Out of sectors. And amazon prime days kicked off an unusual Holiday Shopping season with retailers adapting to the challenges of the covid19 crisis. Which companies will benefit . Apple unveiled its new iphone 12. Will 5g drive a phone sales super cycle . My colleagues, ben levisohn, carlton english and jack howe. Ben, lets start with you. Mr. Market is sometimes described as manic depressive, but this week it was more sort of schizophrenia that we saw. Whats going on . Yeah. It was just a very indecisive market. There were days when investors flocked to tech, and other days the nasdaq went down, other parts of the market went up. It really just depended on the news of the day. Early in the week we had plenty of things that could have caused the market to sell off including drug trials at Johnson Johnson, eli lilly for Covid Treatment being halted, and we also saw, you know, cases of covid rising. But the market actually pulled through all that and even got some good news from pfizer.
High if that wave continues to build and coronavirus hits that is going to be the worst of all worlds combined with that recession. Against the white house to the incumbent democrats will pick up a witch. Well Something Like i think a million and a half people have already voted in california. So whats behind that tsunami david of early voting or the eager to vote for somebody eager to vote against somebody whats fueling this you see turnout turnout turnout thats what democrats want thats what the Biden Campaign wants so we have more democrats requesting ballots than republicans republicans are telling us over and over again that they want to wait until election day they want to go to the polls and that kind of late breaking want to see what happens even though democrats have been voting early and often what all of this sets up. Is the president ial election is coming down to a battle for florida. We see the challenger opening up a double digit lead in substantial lead sizable lead in
Since the conventions late august, hes hel held a lead of around 6 to 11. 6 to 10 points consistently, so the stock price between the 2 candidates has been if you will stable regardless of what President Trump has done regardless of what weve seen really related to the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg regardless of whats happened with the positive covid19 diagnosis by the president the races stabilize that doesnt mean that joe biden wins it means that hes at a consistently and continuing to talk about the coronavirus pandemic. The economy and health care, the wrapping those 3 issues together is presenting some element for the white house for how they message and how they turn around this race and theyre running out of time. What would the president have to do to turn it around. Have another debate. Book pull out thats thats a you go after joe biden was a consistent message thats been one of the difficulties is that the Trump Campaign has not been able to have a consistent message part of t
Out of sectors. And amazon prime days kicked off an unusual Holiday Shopping season with retailers adapting to the challenges of the covid19 crisis. Which companies will benefit . Apple unveiled its new iphone 12. Will 5g drive a phone sales super cycle . My colleagues, ben levisohn, carlton english and jack howe. Ben, lets start with you. Mr. Market is sometimes described as manic depressive, but this week it was more sort of schizophrenia that we saw. Whats going on . Yeah. It was just a very indecisive market. There were days when investors flocked to tech, and other days the nasdaq went down, other parts of the market went up. It really just depended on the news of the day. Early in the week we had plenty of things that could have caused the market to sell off including drug trials at johnson johnson, eli lilly for Covid Treatment being halted, and we also saw, you know, cases of covid rising. But the market actually pulled through all that and even got some good news from pfizer.
Watched his son slip away. And movie mayhem. Delays in big releases force hundreds of movie theaters to temporarily close. Well show you how the big chains are trying to cope with an industry in crisis. Crisis is the word. First, heres todays eye opener. Its your world in 90 seconds. I learned so much about coronavirus and one thing thats for certain. Dont let it dominate you. Dont be afraid of it. President trump returned to the white house where he immediately began recording a message for the nation without a mask. Saying that, you know, dont be so concerned about all this essentially. Theres a lot to be concerned about. 210,000 people have died. White House Press Secretary kay league mcenany became the latest in the president s circle to test positive for covid19. Im very blessed to have a mild case. The white house has blocked new guidelines that may have delayed a Covid Vaccine being ready before election day. The Texas Police Officer is charged with murder in the killing of an u