The strongest week since back to april. However, you have to put that in context. Two weeks ago was a lousy week in fact, two weeks ago the dow lost just over 1800 points, down by 1833 points last week the dow was up by 1821 points so that was a giveback for the dow kind of starting things over if you look at the other major averages, they got back much more ground than they had lost the previous week. Last week the s p was up 329 points after being down 195 the week before and the nasdaq was up by 983 points last week after losing 636 points the week before but again these gains this morning are significant ones they are adding to what we saw last week. Also, take a look at whats happening in the treasury market youll see that right now the treasury, the tenyear, is yielding 0. 812 so its stabilized after bouncing around quite a bit during the election and the election counting last week stabilized at 0. 812 andrew thanks, becky our top story this morning, president elect biden wastin
Reported yesterday and a top Infectious Disease expert says its about to get worse. Power lunch starts right now and welcome to power lunch everybody, the election shifting towards joe biden today. He took the lead in the counts in georgia and pennsylvania. Lets go to eamon javers to break down where we stand right now. Were stel loill looking at e same list of uncalled races. Joe bidens lead is increasing weve had more vote now coming in today from pennsylvania, moe are vote out from nevada in pennsylvania bidens lead over trump has grown to more than 13,000 votes. Take a look at the state of pennsylvania we are about 96 complete. Too close to call there. The difference there 13,220. Thats the whole ball game if joe biden wins there, this race is over because thats 20 electoral votes. Biden only needs 17 at this point to go over the top in nevada, press conference just wrapped up in clark county, home to Las Vegas Biden expanded his lead there and is up to 20,000 overall in the state.
Wall street is looking for any clarity on stimulus following President Trumps tweets, suspending further negotiations until after the election yesterday but calling for targeted relief since then for airlines, Small Business and a new round of 1200 checks. Eli lily saying its seeking emergency use authorization for antibody treatment dr. Gottlieb says its a major step forward got a bit of reversal from yesterday. Quite so. On todays show, restauranteur danny meyer putting out a plea for lawmakers to come up with a stimulus plan. He will discuss what it would mean for the Hospitality Industry if help doesnt come through soon plus kara swisher on whether any of that will mean real change Steve Liesman has the fed update for us, and joining us to break it all down is jeff sherman from double line capital. Steve, lets start with you. Wilf, thanks. Fed officials in their meeting from september had begun to have concerns about the possibility additional stimulus would fail in congress. They
A little hard. It looked to me like it was twitter. Like watching twitter for 90 minutes. I did not stick to my original plan. Baseball and bed the two bs i stayed up. I want my time back. I didnt stay up for that long you can play this game with me i felt dissed. How much words can you come up with disappointing, disturbing, disspiriting, distracting, disheartening. Disgusting. You can probably go there disspiriting i looked it up thats exactly what i wanted to say. After all those disses, i wound up with disinteresting thats when i was gone right . It was a let down ly say that. Some people like to watch the fighting it is hard to turn around from it if you were somebody who was tuning in. In my core pin of both candidates, nothing really changed. Mike Wallace Chris wallace had a tough job. I guess he did okay. Im not going to nominate him why do you bother having rules for a debate if nobody is going to bother to follow them kill the rules or give the moderator a kill switch. Both s
Because he is older than i. And he says it is true. My grandfather had 500 invested in the stock market. And of course he lost it. This is when people were jumping out the window and so forth. And my grandparents were teachers. I think he taught languages and music. I dont know what my grandmother taught. But they moved from virginia to philadelphia. And that started the family, split the family, because my grandparents could get a job. They said they didnt hire black teachers in philly. They had black children going to integrated schools, but no black teachers. So, my grandmother took in washing an washing, and my grandfather refused to do that type work. And the family actually split. They were together physically but not together. The older kids went to college in the family, and they were teachers. The two oldest ones. The youngest kid was sent to school by the middle children who are did not go to children. They had to work to help pay. So, here we go about the color line thing. I