Charles it is the Great American comeback. On november 26th, 2018 General Motors announced the closing of its lordstown, ohio, plant. A devastating blow to hardworking americans right before christmas. Politicians promised to step up but there was skepticism. Not anymore. Lordstown motors is showcasing the 2021 endurance electric pickup truck to President Trump at the white house. The company is reporting 40,000 preorders for the new truck so far, it is working towards becoming a publiclytraded company, making this story even greater, the truck produced in that old lordstown plant that gm closed down, something that did not escape the president. President trump the area was devastated when General Motors moved out and then we worked together and we made the deal on the plant but beyond the plant, i mean its incredible what happened to the area. Its booming now. It is absolutely booming and really great. You also have room for expansion in that plant. Oh, yeah. Well come out with multip
As a matter of fact. As it closes it is closing lower, dragged down by renewed weakness today in the big tech stocks. Also energy was weak. So all of that, we will have in detail for you. The dow down about 400 points. Welcome to the show, everybody, im connell mcshane. Melissa wow. That was quite a press conference there. Im Melissa Francis and this is after the bell. The dow and the s p 500 closing down more than 1 after the biggest rally in at least two months. The tech selloff pushing the nasdaq deeper into the red after its largest gain since april. We have a lot of news to get to today. Fox Business Team coverage to cover it. Lauren simonetti following the markets. Blake burman is live at the white house. Hillary vaughn has latest on covid relief package. Kick it off with you, blake where all the action is now. Reporter we saw President Trump here as the closing bell hit and the topic again was tapes and conversations that the president had, 18 conversations, nine hours worth wit
California and how putin and trump are in a race to release the least trustworthy vaccine. Lets do this. Welcome to the daily social distancing show. From trevors couch in new york city to your couch somewhere in the world, this is the daily social distancing show with Trevor Noah Trevor lets kick things off in california. The only state where botox is considered an essential service. This years wildfire season has been one of the worst in history with dozens of fires burning a record 2 million acres. And now were finding out that one of this weekends biggest blazes started in one of the dumbest ways possible. Crews continue battling dozens of raging wildfires in california. Officials say one of the fires, the el dorado in San Bernardino county started after pyrotechnics were used in a gender reveal party. Scorched thousands of acres. Only 7 contained as of late last night. No word of any charges related to the fire. Trevor ive said it before and ill say it again, these gender reveals
Fed kicking off its meeting today. For more on what investors are watching, sarah hunt is here from alpine woods capital. What could the fed due tomorrow that would most upset the markets . Give i think they did not a lot of detail about how they were going to make sure when it was time for them to change their inflation standpoint, when was too much over. If they narrow the window and say we are looking for a tiny bit of on the inflation side. I think they are expecting inflation to run hotter if they get there for a longer time. And if they do something to narrow that window, that would make people more nervous. Newsbut in terms of the flow, have we already had it . Central banks have been dominant this year. It seems to me as if politics is beginning to take over as the key narrative, in london with brexit, and weve got all kinds of trouble in the mediterranean, we have got tension with china, and of course we have the u. S. Election coming up. So does this narrative now takeover fr
Ginsburg made the political picture in washington significantly more complicated with some analysts saying the odds of another round of stimulus before the election falling sharply. Bank stocks are getting crushed today as well amid new report about major firms dealing in suspicious funds well have more on that in just a bit. We have 59 munz left left to goy volatile session still make for the worst day in a while. Percentage terms, were down 2. 2 as we stand ahead will be all over the selloff in the final hour of trade. Billionaire investor Mike Novogratz will join us with his take on todays plunge and whether he is buying any of the dips after three straight lease losing weeks and well speak with john kerry in an exclusive interview. Well get his take on the Supreme Court, on stimulus, on the election and that final month run in of campaigning which, of course, he knows so much about lets focus in on the big stories were watching on a very busy day of news mike san toll toli is track