The transition process starting to kick in. Tom not only the good news, but just as much as there was no bad news today, and that gives a lift to equities and other adjustments in the market. Jeffrey currie will join us from Goldman Sachs, which is wonderful. Futures up 27 and we will talk about the data in a moment, but yes, chair yellen front and center in this historic moment for our politics. Francine lets get to bloomberg first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika President Trump is finally calling on his agency to cooperate in the formal transition process with joe biden. That follows weeks of inaction. The General Services Administration Made its official made it official with its acknowledgment that biden was the winner of the election. Still, President Trump says he will contest the outcome of the vote. Formeren has turned to fed chair janet yellen to be his treasury secretary. She would become the first woman in the job if she is confirmed. She is likely to wi
We start off with all the red on wall street, stocks retreating from alltime highs as the dow drops over 800 points in its biggest oneday decline since june tech starts dropping nearly 6 , snapping a tenday win streak. Is this only the beginning guy adami, what do you think hi, mel remember the carpenters . The car ppenters are one of my o five favorite bands. Weve only just begun as ive said many times, 24 hours does not a day make. I dont want to get into the vix but i will say weve talked about it now for the better part of a week and a half despite the that the Broader Market was rallying, the vix was trying to tell you something the internals of the market havent been particularly good this gets us back to levels we saw last week. I do believe its the beginning of something but it could all reverse tomorrow on jobs numbers. Weve seen it before we come back after a long weekend to find the market up significantly. Clearly there are things to be concerned about. Grasso, what did you
Or highs just yesterday alone. Bit of a pullback today. As for the nasdaq, yeah, it closed above 12,000. There was a massive runup in tech stocks again, a pullback is to be expected, and take a look at that, thats what weve got. Got it. Next, vaccine news. Very positive. The centers for Disease Control is telling states to get ready for Vaccine Distribution on a large scale come november the 1st. Which vaccine . Dont know, but this is a firm date and, of course, its right before the election. And it is exactly two months to the election, and the two campaigns are in high gear. Joe biden has reversed himself. He will travel to kenosha today. He said he wouldnt go, now he is going to be the comforter in chief. What will he say to the burnedout Business Owners . President trump goes to pennsylvania. Hell speak at Arnold Palmer airport just east of pittsburgh. Ive got a feeling hell talk about fracking. Stay with us, please. Youve got to say what Speaker Pelosi is saying about her break th
With looking at you, sorkin you are on a huge, huge screen you havent seen that. No one has a tv set. How big is that thing . 108 can you get one of these. A little too close. Back it up a little. I almost said this morning, futures down this morning after yesterdays yesterdays 300point gain so, okay they are down today. How do you sell this it was weird yesterday, wasnt it all morning long virus and all of this. End of the day, i looked it up up 300 i dont know look, the problem is that these swings we are seeing, weve all become kind of unnerved to it that was only after a loss from the day before we are looking at these up and down swings. The dow right now is still down for the week the nasdaq is indicated up for the week well continue to watch that looking at u. S. Equity futures the dow was up 300 points and the s p up 33. Nasdaq up 107 points also up about 1. 7 this morning, nasdaq is hanging in there up about 6 points and s p is off just over 3. 5 points. Yesterday, the 10year
Asias garba did the street shed jobs on the surreal 5 tech scrapping for a share of the museums printing. Cost on aljazeera for me to. See. Its been nearly 2 months since qatar implemented a series of measures to contain the outbreak of code we dont need. The government has since closed schools issued state hope i didnt post travel dazzle travelers from many countries. But one of the number of deaths here remains low infection rates continue to rights. I am hashem in doha i would be speaking to Public Health minister dr head imam of the about the governments efforts to tackle the coded 19 pandemic join me for a special talk to with the qataris Public Health minister. The firm has to worry thank you for talking to us here lets start with where we are today over the last few days a week or so weve seen a significant twice in factional rates why is that yes the number of cases has gone up but thats only natural and i believe that actually its a result of our a very strong testing measures