The u. N. His bio is Available Online so let me be very brief in introducing him. Mark has more than 30 years of experience in both humanitarian and development context. Most of it spent with the u. K. s department for international development, which he eventually led as permanent secretary. He had led their humanitarian responses to such context as iraq, syria, nepal, several cases in africa, and haiti. He was also their directorgeneral for policy and corporate performance and finance. An extraordinary wealth of experience both in the context working where operations occur and on the infrastructure that helps to manage them. So were delighted to have sir mark with us today. Mark, there are innumerable humanitarian crises under way right now and at large scale. I know you Just Launched the u. N. s consolidated humanitarian appeal for the funding to support that effort. But today we want to focus on covid. And what the pandemic has meant for the crises that you helped to manage and for
Come whichrevious also been revised higher. There was some expedition that as prices come up because of the fact you can get cheap lending at the moment or cheap borrowing , you would expect that at some have, that would start to an impact on a month by month basis. Nevertheless, the market was looking for this month on month number two actually slow, and that hasnt happened, which is really interesting and the light of what we are starting to see in the employment market. We saw initial jobless claims out a little bit earlier on. Youre starting to see the negative data could begin from the employment side of the economy, starting to come in a little softer. Bloombergs mike mckee joining us now with the details of that. Michael at one point on the housing numbers, existing home sales or closings, so these contracts were signed a couple of months ago when things were a little better in the economy, and we got low mortgage rates, so the one thing the fed has been able to do is stimulate
Well have a live report on that. President obama says Americans Care more about cheap gas than they do from the environment. Well hear from steve moore, whether this was a cheap shot. All that and a lot more on making money. Stay tuned. David its a huge market day. Nasdaq hitting alltime highs once again today after surging more than 10 last month. Vaccine hopes stronger than expected Economic Data and rumblings on capitol hill of a bipartisan covid relief bill are boosting market optimism. Joining me two markets experts to break it all down for us. Bellpointe chief strategist, david nelson. Great to see david again. And nicole webb. Let me start with the big picture. We didnt mention the fed announced, frankly nothing moves market more than free money. They said essentially there will be a lot more free money as long as they dont see any signs of inflation, the money printing will go on ad infinitum to pay all the bills but we still have a fear in the market of a more antibusiness, at
To abide by draconian lockdown orders, will have the latest on reaction to all of this and from capitol hill im joined by republican congressman andy biggs of arizona talking about a 35 million covid relief bailout going to want to joe bidens Campaign Advisory firms, what the heck is going on with that. This is the backbone of america being challenged by new lockdown, 60 of americas Small Businesses closing for good or being pressured to follow debilitating restrictions, will hear from the chief attorney from the owners of the Staten Island bar arrested for staying open, our covid shutdowns being used as political weapons, all that and a lot more right here on making money. David stocks are on pace for record close to in the week in a bigness in the november jobs report, the u. S. Added 245,000 jobs last month, that was only half as much as expected, you can see on the right the unemployment did kick down two tenths to 6. 7 but much of that because folks leaving the job force entirely.
We have that manying up. The number of americans seeking unemployment aid popped last week. Add to that expiration of emergency programs, increased lockdowns. One has to wonder will Congress Step up . Or will this be a Blue Christmas for Many Americans . I will ask tennessee congressman mark green. President trump fights for reelection and targeting vote if iification in a number of states. Well get that from the trump campaigns erin perrine any. All that and more on making money. Charles the market seesawing back and forth in a narrow range. This is normal consolidation after of a recent weeks. Lockdowns impacted market only when it hit wall streets backyard did we see noticeable selling. The market understands it will take some time to reach socalled herd immunity which near term the economy could get rocky. The market understands there will be huge Central Bank Accommodation and maybe fiscal health. There are huge winners every day in the stock market. That is what investors are lea