Arizona for First Time Since 1996 and thats where we will begin this morning as the president continues his legal challenges today. President elect biden winning the state of arizona, thats according to nbc news decision desk overnight further cementing his victory in last weeks election biden now holds 290 electoral votes, to trumps 217. Georgia and North Carolina are the ones that are still too close to call, jim but if you put those two together, even flipping those for the president would not be enough yeah, look, carl, this matters tremendously there was a lot of uncertainty in the last four days that perhaps the president wouldnt leave the white house, the legal challenges would go on forever, december 13th would come, 14th is the last day, and there would be no concession about the electoral college. And this kind of makes it so that it is less likely, plus the attack on fox, believe it or not, made people realize maybe there is a second life, maybe a station that will be owned
Report help to boost sent men this morning with the u. S. Economy adding 638,000 jobs in october. The Unemployment Rate fell to 6. 9 the coronavirus surge remains in focus, the u. S. Setting a record with more than 121,000 cases on thursday according to Johns Hopkins data 59 minutes left of the session in what has been a crazy week. Today though essentially flat, sara. Holding onto the gains i would argue, which are very strong so far this week. Ahead on todays show we will ask jeff sonnenfield how americas Corporate Leaders are thinking about the heated election race. Big news out of cvs as larry merlo announces hi retirement. We will also speak with the ceo of hershey asking about how cappy sales fell during this years unusual halloween season. Lets get to the final hour of trade, the markets and the election mike santoli tracking all the action for stocks. Frank has the vote count in pennsylvania ylan moi is covering the balance of power in the senate how georgias undetermined races
Tech stocks underperforming today, pulling back more of mondays gains or giving up mondays gains, i should say, still on pace for a positive week 59 minutes left of the session, exactly down. 5 , sarah. Weve got a big lineup coming your way National Economic Council Director larry kudlow will join us to talk about the stimulus negotiations and any Economic Impact there. John shrewsberry of wells fargo will be with us and well talk to David Malpass and the race to fund Vaccine Development around the world. First off, though, lets get straight to the big stories were watching mike santoli is watching the market pullback. Rick santelli has the bond report but lets start with mike santoli. Big tech and momentum growth that have been running pretty hotly. This modest payback mode for the prior few weeks. Lows for today were right exactly where the s p closed on friday essentially made this roundtrip a couple of times, trying to bounce off of them yes, if you look at energy, look at pure val
Of that in about an hour. Apple is sometimes seen as a proxy on consumer spending, entertainment, computer, mass mutual fund reflecting how we all feel and our appetite to buy stuff. Some of this stuff were told could be very, very pricey. Depending how it all lays out, when tim cook makes the announcement, well have a good idea how much americans are willing to fork over if it gets you know, pricey. But again this is not really been a problem for apple in the past, as you have been hearing here. It is the most widelyheld stock on the entire planet. Just amazing. But, all eyes on amy barrett in washington right now, the judiciary committee, taking up her confirmation process to get on the Supreme Court as an associate justice but not without a lot of talking. Not so much on her part, on the questioners part. There are 22 senators, 12 republicans, 10 democrats who have been allocated 30 minutes to ask their questions. That works out to about 11 hours of questions and at the pace theyre
Heavily political negotiation we said we cannot tell what is going to happen. The market seems to believe there will be some kind of stimulus, the dow up this morning up 150 and nasdaq of 171. Plenty of green on expectation of a stimulus deal. As for the white house, doctor sean conley says the president has responded extremely well to treatment. And expects him to return to public engagement, mr. Trump is going to do just that, hes going to florida for a rally tomorrow. Speaker pelosi questioning the president s fitness for office, she intends to bring up the 25th amendment to the constitution which is about the presidencapacity to function. On the one hand they negotiating training in dollar stimulus plan and on the other the speaker questions mr. Trumps ability to run the country. To the debates, more confusion. Mr. Trump will not participate if its virtual, joe biden says he will be there anyway. But he has scheduled a town hall with abc on debate day, october 15 and a raging debat