If confirmed, she would be the first woman to hold the position. Promising stynes leader to have u. S. Coronavirus Vaccine Program says astrazenecas shot could halt severe covid. Welcome to the program. Futures in europe pointing higher. Futures in the u. S. Pointing higher and a number of uncertainties removed from the markets thinking over the last 24 hours or so. One of them is who is going to be treasury secretary. Somebody the that market knows ery well in the shape of janet yellen, somebody that has considerable monetary experience and fiscal experience. The other uncertainty is the transition at the white house. That seeps to be looking a little smoother given the headlines we have seen over recent hours. The asian picture benefiting from all of that removal of uncertainty i described. Something more complicated happening to the japanese market which had been doing well prior to being closed. It seems the Trump Administration in its last days still has some tough time to be toug
Week as traders rotated in and out of sectors. And amazon prime days kicked off an unusual Holiday Shopping season with retailers adapting to the challenges of the covid19 crisis. Which companies will benefit . Apple unveiled its new iphone 12. Will 5g drive a phone sales super cycle . My colleagues, ben levisohn, carlton english and jack howe. Ben, lets start with you. Mr. Market is sometimes described as manic depressive, but this week it was more sort of schizophrenia that we saw. Whats going on . Yeah. It was just a very indecisive market. There were days when investors flocked to tech, and other days the nasdaq went down, other parts of the market went up. It really just depended on the news of the day. Early in the week we had plenty of things that could have caused the market to sell off including drug trials at johnson johnson, eli lilly for Covid Treatment being halted, and we also saw, you know, cases of covid rising. But the market actually pulled through all that and even g
Alphabet seeing outsized gains and treasury yields are under pressure giving back some of their recent pop, thats weighing on the financials the Kbw Bank Index is down around 3 with 59 minutes left in the session, banks one of the few decliners, sara, broader markets ripping up. We have a great lineup of guests over the next two hours to help make sense of the election, the market and your money. In just a few moments Guggenheims Scott Minerd will join us with his take on the rally and later we will hear from long time pharma exec fred hassan about the impact of the election on health care, those stocks zooming higher, plus kyle bass with a take on what all this means with the u. S. Relationship with china and bob diamond will weigh in on the banks. Lets get straight to the market rally that is happening. Mike santoli tracking all the action. You see a move like this, its very sudden, very dramatic in response to a widely watched known catalyst and you have two things, one is whats the
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