Off your day, an historic launch for nasa and elon musks spacex after months of delay. It is monday, november 16th, and youre watching Worldwide Exchange right here on cnbc well, good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, and welcome from wherever in the world you may be watching. I am brian sullivan. Thank you very much for joining us and speaking of good mornings, a hearty congratulations to new masters champion Dustin Johnson for his recordbreaking performance at augusta, georgia, securing the green jacket, you know, just 20 under par. Wow. Much more on his big win in a moment but first, investors winning in the stock market lately as well and more may come today futures, they are up nicely again. Look at that higher across the board. Dow futures up 300, nearly 1 . Nasdaq futures up about half a percent or 63 points remember, the dow is now just 1. 5 off a record high the s p 500 coming off a record breaking session friday. The nasdaq just 2. 3 from its own record but its really
Tech and bond trades play out. Lets dig a little deeper into the virus story in the u. S. U. S. Infectious disease official Anthony Fauci says it wont be a pandemic a lot longer because of vaccine progress. Joining us now with more is bloomberg Senior Editor drew armstrong. We all want to have the monday where we were very happy about the Pfizer Biontech results. What if the state of play in the u. S. . Drew the state of play in the u. S. Is brutal. We are sitting case records because of uncontrolled spread in huge amounts of the u. S. Hospitalizations are higher than they have been at any point during the pandemic. During thet pandemic. Depend on who you ask, 1500 sorry, 1506 to two deaths in the u. S. Yesterday, a number we havent seen since the early days of the pandemic. Numberout every single or way you look at this that you can is going in the wrong direction right now, and newman the hospitalizations and knowing that hospitalizations after that, it is going to be a grizzly pictu
Around the globe, nearly 200 vaccine candidates are being developed and nearly 20 have entered human. Clinical trials in the United States. Entered human Clinical Trials with large Clinical Trials to begin late this month. With the historic, all hands on deck effort underway around the globe come of the timeline to develop a vaccine may be compressed from several years now to just 12 or 18 months. Moving with this amazing speed does not and must not allow for cutting any corners. Today, we will hear how we must place trust in the fdas [audio drop] to produce a vaccine. We in Congress Must do our part to protect their work from political meddling so that they can uphold their professions utmost standards of scientific analysis and ethics. We are not here today [audio drop] not politicians. I want to highlight two guardrails that protect the integrity of Vaccine Development and will ensure the safety and efficacy of a covid19 vaccine. First, the most important hurdle for a vaccine to be
Within minority communities toward the medical industry. Thank you to all of our witnesses and, of course, my colleagues for joining us. Todays reading is about the extraordinary effort underway to develop a vaccine to prevent covid19, safe and effective vaccine could hasten the end to this disastrous pandemic. But the herd immunity that would in covid19 once and for all requires all of us, all of us to get vaccinated. For that we need public trust in this entire vaccine project. Around the globe nearly 200 vaccine candidates are being developed and over 20 have entered human Clinical Trials. In the United States, five entered human Clinical Trials with large Clinical Trials that begins later this month. With a historic all hands on deck effort underway around the globe, the timeline to develop a vaccine may be compressed from several years down to just 12 or 18 months. However, moving with this amazing speedos not and must not allow for getting any corners. Today we will how we must p
The nasdaq up about four points. Yields firmed up a little. You can see the 10year, as equities came up, the 10year about 0. 624 all of this as Energy Prices got stronger the june contract up about 13 now trading at 15. 68. Hard to believe that is a strong level. 15 a barrel is pretty strong for oil when they were paying people to take it from them earlier this week. Time for the squawk planner is it . It is yours, joe. Getting to closely watched jobless numbers. More than 4. 3 million americans are expected to have filed for jobless claims that number rose on the earnings front, well hear from eli lily, blackstone, dominos. Well see if dominos has the same type of positive numbers like chipolte. Nobody eats at dominos intel is reporting after todays close. Now, andrew. Now. You were eager this better be good. You know, im just doing the update on the pandemic numbers as we do every morning it is not good it is not good global cases have risen to 2. 6 million. U. S. Cases 842,000 with