It pushes the companys valuation to 10 billion. We will hear from the ceo of aurora. With dizzying market rallies, ipos, couldnt we all use some calm . Of all talk to the coceo , valuation has doubled. U. S. Stocks climbing twoway record amid stimulus discussions. Lets get to Abigail Doolittle in new york to break it all down. Walk us through the day. Abigail it turned out to be a bullish reversal at the end of the day. There were pretty steep declines for the major averages. Today, the vaccine was launched. Pfizers vaccine started distribution in the u. K. There were record highs by the afternoon, and nasdaq at another record high. Chewy. Com and gamestop. They put up a pretty strong quarter, they beat estimates. The sixth sales beat in a row. I am not sure what is weighing on them as of this moment. Active customers increased, including myself. The website allows you to order for your pets. The results certainly proved it. Gamestop put up a disappointing quarter, missing sales. The s
Plus, big tex pharma. Tech pharma. Amazon launches a digital pharmacy that includes discounts and deliveries for prime members. It promises to upend the pharmacy business as we know it and may spell trouble for thousands of small pharmacies across the country. And, just what are your children watching . A new study finds if it is childrens content on youtube, it is probably littered with ads depicting violence and providing no Educational Value whatsoever. We will have all the details. First, u. S. Stocks pulled back from record highs today as u. S. Investors turn to the surge in new cases of covid19 and lockdown measures. Pharmacy stocks took a beating after amazon announced it is getting into the pharma business. Our Abigail Doolittle has more from new york. Markets generally ended the day down, but it was a big up day for amazon. How much influence did that have . Abigail lots of great headlines that you were mentioning. It was a fairly quiet day. It started risk off and ended mildl
A glitchy start. Microsofts Online Game Service is hit by an outage on the same day it introduces its newest xbox gaming console. We talked to the head of xbox this hour. U. S. Stocks dropping amid a selloff in big tech tuesday. Amazon among those caught up in it, falling as the ecommerce giant facing an antitrust complaint from the eu. I want to get to Abigail Doolittle in new york. Walk us through the factors dragging stocks down today. Abigail another mixed today. Another down day for tech and the nasdaq 100 in particular, having its worst two days in two months. You have other index is doing well such as the russell 2000 and other cyclically minded sectors. Nasdaq down for the second day in a row, the worst slide since september 8. Investors want out of this years stayathome trade. The russell 2000 gaining an alltime high as investors charging forward into the reopening trade. We have seen this playbook so many times this year, inout, inout. As for what was dragging on technology,
Proceed with caution. At least one analyst sounding alarms over skyhigh valuations. Lets get to those valuations. We start back with all u. S. Markets. Big day on wall street. The dow topping 30,000 for the first time. The s p 500 index also jumping to a record. The russell 2000 also. Abigail this reopening reflation trade back on, bringing record highs and big round numbers. Lots of euphoria over the market looking toward the second half of next year. It was like an everything rally for different stocks. Ironically, the only index to sit out was the biotech index, because ironically it is the vaccine and medicine people are so excited for smallcap banks up 5. 3 . Yesterday, apple was kind of precarious. Technically crossing some downside levels, but not so much today. Relative to the real reopening, some cruise lines, airlines sharply higher on hopes that once the vaccine gets circulated into the world, people will be traveling again and also gambling at the resorts. These are some of
That really has been down to currencies. The dollar index is up at the moment, but if you look at it over 24 hours, actually, its down by. 3 ,. 4 percent. One of the main beneficiaries of crown weakness has been strength. Sterling has been propelled about 1. 5 in the last day or thereabouts. The dollar weakness has been felt with the yen also moving to the upside. Theres another reason we are seeing upside on equities in japan. Gold not a major beneficiary, though it was at oneweek highs at one stage after the dollar was sagging earlier on. Thats a look at markets. Lets head over to tom. Tom lets get you up to speed with some of the other first word headlines. The Trump Administration is ramping up tensions with china once again, designating six asnland Media Outlets foreign which it says are controlled by beijing. They include the economic daily, which provides a look at beijing economic news. The Administration Says all six are substantially owned or by atively controlled foreign gov