John malone with the legendary media icon has to say about the covid19 virus, direct to consum consumer, streaming, so many other topics we hit in our hour long shutdown. The ceo of goodrx, we had him last week, since then, amazon came into the business what does it mean for his business carl, well ask that question amongst others. Yeah, thats good stuff for this hour, guys. Jim, we talked for last week and a half about the fact that a path to the vaccine would face some setbacks and clearly new york city schools, new state of emergency in wisconsin, speak to that i think that one of the things that we needed was a bridge, which would be stimulus, to the vaccine we dont have the stimulus were getting terrible numbers, we have half the country that thinks the numbers are okay, given the fact that the death rate hasnt skyrocketed. We have the other half, were saying, look, if we dont do something about it, then the Healthcare System is going to be overwhelmed. In that scenario, it is ver
Answers and there are many stories make up your double made for mines. , infection rates are rising and so are jobless claims. U. S. , economy, braces for another blow as chase numbers reach, new heights. More states impose business locked outs with the latest from new york. Also on the show deal or no deal. Time is running out for brussels and london to agree to a trade agreement. Before the new year, a coven is complicating the negotiations. And will drop in on the french film industry. Actors and production numbers are bouncing, worked with safety, made a 2nd wave of growth of hers infections. Welcome to the show. Im Stephen Beardsley in berlin. Its good to have you with us. The new figures show u. S. Jobless claims have risen for the 1st time in more than a month. The countrys Labor Department reporting that 740000 americans applied for Unemployment Benefits last week. Thats up about 30000 in the previous week. The rise suggests that climbing infection rates and tightening business
Foreign policy. Im tired. Ray, thank you for joining me. E. U. Leaders have not managed to end a diplomatic route that is stalling its long term budget and the release of a message and see coronavirus stimulus funding. Now poland and hungary are unhappy about plans that would allow the e. U. To block payments to countries that it decides are corrupt or violate the rule of law. Now the 2 countries say that these takut stem, the deadlock, involves some 1. 8, trillion euros, nearly half of which is aimed at helping the e. U. Deal with the effects of the pandemic. Possible to need to do in this hugging room is providing some comfort. The 2nd wave of covert 19 is heating italy just as hard as the 1st wave did in the spring, and the economic consequences are equally rough. Italy, along with many other e. U. States, is anxiously awaiting a multimillion euro e. U. Finance package to help ease the coded 19 crisis. But the funds are being blocked at a Virtual Summit on thursday. Hungary and pola
We will bring you fast money trades straight ahead. We start off with a zombie ap k apocalypse on wall street. Many icons are among the walking dead like macys carnival, delta. Nearly 200 companies have joined the zombie rank since march. Total debt obligations nearing 1. 4 trillion dollars a lot of these names are names we talk about trading on this show how should we start thinking about this before we get into the walking dead, i want to point out, a great job by our crack staff leading with the cranberry zombie, and delores was the founder of the zombie. I may have gone with Something Like this if the crack staff is listening. We are now two minutes into the show its important to point this out because folks at home are paying attention apparently more important than actually trading our first topic in what is known as the ablock of the show. Its not more important its important we will talk about ablock and Zombie Companies last night we talked about macys and we talked about the
Im on Francine Lacqua. Weve had quite interesting and big political news in the u. S. That started late last night, overnight and first we know that transition is more on its way than was 24 hours ago. Global stocks advancing on the back of that. If you look at what stock markets are taking a positive, the general source of administration acknowledged joe biden was the apparent winner of the election and the move reduced Political Uncertainty in the u. S. , giving biden access to Current Agency officials, briefing books, 6 million in funding and the market. Energy stocks leading the stoxx 600. Travel companies. Banks also notching gains. Haven assets weaker. We are getting some eco figures. Looking forward to speaking to the president of the Ifo Institute shortly. The estimater than of 87. 5. Ifo coming up in 15 minutes. Here is leighann gerrans. Englands National Lockdown ends next week but Prime Minister Boris Johnson says it will be replaced by a tougher threetier system of regional