Communities with inclusion and id like to take a moment to recognize our members attending today. They continue to be the background of support for the club and help enable us to offer wonderful and diverse programming now and in the future and we also like to welcome members of the 20 20 class of fellows with rising nexgen business. [inaudible] its an honor for me to introduce our special guest today, trustee at the economic club, deanna mulligan. Deanna was chief executive officer in 2011 and served in that role until this month. She joined in 2008 the Vice President to leave the company in its Spiritual Life and was appointed to presidency operating officer assured as a trustee on the board of the vanguard group, a position she held since 2017 and has a background in both energy and operational themes. [inaudible] she was previously a director on the board of arts council and active in the industry and in the daa and directors of life insurers and the department of Financial Service
The s p up 11 the dow up nearly 13 on pace for its best month since january of 1987. The nasdaq up about 12 . Check out the small caps because the russell 2,000 is up almost 21 in november alone. Thats the stock world but, melissa, our other favorite topic, bitcoin thats been moving a lot, too. Maybe joes favorite topic, at least bitcoin after recently hitting 16,000 were seeing it recoop some of those losses in recent days its up by almost 2 today, above 18,000, 18,540 guggenheim is reserving right for 5. 3 billion Macro Opportunities Fund to invest up to 10 in the Gray Scale Bitcoin Trust which is only invested in bitcoin and of course this follows many large investors including stanley drunken miller voiced support for this krip cro currency, joe. Yes, it has been getting traction interesting recent trading and good to see you, melissa and andrew its tough to come back from vacation, but having you here, melissa, i dont know, it just makes me feel very, very comfortable, happy my he
Plus Perus Congress chooses a former World Bank Official to be the countrys new president. Its 3rd this week. And al jazeera obtains recordings of one of the worlds most wanted men, trying to negotiate him. Unity from prosecution. And in sports reigning champions, algeria and qualified for the africa cup of nations. The desert fox is advance despite being held to a 22. 00 draw by zimbabwe in harare. Theres more good news in the battle against covert 19, but also warnings to the world to not to let down its guard as infections continue to soar. The u. S. Pharmaceutical firm modernists says early results from trials show its facts in is 94 points. 5 percent effective. Far exceeding expectations. We have about 20000000. 00 doses of vaccine by the end of this year. And were looking forward to making about 500000000. 00 to a 1000000000 doses next year. But that is going to be a 247 operation. It wont be maternal, it wont solve this problem. Its going to require many vaccines as weve been sa
Good evening. My name is trevor fromhe boston book festival. Thank you so much for joining us this afternoons 2020 session, can business save the world. I would especiall like to think everyone including a donation en they register for this free event. It would like to purchase the book by todays presenters, were also suppoing independent bookstores in the bbf, which made it easy. Just cli by t book linkt the bottom of the screen. No i like to talk about them moderator, cofounder of fsg and the author of influential publicions on sharealue catalytic herapy, strategic evuations and impact insting. Thank you trevor and it is wonderful to be here and these ar two outstanding womanhood just written two books the long and a book shelf. Where used to thinking about business as being the source of so any problems in the world today. Its quite refreshing to he a panel that talks abo whether business can save the world and while that is a large and openended question. Trevor our two authors tod
Of the vaccine and the test helping stock prices. Dow jones up about a hundred points at the open, seven for the s p and eight for the nasdaq more retailers reporting this morning and target looks good work samestore sales up 20 , another measure of the strength of Consumer Spending, just like walmart, target stock up 2 at the moment. Look at this, bitcoin crossed 18000 per coin and has backed off to 17855, about a thousand dollars or shy of its alltime high 19640. I was a skeptic, maybe its Something Else i should have bought that didnt like apple, tesla, amazon, zoom and so many more. We do have a jampacked show. New york Governor Cuomo says President Trump had nothing to do with the Rapid Development of the vaccines. You will see him say it. Boeing gets max judd approval and is now ungrounded. How about this for thanksgiving, noticing, no shouting, kp the music down so you dont have to raise your voice and my off the alcohol. New restrictions for thanksgiving is growing. Varney co.