Bloomberg technology. Lets take a look at the markets on the day. It was a risk on session, of course avenue do with the news out of madera that they have a vaccine that is 94. 5 effective on the volunteers. 500hat news, the s p finishing higher. Some nice gains out of the nasdaq. Moderna itself sharply higher. After the market, we did have news coming from brookshire and s. Her hathawaye berkshire added to their portfolio in terms of health care. Typically, health care a defensive space. With the virus, perhaps these additions have something to do with the virus. Stocks have been down sharply on the day after moderna news about the virus came out. Likingours, investors pfizer as well. All right, abigail doolittle, thank you so much for that round up. I want to get to airbnbs filing. The company disclosing details of its initial Public Offering plans for the first time, releasing Financial Results and previously confidential information on its operations. In ipo search that has largely
Use authorization its covid19 vaccine. You can see pfizer punching up about 1. 7 at the moment. Remember that were looking at a comeback perhaps late in the day, in the next 59 minutes, because that is the dow had fallen 430 points, now we are down just 116. Any gain for the s p, the russell or the transports means another record. Were not there yet right now. The nasdaq up 9 points. Fed chair Jerome Powell also giving markets a boost by calling on congress to get moving, already, on a new stimulus package. Former chair of the council of economic advisers under george w. Bush and now Columbia Business School emeritus dean, Glenn Hubbard is here on whether we need it, how big it should be and how worried he is about the precarious recovery. The ceos of facebook and twitter forced to run the Senate Judiciary committee gauntlet on capitol hill once again. One senator equating the social media sensations as quote, modern day robber barons. The ceo of whats being called the antifacebook is
Welcome to the to todays hearing. Pursuant house rules, some members will appear inperson and others will appear remotely via webex. Some members are appearing in person, let me first remind everyone that pursuant to the latest guidance from the house attending physician, all individuals attending this hearing in person must wear a face mask unless they are speaking. Members who are not wearing a facemask will not be recognized. Let me also make a few reminders to those members appearing in person. You will only see members and witnesses appearing remotely on monitor in front of you when you are speaking in what is known in web ex as active speaker view. A timer is visible in the room directly in front of you. For members appearing remotely, i know you are all familiar with web ex by now but let me remind everyone of a few points. First, you will be able to see each person speaking during the hearing. Whether theyre there in person or remote. As long as you have your web ex set to acti
Does october start most interesting. As you well know, the president of the United States at walter reed hospital. He has been tweeting actively this morning, almost as much as jon ferro. In the markets, i would say weve got a bit of a celebration. Futures up 21, dow futures up 184. What do you make of the markets this morning . Jonathan a strong correlation between the president s health, his tweeting activity, and equity markets. We hope we avoided the local crisis, the chaos that many people were thinking about last friday. Up 0. 6 on the s p. In the bond market, this is where things get interesting for treasuries headed into election day. If the polling remains the way the polling looks right now, at a national level, the 14 point lead joe biden at the moment, at some point you do start to think about prices in the fiscal stuff. The key risk at the moment, i am catching up with Henry Peabody a little later tom on one of your other properties. Jonathan his view is that the risk the
All of the effort back and forth over the weekend. I would really focus on the immediacy of the calendar forward. Weve got the Vice President ial debate on wednesday. 10 days out to a president ial debate, i believe still scheduled. Jonathan so far. Tom and in 29 days, the election. I think those are the numbers that get everyones attention this morning. The National Polling not looking good for the president of the United States. On twitter right now, that is the campaign for the president right now, knowing what these polls look like at the moment. Tom around 10 00 make it around 10, weve got a new tweet. 91 approval rating. Vote these are short bursts of tweets , i guess showing the action that he wants to come out of walter reed this morning. Jonathan and hit became pin trail, virtually speaking hit the campaign trail, virtually speaking. Lisa to me, really interesting to see the momentum, how much it is slowing. We saw signs of than the jobs report. U. S. We will get a read on sep