizer biontech. Cdc is also saying most state and local jurisdictions can vaccinate their Health Care Workers within three weeks and that it may require additional subgroups for prioritization in the first several weeks following any authorizations it decides to grant. Were looking at the vaccine makers, everybody but biontech moving higher at the moment. At some point i would love to see fed ex. I will pull it up. Fed ex and ups have been invited to help out as well as united airlines. Know that. Fed ex is up and ups is down just 1. 5 . Quick check of ual. Sorry, just want to get this for you because thats how we roll. Up. 75 for united. The nasdaq was the first Global Stock Exchange to appoint a woman as ceo and now its making headlines again for demanding that companies that list on its exchange prioritize diversity as well. To Charlie Gasparino on whether the s. E. C. Will grant them the ability to do this and what exactly theyre asking for. Charlie this proposal was released today. Its interesting, if you read the press release of the proposal which is a diversity rule saying that boards, companies that want to list on the nasdaq have to have diverse boards. There are some parameters in there of how diversity is based on sexual orientation, race. If you dont meet those parameters, you can be booted and be delisted. We should point out that when we spoke with the nasdaq by the way, if you read the press release, it seems very draconian. As we are speaking with the nasdaq privately or getting a background briefing, it appears that theyre saying its less draconian. Maybe they think this is how they are going to proceed with it by arguing this is more about goals rather than mandates but either way you look at it, the nasdaq did something extremely provocative by putting out that press release and that rule today which said its listed companies, most of which fail their own diversity rule, have to meet these diversity mandates or you could be delisted. We have been asking people what are the chances this is going to be approved, what are the chances that this will withstand constitutional scrutiny if it gets litigated. The first thing we heard is that the trump s. E. C. Will not take this up. Granted, theres only two months left or less than two months left in the trump s. E. C. , but jay clayton and company are probably not going to take this up. This will be something that the biden s. E. C. Will take up and would probably, if you listen to the rhetoric, approve. The problem that they have right now, we should point out that the nasdaq has told us their general counsel reviewed every single document, including the press release, on whether this thing is constitutional, by the u. S. Constitution which, by the way, is ruled against, Supreme Court has ruled against quotas. That doesnt mean you cant have broad goals, but quotas, as this thing suggests is generally unconstitutional. But we have heard from other constitutional experts that this could be a problem. I want to read you a quote from our very own judge andrew napolitano, who its great to have a constitutional expert who is a phone call away. Heres what he told lydia moynihan, my producer. Nasdaq cannot use government power to compel membership on a board of directors and they cannot use government power to compel speech. Because this rule involves the s. E. C. , which must approve it, as we know, because nasdaq is a regulated entity by the s. E. C. , thats where they could run into problems. We should point out that the nasdaq is kind of like a private club but it has some regulatory dimensions. It is regulated by the s. E. C. So its asking the s. E. C. Essentially and it had these sort of regulatory requirements because you have to meet Listing Requirements to be a u. S. Company listed there, and most investors dont buy stocks that arent listed at one of the two major exchanges so you get where this gets pretty this gets into the danger zone. Because they are asking the s. E. C. To approve it because thats their main regulator, this is where the government, they could have a problem on constitutional grounds because its essentially the government mandating the makeup of boards based on race or sex. That gets into problematic, if it gets litigated, and you know in this environment, litigation is like a daily occurrence. Back to you. Liz i would only say this. Thank you, charlie. 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Is software the new semiconductor . Meaning transition out of semis which have done so well into software . Lets bring in todays 350 billiondollar closer, john lynch. Youre transitioning right, youre moving from semis into software, why . Semis have done very well. Good afternoon, liz, glad to be on with you again. Semis have done very well because semis are the consistent with the market belief in cyclical recovery. Slack is the capex portion of it. They are trying to invention in enhancing technology. Semis led in cyclical recovery, investors are pricing that in, software would be the next leg, yes. Liz software. Any subsectors in Software World . I think beyond just in technology i think the industrials could be a big play also there for investors. I think that sort of transition from semis to software i think you will see transports to machinery and because i think what you will see ultimately a spending package wont necessarily be transfer payments but to the degree machinery are gaining traction right now i think that is very positive because that would be an infrastructure play. With janet yellen at treasury, keynesian philosophy behind that, multiplier, more than transfer payments see economic return from the machinery gain. Liz we might see that. We have about 30 seconds left, john. What do you see for 2021 . Keep it to the first half of 2021. Sure. We released our 2021 Market Outlook this morning and i think the First Quarter will be challenging. I think right now if you look at some numbers at record levels, i think were priced to perfection. Were not convinced about logistics, distribution of vaccine. Were hopeful, prayerful it will work out i believe with targeted restrictions globally you will see likely weaker First Quarter growth before we gain traction in the second quarter. [closing bell rings] liz gotcha. John lynch of comerica, a friend of the show. Get out the blue ribbons. A record for s p and nasdaq. Connell new highs for the stock market ahead of key vote coming up from centers of Disease Control and prevention. Well watch that closely, moments from now cdc advisors are expected to vote who should get the Covid Vaccine first a lot of interest in that. While we wait on it to happen the closing numbers from wall street look good. S p and nasdaq both in record territory. That is vaccine and recovery hopes. The dow off the highs of the day but still up 185 points. Inching closer to getting back above