New details on a possible Coronavirus Vaccine. Edward. Reporter connell that is what is propelling the markets today. We have positive news out of two vaccine makers. The first one pfizer. The ceo of pfizer says they will have enough Critical Data in october to be able to submit for approval should everything go as expected. He has said this before but this is a little different because it comes as astrazeneca saw a minor setback of trials in their vaccine. The pfizer ceo says he sees americans start being vaccinated before the end of 2020. The u. S. Government secured 100 million doses from pfizer this year with an option to get 500 million more next year. As of today, more than 29,000 people are in a phase three trial for pfizer. The fda hopes to have 30,000 volunteers and pfizer says it will be there next week on the way to 44,000 people. Of those, 24 in the study are minorities. That is something that the fda wants to see. They want to make sure this works among a Diverse Group of
On that. Charles, thank you. Whatever the answer, right, the markets are showing extreme optimism as we head into the final hour of trade. New vaccine hopes are adding to the mix and yes, right now, the dow is topping 28,000 by a single point. The nasdaq, back above 11,000. We are at 11,044. The s p is moving higher by 1. 33 after two straight weeks of selling. Oracle says its won its tech battle against microsoft to partner up with the chinese social media superstar tiktok but at this hour, Chinese Media saying yeah, but you didnt win the war. Top tech analyst colin gillis on whether oracle is getting snookered and Charlie Gasparino on those now crying crony capitalism. What does the latest Covid Vaccine progress mean to some of the pandemic stock superstars . The ceo and cofounder of okta is here on whether a return to work will cut into all the business hes done in the lockdown era. And the nfl is back and with it comes an explosion of gambling apps. One of the biggest digital sport
This weekend, but again, these are fast moving pieces. Were looking at uber and lyft that might be exiting california because of some new requirements that they treat their freelance workers like employees. That could be a costly issue for them, so much so even though it accounts for about 60 of their combined business, the state of california alone they would still leave rather than put up with that. In new york city, forget about the virus, forget about eventually opening up gyms next week, the fact of the matter is, new york city is a safety concern right now with residents in once red hot real estate markets saying enough. It has gotten so bad theyre bolting. The visitors upon hearing this, theyre just not coming. So were following that. Right now were also following the drama in washington as at least the house considers coming back to deal with this postal issue. Chad pergram on that. What are we talking about here, chad . Reporter the house of representatives is going to meet on
This just a correction or is there Something Else more insidious involved . I wouldnt use the c word. I would say this is profittaking pullback. That is all this is. Remember, the nasdaq, top 100, ndx were up 75 straight up off the lows. Even after this pullback were off 10 from the highs, theyre sill up 66 . Looking at the s p, right now as it stands is 50 off that march bottom. So the end is not near. This is just a profittaking pullback. This same situation is in place. Lets see how things react. Even with today, were only down 3 in tech. That is not much at all. What i like to see with vix. The vix has a lower high than it had on friday even though the s p had a lower low. That is very much a positive. David jonathan what do you think . The end is not here. This is just a pullback. We could be way up again momentarily after the pullback is finished. What do you think . Put me in the bear camp, you have 80 new, 20day highs, excuse me, only 8020day lows. And the pendulum is to the be
Talk about a uturn, we had a swing from high to low, 875 points on the Dow Jones Industrial average and it closed at about 160. The nasdaq at one point down 582 and at the close the nasdaq is off of about 140 points. It is down maybe 702 days which is pretty intense and you can finally see the s p 500 down not even 8 or 28 points. Why the selloff, why the rally back, as for the cello question the wall street journal was reporting a jump in trading volumes and options that are linked to Technology Companies and as for the uturn major rent from the record that we had on wednesday and that mightve been overdone with that technology. Delete they come back mainly apple, it was down over 8 at the lot but in did hire a bit and it averted a threeday losing streak, other tech names, the work from home stuff, they did continue to get humbled suggesting that investors are betting on the economy reopening a little bit. Look at that down about 5 tod today, with the economy reopening you have airlin