Soaring today. Meg tirrell with details. The bar was very high for moderna after pfizers efficacy last week. Mad earn moderna met the 94 percent efficacy and will seek the fda emergency authorization in the coming weeks. We just talked to the doctor who has been leading the vaccine and Drug Development as part of operation warp speed about the significance of this moment, really seeing two vaccines in a row at this high level of efficacy heres what he said. Its an extraordinary outcome, frankly, to have two different vaccines tested in different conditions by two Different Companies developed independently yield very similar outcomes this gives a huge confidence into the data obtained and really suggests that the 90 percent and more efficacy is true and real. But of course, melissa, as were getting this extremely good news it comes at a time in the pandemic when weve never been seeing more daily cases, were seeing 140,000 a day on average right now. And were seeing more and more people
The year dow is set for a record close, approaching 30,000 with 59 minutes left of trade. Up 1 2 on the dow sara 29,830 currently. Coming up todays show, we are waiting president elect biden to make some comments on the economy. His economic plan that should come any minute. We will take you there live. In the meantime, a rare interview with operation warp speeds dr. Slaoui he will weigh in on the moderna news and what the rollout will look like. Plus the positive vaccine theus with mark moabious his eye on emerging markets. And mike wilson saying next year will be all about earnings we will discuss with Morgan Stanleys chief u. S. Equity specialist mike santoli joins us. Meg tirrell has the latest on covid19 news. Eamon javers will go over president elect biden speech on the economy when we get there. Lets start with mike santoli. We below on the s p 500 where we were this morning, by about a third of a percent below last monday mornings high about a third of a percent but looking at
Of the covid tunnel. Two down, two to come, Johnson Johnson and astrazeneca. Thats the main reason for the big monday morning rally with the dow jones up about 450 points. Tao, 30000. If we gain 500 points the dow jones is at 30k, again in a one half percent. Smaller game for the s p and nasdaq slightly lower. That is the market. Love the rally. Hate this of violence. Trump supporters attacked in washington dc last night with tens of thousands rallying peacefully, but after nightfall violence. A limited Police Presence and virtually no mention about this in the Mainstream Media and so far no statement from the biden harris camp. Bernie sanders now says he has not met anyone who wants to defund the police. Has he talked to aoc . Editorial, the company ministration deserves credit for the Rapid Development of the vaccines. Republican states like florida deserve credit for opening their economies to get the country moving forward and democrat governors in new york and california and elsew
Comfortably. Hawkish headlines on china and weak Economic Data both weighing on market sentiment. The dow is down 300 points yearly it was down 350 about 20 minutes ago. We have 59 minutes left in the session. Big show coming up four. A true 2020 winner, et ceteray stock is up 250 this year we will talk to the ceo Josh Silverman about the holiday crunch and whether his companys momentum can continue. And arthur blank, cofounder of home tee poe, owns the Atlanta Falcons and atlanta mls team as well lets focus first on the stories we are watching today. Mike santoli is tracking the Market Action into the close meg tirrell has a vaccine update and phil lebeau has an update on nikola, that stock down020 today. Mike santoli first to you and the markets. A mild shake of the tree. Indexes backing off. Some of the stuff that was up the most this month is down the most today seems like a little bit of trimming there are probably unbalanced portfolios there you have we are roughly capped we were
But i think when youre better for the world youre better for israel to halt to this office us hard bargain is very different from trump trying to bully dos and wanted us to appease him as well as many. Countries with a historically difficult relationship with the u. S. But in selection of burkes little hard. For the future development of the china u. S. Relationship trump didnt do a good job i dont hold much hope for biden turn. But im. I do but im a drummer we talked about improving relations with russia but it didnt come to anything. When you deal with biden is openly against russia. Or for a here. All eyes are now on biden and what changes he may bring to foreign diplomacy for the us. And lets get more now we are joined by did i use your ear shadow who is standing by with the view from moscow yury the kremlin has been remarkably quiet to silence speak volumes. Hi sara well we have no official reaction from the kremlin so far youre right russian president putin only commented once on