Under siege. But front line er doctors still manage to send a message of hope plus, weve got a live one shark tanks mr. Wonderful kevin oleary in the news tank, talking Small Business survival. Live from cnbc global headquarters, the facts, the truth, the news with Shepard Smith. Good evening. The United States just topped more than 13 million covid cases, according to johns hopkins. Los angeles has just issued a new stayathome order it starts on monday. A full report coming and all of this as the virus has disrupted another american tradition. Black friday, normally one of the busiest shopping days of the year not in covids 2020 in many parts of our nation, thinner lines at stores. Smaller crowds at malls. Many people opting to shop from home instead its a trend accelerated by covid. Shoppers projected to spend as much as 10. 6 billion today. Thats according to the data firm Adobe Analytics and thanksgiving day spending rose by more than 21 compared to the same day last year. Total sp
How to get through this. Its been an extraordinary outcome. One i could have never perceived could happen in march when we were scrambling for ppp loans, the majority of my companies were cash flow negative we shut down retail, until we went through this extraordinary transformation we would have never shut down our headquarters we would have never assumed that we could make a pivot and start selling direct to our customers instead of through retail. Thats exactly what happened and when you sell something direct to a customer, you make almost 100 cents on the dollar versus 0. 50 when you sell through retail thats the reason that theres a massive digital pivot going on, and theres major cost savings also occurring i could have never foreseen this, 15 of my staff including the areas of accounting, logistics and compliance never want to come back to the office. Wow. Theyre raising kids at home in the suburbs, taking care of elderly parents. Another major savings. This is happening to ever
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