Challenges to some states results but fellow republican and former president george w. Bush says the vote was fair and gretchen i could bided has a White House Correspondent can be helped at all trumps options in the coming weeks the legal challenges will continue in fact the u. S. President wants to remind it was tweeting today that joe biden will claiming victory is the projected winner by a number of Media Outlets on twitter he said when does the lame stream media as he calls it call who our next president will be so until that vote is official and certified in mid december the True Campaign believes it has a window of opportunity so it is continuing to receive funds soliciting funds in order to finance these legal challenges that are taking place across many states. Saudi arabias king some on the crown Prince Mohammed bin sol month have joined World Leaders and congratulation joe biden and called the house the last of the gulf leaders to do so because between riyadh and washington
And iran shocks most business says and clamp down on travel as it struggles to contain a covert. 1000 search i saw says its behind rocket attacks in afghanistans capital that have killed at least 8 people. The interior Ministry Says dozens more have been injured. The, attack came just hours before u. S. , secretary of state mike on bail was due to hold talks with Afghan Government and taliban negotiators in qatar, capital, doha, doha. Earlier this week, the pentagon said it was soon pull about 2000 troops out of afghanistan. Video contre 40 begins our coverage with this report from kabul. Schoolgirls running for their lives after rocket lands near to school, part of a record needed attack on the capital. Kabul. More than 20 rockets landed in residential areas near the green zone, where many embassies are based. It was a little after 8. 30 in the morning when the 1st rocket landed in the Afghan Capital for the next 10 minutes. It felt like kabul was under attack. Witnesses say the attac
Shoppers are spending more during each visit during the pandemic which is good news for target. That is a bright spot in otherwise down day on wall street. Im Connell Mcshane. Welcome to after the bell. You know the numbers after the bell. We have time for the news that is happening at this hour. Fox Business Team coverage, blake burman is in washington, we have Jackie Deangelis in the new york newsroom, Ashley Webster coming up as well watching some of the new restrictions on business ahead of the holidays, well get to that in a moment, but, blake, lets start with you. Whats the latest. Reporter big news out of pfizer today, connell, 95 effective and safe that was the news out of that company as it relates to the covid19 vaccine candidate with pfizer saying they could apply to the fda for that emergency use authorization here in the coming days. Here is what pfizer said this morning about that covid19 vaccine that they are putting forth. They wrote, quote, to date the Data Monitoring
Shanghai composite, 3 10 of an percent of the upside. Lets have a look at what is going on currency wise. This is the dollar index. Not that much changed. Bitcoin. Oves is down nearly 2 at the moment. [indiscernible] thetocurrency left to 18,000 level. Citigroup causing a stir with a 300,000 plus estimate with regards to bitcoin. U. S. Dollar index pretty much unchanged. Stasis as weoil in wait to see what is happening with some of these internal squabbles taking place with members of opec, mainly the uae. Mitchell with the first word headlines. Early south koreas trade data shows exports extending their recovery. The yearose 11 from earlier. South korea shipments received a boost from china and the u. S. Cap exports were up almost 22 . Singapore sees at the economy expanding by between four and 6 next year as it rebounds from the virus. Thirdquarter gdp shrunk by 5. 8 on the year and the estimate for contraction was revised to six to 6. 5 . The decline for the Third Quarter compared t
Tesla getting set to take off. And tesla is up 9 today. Were going to take a look at the growing musk empire. And booming sales at walmart and home depot but the stocks not getting that same boost today. Power lunch starts right now welcome once again to power lunch, im john fort boy, its hard to swim up stream in the amazon. Cvs, wall green, right aid and dorsey and zuckerberg and ceos testify in front of the senate one bright spot in the s p 500, cruise stocks as norwegian is near the high of the session for more on the market action, lets get to bob pisani. Hello, john its sort of a choppy, indeterminate day. The market cant quite decide what it wants to do today. Weve had a great run in bank and material stocks. The cyclical names have done really well recently those are on the weak side today. Tech is kind of flattish overall today here and then we had Energy Stocks and reits. So energy has been holding up very well today and so has Real Estate Investment trusts on top of that. Te