Concerns about jobs and especially about the coronavirus. Well talk about it all. Im connell shane, welcome to after the bell on a friday, and its time for the news thats happening at this hour. Our fox Business Team coverage, blake burman at the white house, Edward Lawrence is in washington, jer true willis in new york. Edward, we kick it off with you and the details on the jobs report. Reporter theres still some growth, plus looking forward to stimulus. Thats what the markets like. In november the economy added 245,000 jobs, almost half as much as the the experts thought. The unemployment rate, though, dropped to 6. 7 , well below what the federal are serve estimated from last summer. Now, the administration saying this is a fundamentally strong economy, and were moving very quickly in the right direction. Listen. President trump has always add slow e candidated keeping advocated keeping businesses open and keeping schools open. Thats very important. All right, thats a good point. So
Needed for victory alan fischer has more from washington d. C. On taking the lead in georgia that could be what joe biden needs to push him over the edge if he wins a georgia its all over there is no other path to 270 for donald trump that doesnt include georgia so you see why its important big given that the lead is less than a 1000 its almost certainly going to mean a recount its almost certainly going to mean legal action as well so he could well end up in the next couple of hours being declared the winner in georgia but that doesnt mean to see that that will make him the president elect. If europe is Prime Minister says a military operation in the Northern Tier a region has clear and limited goals thats after calls for immediate deescalation from the international community. Said send in soldiers on wednesday after accusing the regions ruling t. P. I. Left party of attacking federal troops and accusation it denies the government has declared a state of emergency and a no fly zone.
Er earlier today the dow was up 1600 plus points. We almost got to 30,000. Came within 70 points of 30,000 mark. Looked like we might get there at one point and then we started to dip and fall off of that. 835 point gain which is nearly 3 is nothing to sneeze at for the dow. The s p same kind of deal, fading off the highs. The nasdaq is an interesting story well talk a lot about, down by 1 1 2 . A lot of stay at home stocks really getting hit in the tech sector today. That is a pretty big decline for nasdaq given how much the other two were up. We will cover it all. We have fox Business Team coverage. Lauren simonetti, ashley webster, blake burman, Hillary Vaughn theyre all standing by. We start though with the market rally. It fade ad bit, but still lauren up 800 points in the dow. I know. It is all about the vaccine, right . So pfizer says its Covid Vaccine trial has prevented more than 90 of infections. Pfizer and its partner biontech, look at this, 52week highs. Stocks overall did
America is come too far americas flawed too many battles burgers endured too much to let that happen we the people will not be silenced weve the people will not be bullied weve the people will not surrender my friends im confident well emerge victorious but the campaign has 5 lawsuits to stop vote counting in georgia michigan pennsylvania while calling for every count in wisconsin how many votes we have to be. 400000 is not enough. With 80 plus percent counted i think theres only 14 percent of the vote to go. If you think were stupid you think were. You know something the democrats do think youre stupid and they do think youre fools much well you get called deplorable and. Its over were going to stick with this were going to win this election weve actually won it just a matter of counting the votes fairly and its a tight race in nevada where biden has a narrow lead with 86 percent of the votes tallied so far in other news the un is calling for a deescalation of tensions in ethiopias kn
Mastercard center and we are joining with the global erinnovators group on this effot to present the presentation today. We are very honored that elizabeth of cnn is leading the conversation and as a reminder, you can submit questions when you registered and we are happy to get to those questions as part of the conversation so thank you all and welcome, elizabeth. Peggy, thank you so much and i am so glad to be here with all of these wonderful panelists we are goingha to have with us. For nearly ten months into this outbreak, covid19 is exposing deepep inequities into the systm worldwide. Right now this virusac has killd more than a Million People worldwide. Its infected more than p Million People, millions left without work and economies have been left. Nany left in terrible shape so how do we ensure that Vaccine Development and Distribution Process is unhindered by domestic and international geopolitics. Id like to introduce the guests, kathleenen sebelius is e of Americas National G