Stimulus deal9 and the promise of a covid vaccine. Cloud computing giant salesforce has agreed e to buy slack in a 27 billion deal. Slacks instant messaging system will position salesforce to compete with microsoft. Warner brothers announced it will release its 2021 films on hbo max at the same time they debut in theaters. On the round table, ben levisohn, carlton english and jack howe. Ben, we got pretty weak jobs numbers today, but the market shrugged it off, and everything ended up higher. Thats right, jack, everything went higher. It doesnt matter if you were maul cap or large cap, the techheavy nasdaq or the Dow Jones Industrial average, the market just went higher. That comes down to stimulus. Congress is talking again, democrats and republicans are trying to come to a deal, this is a number out there, and it looks like it could get done. If it does, it makes up for the data. Payroll number missed expectations, but people were expecting a weak number, and the weakness is really i
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Cloud computing giant salesforce has agreed e to buy slack in a 27 billion deal. Slacks instant messaging system will position salesforce to compete with microsoft. Warner brothers announced it will release its 2021 films on hbo max at the same time they debut in theaters. On the round table, ben levisohn, carlton english and jack howe. Ben, we got pretty weak jobs numbers today, but the market shrugged it off, and everything ended up higher. Thats right, jack, everything went higher. It doesnt matter if you were maul cap or large cap, the techheavy nasdaq or the Dow Jones Industrial average, the market just went higher. That comes down to stimulus. Congress is talking again, democrats and republicans are trying to come to a deal, this is a number out there, and it looks like it could get done. If it does, it makes up for the data. Payroll number missed expectations, but people were expecting a weak number, and the weakness is really in the areas that we already knew would be weak like
Reporter the president has suggested that maybe this news had been held back until after the election. Again, no evidence of that. The president elect, the biden transition team, is actually meeting with some of the drug makers this week to talk about these vaccines but what theyre not doing is meeting with the trump team, the government officials, to talk about distributing the vaccine. Developing it is one thing but getting it out to you, your neighborhood, your familiar si, your Doctors Office a differently. That cooperation is not happening while the president continues to challenge the results and not direct his administration to work with the biden team. Joe biden not getting intelligence briefs as the situation gets worse, we now know more than 11 Million People have contracted the virus. We are in a dangerous period, the most dangerous since 1918. We need to be talking to them as quickly as possible. Its great to have a vaccine but vaccines dont save lives. Vaccinations save li
These children are dying because society has yet to decide that their lives are worth saving. Woodruff and, its friday. Mark shields and david brooks analyze the president s refusal to concede, and what a Joe Biden Administration could look like. All that and more, on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Fidelity wealth management. Consumer cellular. Financial Services Firm raymond james. Johnson johnson. The john s. And james l. Knight foundation. Fostering informed and engaged communities. More at kf. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff covid19 set all kinds of records in the u. S. This week, and none was good. Just days after passing 100,000 new cases a day, the u. S. R