At tray Glen Astrazeneca on the defense after critics say it failed to give an update on patient data on the vaccine trials. Futures after markets were closed for the thanksgiving holiday, they are in the green as you can see, dow jones 54 in the premarket. Weve got a lot to talk about today with wall street. Were going to have a half trading day today, markets closing at 1 00 p. M. Eastern time some good news to show you, nice gains there, the nasdaq is in record territory as the dow is looking to crack 30,000 once more today after the index crossed the milestone earlier in the week. Ruling on religious restrictions, the Supreme Court telling new York Governor Andrew Cuomo he cant put a capacity limit on houses of worship. Were on this story today. Plus, it is black friday, its going to look a little bit different. Retailers going with the shift to online sales as brick and Mortar Stores are rethinking foot traffic this year. Mornings with maria is live right now. Its a brandnew day.
From theto the concern economic hit caused by the pandemic. We have job losses here with a more modest hit in this part of the world. Else is going on out there and quickly looking at the dollar index is. We do have the dollar steady at the moment. We had the surge in the dollar seeing a little bit of a spike taking place. Being seen as a haven currency. The yen, 104. 49. New york crude, what we have here is a plunge taking place overnight. Nearly 5 . They recovered a little bit from that. 8 10 of 1 . 67 a barrel for wti. Gold the steady, but not really acting as a safe haven. We have breaking news, the dow jones reporting that it may close to buying nc, according to people and what would be the second Big Semiconductor tie up this week as the industry rapidly consolidates this deal. It could be worth 10 billion. Thats according to the dow jones. Dow jones reporting marvell could be close to buying inphi later this week. Lets get our first word headlines. Not european leaders are impos
The s p 500 below its 100 Day Moving Average, suggesting it could follow that the german dax below the 200 Day Moving Average. There is a bright spot. That is the fact we have bonds basically come at this point they are slightly lower. We have a haven bid. The dollar at the highs. The dollar had been appointed percent. 8 since june. Bonds have been higher, the best week since august. This week is shaping up risk off. Aix the public was david couple of questions. What is going on with volume and volatility . Abigail i am so glad youre asking about volume. I was looking at the apap function on the bloomberg terminal and we are above the average volume. Sellers mean business. Upfor volatility, the vix is , the nasdaq 100 fix up above 40 the nasdaq 100 vix headed toward 45, heading for its biggest spike since july. The selling pressure is serious. Because we have signs of weakness in europe along with the s p 500 being below its moving average, the near and medium term buyers are holding o
Happened. The bears breathe a sigh of relief. But is it all over as soon as it started . The cash trade is just an hour away so lets see if this has legs. Here are your top headlines. With thes a big blow nasdaq down almost 5 . The s p severs it steepest drop since june. And suffers its deepest drop since june. Bill ackman tells market jitters the National Bank to challenge santander. So, a lot going on today, as well as german factory orders. They are now out. Ofth over month, the gain 2. 8 not nearly as much as a survey, which was 5 . Over the prior number, which was 27. 9 . Yearoveryear, its a drop of 7. 3 , which is worse than the survey drop of 6. 0 . And a slight improvement from 11. 3 on the prior numbers. So during factory orders german factory orders not shining light on this. Just under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading. Futures are down in europe. And remember, yesterday we were looking at gains on the dax of more than 1 . Then we closed losses of more than
Country may be closing more wind farms when it opens every year. Germanys political leaders have given into wind power opponents have put climate protection goals at risk. When power is one of the greenest types of energy there is so why has it run aground in germany. The 18 highway in your part in northeastern germany where plans to build a wind farm along the motorway have been met with resistance from almost all the local villages. Except for. The plan for expanding wind power is to put up 7 yes 7 women turbines in fashion which belongs to those acres that some. Today will be voting for the building contractor. Kasten hope has been the maoris feel as a for 17 years and has spent years campaigning for climate protection. They were just scheduled to vote on the 7 Wind Turbines this evening. However a flyer suddenly surfaces calling on residents to protest against the plan. Not so fionnuala after all these years so many years of debate so many this happens today when we hear they have