The owner of a small restaurant in canada resorted to stay away from his own eatery after being arrested for keeping it open during long down. His supporters scuffled with police during his detention here in the russian capital. Thanks for joining us on r. T. International. The iranian president has accused israel of killing the countrys top scientist, son rouhani added that the assassination of the man dubbed the mastermind of Irans Nuclear program. Wont slow down the countrys achievements, tehran also branded the attack an act of state terrorism. Local reporter gave us more details. Senior iranian scientist was killed on a highway near tehran. Theres not much detail about number of people involved in the attack, or number of People Killed in the incident, and skirmish to tack to place some 75 kilometers outside tehran in north east of tehran, near the resort city of stat. You know, apparently he did. Traffic was quite less than usual in comparison to the other days. And the terrorist
Stores with reduced capacity could mean a 40minute wait. The National Retail federation on its website predicts online sales will be capturing 20 to 30 of the holiday market, up from last year. There are no corporate parties and reduced inventory and fewer employees are in many stores according to consumer expert and San Francisco State University marketing professor. The projections are that because the consumer demand has been suppressed so far, starting with today, which is black friday and the start of the Holiday Shopping season, there is some kind of penalty up demand that people, you know, they want to give gifts to family and friends to uplift their spirits in a very challenging year. Reporter walnut creek downtown there is a 20 vacancy rate right now but Property Owners say they are getting inquiries about renting the vacant sites according to the walnut creek Downtown Business association. Whats missing is probably, you know, the ice rink. Were unable to host the ice rink thi
Stimulus deal9 and the promise of a covid vaccine. Cloud computing giant salesforce has agreed e to buy slack in a 27 billion deal. Slacks instant messaging system will position salesforce to compete with microsoft. Warner brothers announced it will release its 2021 films on hbo max at the same time they debut in theaters. On the round table, ben levisohn, carlton english and jack howe. Ben, we got pretty weak jobs numbers today, but the market shrugged it off, and everything ended up higher. Thats right, jack, everything went higher. It doesnt matter if you were maul cap or large cap, the techheavy nasdaq or the Dow Jones Industrial average, the market just went higher. That comes down to stimulus. Congress is talking again, democrats and republicans are trying to come to a deal, this is a number out there, and it looks like it could get done. If it does, it makes up for the data. Payroll number missed expectations, but people were expecting a weak number, and the weakness is really i
Now, i cant get over it. Welcome, everybody. Hope you had a wonderful thanksgiving. Im neil cavuto. This is coast to coast. Were concentrating on the last day of trading for the month of november. Ion with the shellacking the Dow Jones Industrials is getting right now it is still looking at one of the better months weve seen in quite a few years. As a matter of fact, at the rate were going unless we really tumble out much bed here the strongest month since january 1987. Ignore what happened hater in that particular year. But for now were putting a capper on what is incredible comeback month included a surprising, legally infighting president ial election, pandemic spiking cases all over the the world. Yet with a comeback to put agrees on grease on the skids. Were getting growing indications this will be impressive run. Usually when you have a strong november you have a strong december. You put a capper on the year as a whole. A lot notwithstanding on optimism were competing for vaccine
As well as millions of americans facing unemployment and a lack of another stimulus package to put cash in the pockets. Has many wondering what we can expect from this Holiday Shopping season. So lets get some expert analysis from dr. Banky shankar, director of research at the center for retailing studies at Mays Business School at texas a and m. And dr. Barbara stuart, the coordinator of retailing and Consumer Sciences at the university of houston. Thank you both for being here today. Dr. Stuart, i want to start with you. Were seeing a change in black friday due to the pandemic and stores want to avoid crowds. What are some new trends that were already seeing for the black friday this year . Well, here are 3 aspects that will make this a black friday like, you know, rather firstly, Online Shopping has exploded. Secondly, shopping, and thirdly, retail is innovating and so on the on line explosion, as the panamic began. My degree said consumers change the way they shot 40 percent of peo