From bear market to a new record at the fastest pace since 1991. 193 trading days from low to a record. But the vaccine by both moderna and pfizer are about to create a mountain of medical waste. This is all great news for one company out there, steracycle which disposes of it for hospitals and medical facilities all across the world. The ceo is in full preparation mode. Shes going to explain what theyre doing to get ready for that in a fox business exclusive. And as casino stocks rally on the vaccine news, are they kicking off the party a bit too early . The ceo of circus sports just opened the biggest sportsbook in the nation. How hes actually calm about this. Hes betting his early open will earn him a lot of green. First, weve got team fox business coverage ready to roll. Blake burman live at the white house with the plan now in place to distribute the moderna vaccine. Hillary vaughn is in wilmington, delaware with what president elect joe biden is about to say in a speech about the
Close at the open. The road map begins with that renewed vaccine optimism and detailing their own strong data. Plus as for the market, the u. S. Stocks poised for new records and the futures are and investor optimism about that vaccine and dow is within striking distance of 30,000. We have a lot of deals this morning. Pnc looking to become one of americas largest banks and set to buy spanish bank and 11. 6 billion the Purchase Price and other deals to tell you about this morning carl lets start with the moderna news excellent news for the second week in a row. Dr. Fauci on some of the networks earlier today saying the data are striking and the results are just as good as it gets i really think we have to go back just a couple months and recognize that even if we had any hope that there would be a successful vaccine maybe 70 , 80 . 50 to 60 for the flu is something we learned moderna Insider Selling was bad and turns out the Insider Selling was bad meaning they sold badly i do think wha
Soaring today. Meg tirrell with details. The bar was very high for moderna after pfizers efficacy last week. Mad earn moderna met the 94 percent efficacy and will seek the fda emergency authorization in the coming weeks. We just talked to the doctor who has been leading the vaccine and Drug Development as part of operation warp speed about the significance of this moment, really seeing two vaccines in a row at this high level of efficacy heres what he said. Its an extraordinary outcome, frankly, to have two different vaccines tested in different conditions by two Different Companies developed independently yield very similar outcomes this gives a huge confidence into the data obtained and really suggests that the 90 percent and more efficacy is true and real. But of course, melissa, as were getting this extremely good news it comes at a time in the pandemic when weve never been seeing more daily cases, were seeing 140,000 a day on average right now. And were seeing more and more people
The year dow is set for a record close, approaching 30,000 with 59 minutes left of trade. Up 1 2 on the dow sara 29,830 currently. Coming up todays show, we are waiting president elect biden to make some comments on the economy. His economic plan that should come any minute. We will take you there live. In the meantime, a rare interview with operation warp speeds dr. Slaoui he will weigh in on the moderna news and what the rollout will look like. Plus the positive vaccine theus with mark moabious his eye on emerging markets. And mike wilson saying next year will be all about earnings we will discuss with Morgan Stanleys chief u. S. Equity specialist mike santoli joins us. Meg tirrell has the latest on covid19 news. Eamon javers will go over president elect biden speech on the economy when we get there. Lets start with mike santoli. We below on the s p 500 where we were this morning, by about a third of a percent below last monday mornings high about a third of a percent but looking at
Talks have been delayed until thursday. Diplomatic and trade tensions between australia and china formed the backdrop as the rba prepares its latest statements. Economists see no change. Shery we will start with breaking news out of south korea. We are getting the final Third Quarter gdp numbers. When it comes to the year on year numbers, a contraction of 1. 1 . This is coming in a little better than expected. The quarter on quarter numbers also rising more than expected, 2. 1 , and beating estimates of growth of only 1. 9 . We have seen some pretty positive ratings especially when it comes to the south korean export numbers. They have seen a lot of external demand, especially in china and the u. S. , despite the fact we continue to see virus infections accelerate in those economies. Again, thirdquarter gdp numbers for the final numbers now beating expectations and coming in at growth of 2. 1 quarter on quarter, haidi. Haidi lets take a look at where we are sitting when it comes to thi