It pushes the companys valuation to 10 billion. We will hear from the ceo of aurora. With dizzying market rallies, ipos, couldnt we all use some calm . Of all talk to the coceo , valuation has doubled. U. S. Stocks climbing twoway record amid stimulus discussions. Lets get to Abigail Doolittle in new york to break it all down. Walk us through the day. Abigail it turned out to be a bullish reversal at the end of the day. There were pretty steep declines for the major averages. Today, the vaccine was launched. Pfizers vaccine started distribution in the u. K. There were record highs by the afternoon, and nasdaq at another record high. Chewy. Com and gamestop. They put up a pretty strong quarter, they beat estimates. The sixth sales beat in a row. I am not sure what is weighing on them as of this moment. Active customers increased, including myself. The website allows you to order for your pets. The results certainly proved it. Gamestop put up a disappointing quarter, missing sales. The s
Businessweek is really taking everyone by storm. Tom they mentioned all the right schools as well. I think it is true probably in every urban area, but after real estate it is the focus of new york city, what to do with the cherubs in not only the private schools, but i would also mention the stateoftheart anything,ools are, if even more competitive. The schools with a heritage up in boston, boston latin. They are just as hard to get into as the other fancy schools. Do spend a lot of time thinking about education for our kids, and these fouryearolds actually have to do tutoring, but also applications and interviews to get into these kindergartens. I find that fascinating. We will talk about Central Banks much more. Thats get to bloomberg first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika President Trump has fired a Homeland Security official who contradicted his unfounded claims about election fraud. Christopher krebs is a former Microsoft Official who the president named to a top security job.
Election. Well get the latest from Trump Campaign attorney jenna ellis. Joe biden set to unveil a plan for the economy. Will it include canceling debt, more lockdowns . What about the green agenda items . Well have a live report from wilmington coming right up. That and so much more on making money. Charles another strong session for the stock market, folks and the underlying force is really optimism. Wall street breathed a sigh of relief when the blue wave did materialize and the assumption that the gop holds the senate. The vaccine news allowed investors looked beyond the dark winter to a springtime of renewal that begins sort of in march well see normalcy built into the market right now. The notion was reinforced on moderna, they have a vaccines 95 more effective than pfizers. As a result of the burst of optimism, weve seen money pouring into equity funds by the way is a rare occurrence, particularly domestic funds. Individual investor bullishness surged and were greeted now with bi
The strongest week since back to april. However, you have to put that in context. Two weeks ago was a lousy week in fact, two weeks ago the dow lost just over 1800 points, down by 1833 points last week the dow was up by 1821 points so that was a giveback for the dow kind of starting things over if you look at the other major averages, they got back much more ground than they had lost the previous week. Last week the s p was up 329 points after being down 195 the week before and the nasdaq was up by 983 points last week after losing 636 points the week before but again these gains this morning are significant ones they are adding to what we saw last week. Also, take a look at whats happening in the treasury market youll see that right now the treasury, the tenyear, is yielding 0. 812 so its stabilized after bouncing around quite a bit during the election and the election counting last week stabilized at 0. 812 andrew thanks, becky our top story this morning, president elect biden wastin
Message in the market that we need to Pay Attention to i think its interesting because last weeks the markets were so weak and everyone felt so despondent that this week was going to be just a replay of last week. I think that as the election is here today, people are settled, i think, into the fact that we will have a result i thisnk the market thinks we will have a result in the next 24 hours i think we all have fatigue from this election and i this i just havi i think just having a decision is what the market is pricing in now and after the decision, well go from there. I think the market is positive for clarity. It may not be clear but well see tomorrow what actually happens. Unless the market is getting ahead of itself. If you go by our cnbc states of play poll, only one in five think youre going to have an answer tonight on election night. The market seems to be acting over the next couple of days like were going to go to bed knowing who the next president will be or donald trump