Years. That is the best month of the year, im connell mcshane. This is the closing bell. Time for news of the hour. Jackie deangelis in new york, blake burman in white house, Hillary Vaughn with the president elect in delaware and Edward Lawrence in washington with the latest on the covid19 relief deal. A lot of moving parts well get into. The market is back in rally mode. Good afternoon, jackie. Reporter good afternoon, connell. Well talk about the records we set today with the s p 500 and also the nasdaq. Look at the gains there we beat what we were expecting handily. You only needed 16 points on the s p and only needed seven on the nasdaq. This was a strong broad based rally today what is interesting big tech continues to gain on this momentum and continues to go higher from there. Facebook, apples, amazon, microsofts of the world are continuing to climb up. That is something you expect to hear. Again it wasnt just tech, it was broadbased. Look at the dow winners you can see we have
The s p up 11 the dow up nearly 13 on pace for its best month since january of 1987. The nasdaq up about 12 . Check out the small caps because the russell 2,000 is up almost 21 in november alone. Thats the stock world but, melissa, our other favorite topic, bitcoin thats been moving a lot, too. Maybe joes favorite topic, at least bitcoin after recently hitting 16,000 were seeing it recoop some of those losses in recent days its up by almost 2 today, above 18,000, 18,540 guggenheim is reserving right for 5. 3 billion Macro Opportunities Fund to invest up to 10 in the Gray Scale Bitcoin Trust which is only invested in bitcoin and of course this follows many large investors including stanley drunken miller voiced support for this krip cro currency, joe. Yes, it has been getting traction interesting recent trading and good to see you, melissa and andrew its tough to come back from vacation, but having you here, melissa, i dont know, it just makes me feel very, very comfortable, happy my he
Irelands Prime Minister told bloomberg that the outline of the u. K. E. U. Trade agreement is clear on both sides, but it is not clear that Boris Johnson wants a deal. Has let is set to join the s p 500 next month as its biggest ever new member. Just one hour to go until the start of the european trading day. We have the numbers from easy just. The Lowcost Airline is he easy jet. 4. 5 . Down this is a fullyear set of numbers bearing in mind when the end of the easyjet fullyear is, in november. The revenue is attached below the estimate of 3. 08 Million Pounds. Get to something that loss, 835e, pretax million. That is one of the things we need to understand. It will not the recommending payments of a dividend. A big question for is a jet when we get to see the ceo is, is november the worst of it . Hsbc saying that november may be as bad as it gets for the european airlines. Doesnt feel that way from the aviation flight deck, for could things become more difficult as we get through the w
Again. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell failing to concede the election to joe biden just yet. The fed put out a warning on asset prices. The rally to a two month high. Since the highest levels 2018. The index at a record high. So much to really chew over. Joe such a wild start to the week of course. Digesting the election, the light at the end of the tunnel. Here is a chart. It is a number. But here is a pair. This is one of the favorite pairs of neil over at renaissance macro. To bike atot need home. There you see the entire story of the day, those two numbers. Romaine someone else made this for us, about vacation time. A big part of enthusiasm today is that we will finally all get out of the house and go back out to restaurants and, more importantly, to travel. The Consumer Confidence index tracks intended vacation. You can see that basically dropped off a cliff. Still has a pretty long way to go. I thought this was interesting. Earlier on this up the other show that we host w
Protests and demonstrations that at times have gotten violent and destructive. Local Police Departments say theyre worried the violence might surface again on Election Night regardless of the outcome bay area businesses are either boarding up again or simply staying boarded up kron fours dan thorn is live in berkeley tonight, he joins us with more on what police have plan and what the residents are expecting to dan. Well ken and pam some bay area Police Departments say they are increasing staffing on election day and the following days and theyre also canceling any discretionary time off its been said before that this is likely going to be an election unlike any other and police are not taking any chances. Businesses throughout the bay area are boarding up or are continuing to stay that way as election day nears depending on which way the elections go police in Berkeley Oakland and San Francisco are also preparing for potential unrest by increasing staffing to help keep the peace open