The u. S. Economy which remains the wild west affected country. Bangladesh transfers hundreds of richenda refugees to an isolated island despite concerns from the un and Rights Groups and hollywood abounds to streaming one of the biggest studios says its going to start releasing films online at the same time as an sentiments. On german ash for the spores as the cost of delaying the taker lympics is revealed organizers say the current a virus despite minutes likely to set them back a father 2800000000. 00. Now the Foreign Ministers of cattle kuwait and saudi arabia all say that has been progress made in resolving the gulf crisis its now been 3 years since saudi arabia bahrain the u. A. E. And egypt and posed a land sea and air blockade on qatar but the Foreign Ministers say all parties want to reach a final agreement after holding constructive talks or somehow bar reports. Crucial days are had for gulf nations talks aimed at and in the 3 and a half year blockade of qatar seem to have ac
Jimmy li will join me this hour in this exclusive interview. Markets on the upswing to begin futures. Take a look at dow industrials 344 points. Nasdaq up 109. Thats almost 1 . S p higher by 9 points. The dow posting best month since 1987 with gain of almost 12 , other averages also higher by 12 and 11 all this as we await key testimony from federal jay powell and jimmy mnuchin today and unused covid relief funding. Return to high seas, we are taking you on a port on how they are getting ready. Another missing monolith moved. Making a buzz this morning. Mornings with maria live right now. Maria all right, european markets meanwhile look like this as rally is underway on wall street. European markets higher across the board. Ftse up 123 points. Almost 2 , cac quarante up 62 and dax index up 135. British factories reporting fastest growth in 3 years. Purchasing Managers Index rising to 55. 6 in the month of november. In asia overnight green across the board. Chinas manufacturing pmi54. 9
Do you dunk the entire covid cohort or stick with it on a dow when the rose 183 and the nasdaq gained 1. 8 the reaction to zoom Video Communications after it reported a good quarter that wasnt quite good enough for wall street. This company practically sin none mouse with the new normal and look ban on 2020 as the year of zoom so when you see it down 15 its alarming. You got to wonder what that means for the rest of the stayathome stocks. The answer, nothing. Just because zooms insanely high growth is decelerating that doesnt mean the trend is over in fact, id argue it never had gone away because this year has shown us millions of jobs can be done better from home. No need for that central office. Why go to meetings to negotiate or sign documents when you do everything over the web and save millions, maybe ten, maybe hundreds of millions in travel, hotel, dinners, zoom, i mean thats how the 39 billion s p global ihs market deal was consummated as we heard from Doug Pederson on mad mone
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John malone with the legendary media icon has to say about the covid19 virus, direct to consum consumer, streaming, so many other topics we hit in our hour long shutdown. The ceo of goodrx, we had him last week, since then, amazon came into the business what does it mean for his business carl, well ask that question amongst others. Yeah, thats good stuff for this hour, guys. Jim, we talked for last week and a half about the fact that a path to the vaccine would face some setbacks and clearly new york city schools, new state of emergency in wisconsin, speak to that i think that one of the things that we needed was a bridge, which would be stimulus, to the vaccine we dont have the stimulus were getting terrible numbers, we have half the country that thinks the numbers are okay, given the fact that the death rate hasnt skyrocketed. We have the other half, were saying, look, if we dont do something about it, then the Healthcare System is going to be overwhelmed. In that scenario, it is ver