At tray Glen Astrazeneca on the defense after critics say it failed to give an update on patient data on the vaccine trials. Futures after markets were closed for the thanksgiving holiday, they are in the green as you can see, dow jones 54 in the premarket. Weve got a lot to talk about today with wall street. Were going to have a half trading day today, markets closing at 1 00 p. M. Eastern time some good news to show you, nice gains there, the nasdaq is in record territory as the dow is looking to crack 30,000 once more today after the index crossed the milestone earlier in the week. Ruling on religious restrictions, the Supreme Court telling new York Governor Andrew Cuomo he cant put a capacity limit on houses of worship. Were on this story today. Plus, it is black friday, its going to look a little bit different. Retailers going with the shift to online sales as brick and Mortar Stores are rethinking foot traffic this year. Mornings with maria is live right now. Its a brandnew day.
Democratic politicians, examples how theyre breaking their own lockdowns. Americans lockdowns forethee, parties and trips for me. You will not believe who else is on the game. People and now more sheriffs pushing back on states from coast to coast breaking up basically the cities and states are breaking up large gatherings to stop covid19 from spreading but now sheriffs in four states are refusing to enforce these rules, including breaking up thanksgiving dinner parties under extreme covid19 lockdown measures that number of sheriffs doing that, the number of states where that is happening, that could grow. Also this, there is new hope. Pfizer says its vaccine is now more effective than realized. Maybe raising hopes of a vaccine in december. One top democrat governor is tossing cold water on that, and tossing cold water on the Trump Administrations operation warp speed coming to market. The fbi is launching a new counterintelligence probe into china nearly every 10 hours for replicating
College we need to focus on. Tom not only be Electoral College but the outcome. Divya weston gets to Election Results on the west coast tonight. There are any number of ways to slice it. My opening comment for the next 30 hours is simple. We have seen this force. This is part of america, it deeply divided america. There is nothing new about that. What is new is the social media, the cable tv concentration, the emotion in your face. It used to not be that way. Maybe we can all get comfortable by milford, New Hampshire, where they voted early, probably without tiktok or twitter. The last when its time we talked about a not so peaceful transition of power in the u. S. . We talk about possible social unrest in the u. S. I was speaking to a senior banker yesterday at one of the largest swiss banks, and he said the Trading Floor is fully prepared overnight to see whatever happens, they are prepared. It could become if there is a big surprise, it could be see extra so we will market checks to
Trillion since he was elected four years ago. President trumps stewardship of the i economy and these markets coming despite a never ending assault from the radical left, the deep state, are resistance from the rinos of his own party, a politically corrupt judiciary, not to mention a Global Pandemic unleashed by china on an unsuspecting world. 2020 has been an unforgettable year. And an impromptu press briefing today, the president hailed his administrations efforts and congratulated the American People for their part in this historic achievement on the market. I just want to congratulate everybody. The stock market, Dow Jones Industrial average just hit 30,000 which is the highest in history. Weve never broken 30,000, and thats despite everything thats taken place with the pandemic. Im very thrilled with whats happened on the vaccine front. Thats been absolutely incredible. Ing nothing like that has ever happened medically, and i think people are acknowledging that. And its having a b
The u. S. Election and there is profit taking in parts of the market. Investors, trying to figure out what a biden possible blue sweep and the senate means for markets. The focus is on brexit. Rushing outstories and we go to the fed and jobs tumbling. Oil two other stories we are watching, euro area october are thanring pmi, that expected, 54. 8 instead of 54. 4. Se extra this is pretty lockdowns. Watch down for some of the stocks because there was an input error. Maybe we look at individual countries instead of the stoxx 600 as a whole. Lets get to the first word news in new york in london with leighann gerrans. And thank you. With one day until the u. S. President ial election, democratic nominee joe biden is leading incumbent donald trump in a series of polls. He remains ahead nationally as well as in key battleground states although some of the races remain extremely close. A number of polls put widen and ahead in the key swing state of pennsylvania. The u. K. Is set to enter a loc