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
Your money . Congress is returning to washington for one more attempt at reaching a covid relief deal as Small Businesses all over the country close and for good and more lockdowns are on the way. Well get reaction from california congressmanelect and former congressman darrell issa. All that and a lot more coming up right here on making money. David so moderna is now the Second Company to file for emergency use authorization of its covid19 vaccine from the fda. The company says its vaccine is 94 effective and 100 of its study, kept 100 of its studies from developing severe coronavirus cases but while the world pins its hope on covid19 vaccines there are scientific, regulatory and market hurdles to overcome. Blake burman joining us now to break it all down. Blake, please explain to me this 100 effectiveness against severe cases of covid. How would they know that . Reporter that got the ceo, stefan bonn sell excited. When they went through the phrase three trial but there were 30 severe
Distributed, how will be it done. All of this at a time were hearing about four 45 minutes from now president elect biden and Kamala Harris will detail their own economic plan. What theyre calling their Building Back better plan. I dont know what that means but they have got a lot of union heads there as well as the chairman of gm, the chairman of microsoft, the head of target. Again, virtually, if not in person. So well be monitoring that. When that comes up about an hour 45 minutes from now. Meantime more on this excitement around moderna and what it poses to offer right here. Jackie deangelis own that. Jackie. Reporter good afternoon to you, neil. The vaccine news certainly fueling the markets today. 94. 5 efficacy. That is what moderna is saying. We had excitement from pfizer and biontech last week. The market is saying we would expected or less efficacy. This is a really important number. People are wondering what happens next. How do i actually get the virus, excuse me, the vacci
Of the covid tunnel. Two down, two to come, Johnson Johnson and astrazeneca. Thats the main reason for the big monday morning rally with the dow jones up about 450 points. Tao, 30000. If we gain 500 points the dow jones is at 30k, again in a one half percent. Smaller game for the s p and nasdaq slightly lower. That is the market. Love the rally. Hate this of violence. Trump supporters attacked in washington dc last night with tens of thousands rallying peacefully, but after nightfall violence. A limited Police Presence and virtually no mention about this in the Mainstream Media and so far no statement from the biden harris camp. Bernie sanders now says he has not met anyone who wants to defund the police. Has he talked to aoc . Editorial, the company ministration deserves credit for the Rapid Development of the vaccines. Republican states like florida deserve credit for opening their economies to get the country moving forward and democrat governors in new york and california and elsew
As timing who gets it and when, that is all still to be decided. There is a bit of a protocal for this. Well get into that with a prominent doctor as well. The left and right view on this battle, but first to blake burman on this latest news and this efficacy rate which was higher than both companies originally said, right . Reporter exactly, neil. We knew this Pfizer Vaccine candidate was effective. Pfizer though reiterating that today, in fact raising the effective rate on their covid19 vaccine candidate but just as important pfizer today also reported that they believe their vaccine candidate is safe which is why they say they are going to be applying for the eua. That is the emergency use authorization that the fda gives out. They will apply for that in the coming days. Here is what pfizer said earlier today as part of their news release they put out this morning. To date the Data Monitoring Committee for the study has not reported any serious safety concerns related to the vaccine