Way. What sent the cryptocurrency sit to its highest level in nearly three years. We start tonight with the story thats front and center for investors, and all of americas right now. Thats the vote counting under way in five key battleground states plus alaska eamon javers has more on where things stand at this hour. We havent really moved all day today, as all the vote counters around the country are doing their jobs biden 253, trump 214 in the race to 270 joe biden has more paths to 270 now than donald trump does, but its not over for either man lets start with arizona you can see where we stand in that state theyve been giving us new data throughout the day that is 11 electoral votes available there. Nevada was giving us data throughout the day still too close to call with 89 of the vote in in nevada georgia, another state where were seeing an interesting move by the biden camp, making a run at a historically very, very red state. 49. 5 for trump, 49. 3 for biden a difference there,
Ceo of Electronic Arts, Andrew Wilson as we talk to him about the world of gaming and a lot more john, retrospective of apples event. Were bringing the east and west coast together. Apple unveiling its longawaited 5g iphone 12, but we have been questioning whether the 5g networks, especially here in the u. S. , are ready to drive demand. Josh covers apple for us i didnt see tim cook hedge at all in his 5g pitch yesterday. He was full steam ahead. Thats right, john. Not one bit. Experts are right, they have questioned whether 5g is really ready, but tim cook doubling down on that bet with his new iphone 12. The generation of technology that provides a step change in what we can do with our iphones, the next generation is here. Today is the beginning of a new era for iphone 5g promises faster everything, from movies to games, to all kinds of downloads, and that sounds exciting, but its still just a promise of what could be the reality right now is that 5g coverage here in the u. S. Is st
The coronavirus outbreak. This is a group of experts are outbreak could go on for another two years and wont be contained until 2 3 of population is immune. Joining us to break down the day wall as at least on street, taylor riggs has been digs into the markets for us. Tailor, a rough day, there were so many signs of hope this week . Felt like a mood shift this morning, emily, we woke up, a sentiment had been negative. As you remember, 30 after we bottomed out on the lows on 23. H there could have been some rofit taking here as well as some concerns continuing about the economy. We got news in the past few days overnights that trump was considering floating around some ideas of how to punish china for for the handle of the virus, for shutting down a lot of the doctors back in december who were really trying to warn this. Some of those renewed tensions some of the ng debt, thats very far stretched according to some of the to, ysts that im speaking but another option to be tariffs. Now t
Orders the numbers are not pretty the dow on track for its worst First Quarter ever falling more than 20 Retail Stocks are front and center as the coronavirus handcuffs the once strong u. S. Consumer how long will the pain last . Well dig in on that this hour bob, we begin with you and the markets today. Good riddance to this First Quarter of second worst quarter s p history. This is why everybody is hopeful about rebalancing a little bit here corporate bonds, flat and high yield down 12 be. Reminding us in a recession these kinds of bonds, high yield tend to act like stocks. A little bit reminder about that we have good news and bad news the good news is the president is out today pushing an infrastructure stimulus. That would be a number of programs out there we have progress on the vaccines and testing. The fed and congress have gotten very aggressive in the last few weeks. All good news. Theres still bad news we havent begun to see the really bad Economic News the market is very do
Its going to be a very big week for politics and money. Today, another impeachment hearing is being gavelled to order right now. Theres talk of an Impeachment Vote by the end of the week. Also today, the Inspector Generals report on what the fbi and doj were up to around the 2016 election. Wednesday, the Federal Reserve holds forth on Interest Rates. After that jobs report, very few expect rate cuts. Thursday, britains general election. Boris johnson, thats britains donald trump, expected to beat socialist jeremy corbyn. And by sunday, we should find out if more tariffs are going to be imposed on china. Any of those stories could move the market. Then theres peloton. The young woman in the now famous ad has found new life advertising gin. Personally, i think that exercise bike will be one of the holidays biggest sellers. We shall see. Get this. Monday, december 9th. Three weeks to the end of the decade . Varney company is about to begin. Stuart the young lady in that now famous peloton