Important conversation to be had this afternoon, and i am thrilled to have the privilege to spend some time with our following guests. I want to be very clear, my goal was to discuss some concrete steps that this audience that is with us, the tens of thousands who are with us, and corporate america, what we can take to create some lasting change and benefit for minorities in this country and close the inequality gap in the boardroom and in peoples paychecks. Ursula burns is here. I should tell you she was the first and only female ceo of a fortune a black female ceo of a fortune 500 company when she ran xerox. Board,she is on ubers and ive had the honor and pleasure to have known her for quite some time. Weve had some very important discussions. Also with us, robert smith, founder and chairman of vista equity partners. He is the wealthiest black american in the country, and i should tell you you have him and theched student debt crisis at morehouse. He has the 2 solution, and we are go
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News of the father of the Pfizer Vaccine shou. Our conversation with jeremy stopple min later this hour. Tiktoks Parent Company is asking a u. S. Court to intervene in President Trumps attempt to thwart the sale. We will have the latest from beijing. First, a comeback for big tech in the stock market. For more on the trade, we are joined by Sarah Ponczek in new york. Walk us through the day and how tech drove market action. Sarah we did have a tech turnaround today. After two days when the nasdaq fell. You see the nasdaq 100 back on top. You look at your other major benchmarks not staging as much of a rally. So what changed . Not too much. You could say its just a comeback. At the same time, there were headlines being here in new york city, headlines about further restrictions in the city. It begs the question about whether or not people will be working from home, stuck at home with restrictions longer than previously thought, especially with the positive news on the vaccine. With that
The postelection risk rally faltering. Of good morning, everybody. 7 00 in london. Eight in paris or berlin. Lets have a look at the equity markets. Look like europe this. Negative. This is indicative of what we have seen on u. S. Futures or are seeing. U. S. Futures down 0. 5 . Nasdaq futures off their lows but still pretty negative. We are losing our nerve on Global Equity markets. Three days into this neverending election account it seems, the context of course is important. The rally we have seen must have been forgotten when we look at nasdaq futures, up nine, down one. Lets have a look at the gmm. Going on other things here. Oil prices are interesting, down by just over 2 . Dollar, not all about what is going on the dollar. Inflation trade unwinding. Investors wait, the electorate in the United States waits for the counting to continue. The race for the white house is still too close to call. Counting continues in crucial swing states with joe biden catching up in georgia and pen
That is the shoes, right . The shoe extension . Francine i dont know if you can hear it, but it is a neighbors. It wont last very long. Hammeringtle bit of there. We welcome all of you here, to the realities of the pandemic. The pandemic is front and center, but there is a lot of other news. I would note pacific rim currencies continue strong. Francine they certainly do, and there is quite a lot going on also in pound talks, so lets not forget brexit and the u. K. E. U. Relationship. Les get to first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika the Trump Campaign is abandoning demands that almost 700,000 is withdrawing a key part of its lawsuit against the Election Results in pennsylvania. It is abandoning demands that almost 700,000 mailin ballots be thrown out because observers were kept too far away from the count. The challenge is now against a far smaller number of ballots, almost certainly just a fraction of bidens lead in the state. Joe biden is Meeting National security experts, but his