The open this morning we will get really close again to 30000 on the dow. Heres another positive in all the transition from trump to biden has begun and investors like it, the dow was up 1 , 300 points, s p up three quarters in the nasdaq up close to half a percentage point, lots of green this morning and theres this, john kerry is back, the climate envoy and will sit on the National Security council, not good news for Americas Energy independence. Kerry will try to take us back into the paris climate record, but here is a guy taking us to the future, elon musk, yesterday as tesla stock rallied musk gained 7 billion in one day, he is worth 128 billion in the last week he surpassed Mark Zuckerberg and bill gates to become the second richest in the world, jeff bezos remains firmly in the number one spot. On todays show lets celebrate thanksgiving, the timing on the restrictions but resistance is growing, scott shalit he will join us from arizona hes part of the great exodus and will take
Watch tonight and enjoy American History tv every weekend. Last week, Pharmaceutical Company pfizer announced they have a vaccine for covid19 that is 95 effective. The ceo of the company and bill gates recently talked about the encouraging results from the vaccine and how they would distribute it to the public. Welcome back to deal book. It is a privilege to be with all of you, we have a very, very special conversation planned for right now. We want this to be as interactive as possible. I hope youll all join us in the comments asking questions to bring to our guests. And also planning to ask you a couple of questions. Were going to take advantage of some of the Polling Technology this afternoon. As i said, this is a conversation ive been looking forward to all day and for many weeks now. We are joined by bill gates. Somebody who needs no introduction. Ive had the privilege to know bill for quite some time. And to talk to him throughout this pandemic. And he is far and away the smartes
Now, i cant get over it. Welcome, everybody. Hope you had a wonderful thanksgiving. Im neil cavuto. This is coast to coast. Were concentrating on the last day of trading for the month of november. Ion with the shellacking the Dow Jones Industrials is getting right now it is still looking at one of the better months weve seen in quite a few years. As a matter of fact, at the rate were going unless we really tumble out much bed here the strongest month since january 1987. Ignore what happened hater in that particular year. But for now were putting a capper on what is incredible comeback month included a surprising, legally infighting president ial election, pandemic spiking cases all over the the world. Yet with a comeback to put agrees on grease on the skids. Were getting growing indications this will be impressive run. Usually when you have a strong november you have a strong december. You put a capper on the year as a whole. A lot notwithstanding on optimism were competing for vaccine
Now, is that right . David over the past 15 years, one of the most successful ceos in the world has been bob iger. He led disney to its greatest heights, increasing the market value by 400 . He did that through acquisitions of 21st century fox, lucasfilm, pixar, and Marvel Entertainment. Now the question what is he going to do next . During the time that you were the ceo, the stock market value of the company went up about 450 and the market capitalization about 400 during time year period of my big regret is that i didnt back you and buy stock, but you must be very pleased with what you accomplished. Bob proud would probably be the right word to use. I inherited a company that was renowned and had been quite successful, but had also gone through a period of difficulty. There was a lot of work to do. My goal was to not only improve the company, but to ultimately leave the company in great hands for my successor. David you werent as successful in leaving the company, because you wanted
Close at the open. The road map begins with that renewed vaccine optimism and detailing their own strong data. Plus as for the market, the u. S. Stocks poised for new records and the futures are and investor optimism about that vaccine and dow is within striking distance of 30,000. We have a lot of deals this morning. Pnc looking to become one of americas largest banks and set to buy spanish bank and 11. 6 billion the Purchase Price and other deals to tell you about this morning carl lets start with the moderna news excellent news for the second week in a row. Dr. Fauci on some of the networks earlier today saying the data are striking and the results are just as good as it gets i really think we have to go back just a couple months and recognize that even if we had any hope that there would be a successful vaccine maybe 70 , 80 . 50 to 60 for the flu is something we learned moderna Insider Selling was bad and turns out the Insider Selling was bad meaning they sold badly i do think wha