Chairman of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell is right now explaining why his committee has left near zero rates untouched. Our fed panel is monitoring every single word of what he sees and says as far as stresses on the economic system. Speaking of stress, tensions are still running high from arizona to pennsylvania. This video just in as crowds form in two states, where the administration is launching vigorous challenges. All right, heres the current electoral picture vote. Weve got four states, the key to the presidency. Nevada, pennsylvania, georgia and north carolina. They are still up for grabs on the path to 270. Biden leading 264 to President Trumps 214. Weve got new numbers in nevada showing that joe bidens lead has expanded to 12,000 as team trump seeks legal action there. But keep your eye on the dow and on the markets here because weve got team fox business standing by with up to the minute developments inside both the trump and Biden Campaigns. Blake burman live at the whi
Its on fire again. 3. 8 gain yesterday can something similar, up to and half percent again today. Why the big rally . Leader mcconnell says there will be a stimulus package probably this year and that helps. Divided government means no big tax hikes or green new deal, that helps. The fed will most certainly keep printing, so check your 4o1k and a smile. Lets deal with the election, the president ial winner still in doubt. It will come down to four battleground states, pennsylvania, North Carolina, georgia, nevada. Its close in all four states in the trunk team will go to court to make sure only valid votes votes are counted and we expect an update on the count in nevada. That state may be called today. Watch las vegas, 11 30 a. M. , but from campaign may be filing a legal challenge there also. This is the place to be if you follow money on politics. Varney co. Is about to begin. Stuart i wanted something more upbeat and lively with the market rally to die for. We will try next hour. Th
The stoxx 600 up by 0. 7 . It has not given up gains of yesterday. The ibex continues to outperform. It has been one of the most beaten up during the covid crisis. The s p is down by 0. 8 percent. Crude is still up, trading at 42. 82. This demand expectation goes handinhand with the travel story, but crude stocks in europe are some of the best performers. Oil certainly gaining on a number of fronts. We continue to see what is happening in the bond market, and we watch this very carefully. I think the german bond market increasingly, certainly over the last day or so, feeling like it has been driven by what is happening in treasuries. Treasuries moving up to that 1 mark, having an effect on what is happening in germany. Interest overwith the next few days. It is only tuesday. Alix thanks for that. It was an ugly close yesterday for the u. S. As guy was mentioning, eu negotiators reaching a deal on the longterm budget, expected to add about 2 to the eus economic output in the coming year
Independent president ial candidate ross perot. Ing good evening from atlanta and welcome to the Vice President ial debates sponsored by the nonpartisan commission on president ial debates. Its being held here in the theater for the arts on the campus of georgia tech. Im hal bruno from abc news and id moderate tonights keebt. The participants are republican Vice President dan quayle. [ applause ] democratic senator al gore. [ applause ] and retired vise admiral james stockdale, the Vice President ial nominee for independent candidate ross perot. Now, the ground rules for tonights debate. Each candidate will have two minutes for an opening statement. I will then present the issues to be discussed for each topic the candidates will have 1 15 to respond. This will be followed by a 5 00 discussion period in which they can ask questions of each other if they so choose. The order of response has been determined by a drawing and well rotate with each topic. End. Debate each candidate will hav
About the blockbuster revelations about hunter biden, biden got a pass, the network fix was in, beat up trump, give biden a pass. We do have news on the stimulus. A little give on the part of the white house, Speaker Pelosi and secretary mnuchin have agreed on the democrats Virus Testing strategy. It is not much, a strong report on retail sales just came out, a halfhour ago, big loss for the stocks yesterday but a rebound today in part on the back of the retail sales report. The dow is up triple digits 130 points, the nasdaq, 93 94 points higher. Censorship are very much in the news, social media may be in trouble after blocking coverage of the bombshell allegations against hunter biden, the authorities are taking a close look at facebook, twitter and other social media liability immunity after four years of obvious media biased in social media censorships and is there any doubt that you are blocked so frequently from seeing or hearing conservative opinion. We will get more on that com