Plus reverberations are being felt after the doublewhammy from attorney general bill barr who said, no, the Justice Department has not found any widespread evidence of voter fraud, yes, he did appoint a special ounce sell to probe the origins of the trump russia investigation. Critics calling out nasdaq to force companies to include women and minorities on their boards. They say it is another example focus on identity politics taking precedent over efficient capitalism. President obama, remember him, attacks the party about defunding police. They need more than snappy slogans. That is drawing sharp criticism from his fellow democrats. Im gerry baker in for elizabeth mccdonald. The evening edit starts right now. Gerry we begin tonight on capitol hill where there is potential progress on delivering a covid relief package. Fox news Congressional Correspondent chad pergram has the details. Chad . Reporter good evening, gerry. The Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell is pushing socalled s
Says the first rollout could happen by mid december. The g20 discusses the virus and the potential remedies. Shotspledges to make available to all and President Trump wont say if the u. S. Will join a global effort. Haidi we are setting up for a cautious start to trading. The aussie dollar holding pretty steady. Kiwi stocks are up by half a percent. We are seeing the kiwi dollar trading just flat. U. S. Officials say the first vaccinations could be administered in just three weeks if given the green light for emergency use by the fda. Aboutare still concerns how poorer countries will be given access to any vaccine. The vaccineke Development Team has an aggressive timeline. Be do we expected to achieved and a lot of people are concerned about equitable access. Of movingre a lot parts here. A lot of movement around the world. Drug administration has an advisory meeting that day about the vaccine. Health officials really seem to think that approval could be forthcoming at that meeting or
Stimulus watch and of course, palantir, we are awaiting the opening trade set to begin really at any moment. Alex karp, the ceo will join us right here on cnbc immediately following the first trade, jon as we said, its been a long road a lot of filings. A lot to read about the company, voting structure, privacy, you name it. And the Business Model at large. Yeah. And its another big, big ipo but very different from snow flake, which we saw which has a ton of customers, large and small and kind of this very broad play on data in the cloud. This is a company thats dealing with big data and has just a few really huge customers, carl. And thats where well start this morning, jon. Josh lipton has more on what to expect once the first trade happens. Hey, josh. Carl, a master of creativity. That is how Ceo Alex Karp describes his company, palantir. A data miner, its software ahows customers to integrate volumes of data into a central platform where it can then be securely analyzed and interpr
Boris johnson is due to the side on fridawhether to walk away from the talks. New zealand prepares to vote with polls indicating the Prime Minister will be a comfortable winner. Both party leade are criticized for not doing enough for women. Breaking news out of south korea. We are getting the jobless figures for the month of ptember coming in at 3. 9 , which is much higher than analysts had expected. Its also larger than the previous month, when it came in from august at 3. 2. 300 92,000 jobs were removed in september from a year earlier and we have seen the jobless rate ssawing. We did have the virus resurgence in south korea so that hit the labor market negatively and we had typhoons in september that might have skewed the numbers. The positive boost for the labor market in south korea is the governments planned fourth extra budget that should help the employment market. S p saying it will take many years for employment to return to prepandemic levels. We have seen the bank of korea
Effect. Is still flat,n and we are watching the korean won, seeing some slight weakness this money. Indonesia is coming on the line at the moment. Chinese stock continues to extend these gains, after the reopening of the holidays. Pointing positive as well. We are spending some Inflation Numbers coming out of india. Where watching the commodities of course. That slide in for the second day. Supply constraints are starting to ease right now. Bolivia and its biggest both owed could be at capacity. And a bit ever treat in iron ore. A bit of a retreat in iron ore. Tom there seems to be potential for the currency to resume gains. Lets discuss now with fred neumann, cohead of Economic Research at hsbc. Let us bring you an update on the nba. The l. A. Acres definitely l. A. Lakers have beat the miami heat. The l. A. Lakers have now won the chairmanship 17 times. This puts them toasted so the caltex. Season one longest record. The nba was effectively frozen out by the controversial tweet back