95 points higher. You know liz mentioned this down the stretch of her show, russell 2000, the small cap stocks, dow transports they both closed at records today as well. That is kind of day. A lot of green and really big day for stocks. Im Connell Mcshane. We welcome you to after the bell. Those are the numbers at the close. Time now for the news thats happening at this hour. We have fox Business Team coverage with Jackie Deangelis in the new york newsroom, blake burman reporting from washington, also get to Hillary Vaughn in wilmington, delaware, president elect biden just wrapped up there remarks on the economy but blake, lets start with you. That is the big news today. That Moderna Vaccine. Tell us about it. Reporter they expect, connell, moderna does to apply for the eua, emergency use authorization in the next couple weeks. Maybe distribute the covid19 vaccine by the end of the year. When you look at numbers on the Clinical Trials it is about as good as they hoped for. Here they a
It right here live. And we are looking for more market records today. The dow and s p and the nasdaq, all expected to make records. It was a year ago today that the market was in freefall. Remember that . It was about 6,000 points lower on the dow. That is very much not the case today. Varney company is about to begin. David and there is news overseas. We are watching hong kong this morning. Monthslong protests are flaring up once again. Riot police fired tear gas at protesters this morning. We are going to be monitoring this throughout the morning right here. But lets focus on some positive news at home. A brand new sales record, Super Saturday sales hit 34. 4 billion, the biggest single day of retail sales in u. S. History. The figures coming from Customer Growth partners. Joining us is retail watcher michael zacore. Ive got to think this is all about the economy. We have fatter wallets because people are making more. Weve had increase in wages and we have jobs galore. Is that why pe
The thousands of israeli troops in the south staging. After winning in different combats against hamas, we found on their bodies different instructions. How many people to rape. What to do with them afterwards. To behead the bodies. The terrorists as you can see were dressed in idf uniforms. Once people opened the door, they sent rpgs in the house. Two hostages have been released in gaza. 17 days into the war, the red cross now confirming two israeli hostages have been released from gaza. This is as israel holds off on the Ground Invasion. Welcome. Im Charles Payne in for neil cavuto, this is your world. First to mike tobin and what were learning about the two additional releases and the chances for more. Mike . You mentioned, charles, the red cross confirms that were now getting pictures of the two israeli hostages that have been released from a hamas captivica. A 79 and 80yearold. A release was put out earlier today saying that they were released for humanitarian reasons. Hamas is th
From anyone. We will take you there live as soon as it begins. The white house just responding to the president s cryptic warning to the world, what he meant when he said, quote this, is the calm before the storm. Melissa he was trolling everyone. David he was at an event with a lot of military people behind him. What was he talking about . Ambassador john bolton with ideas of his own. He will share them with us. The gulf coast bracing for impact after Tropical Storm, a Tropical Storm storm called nate. It could be hurricane by the time it hits new orleans. They already declared state of emergency there. We are tracking the storm. Melissa the dow ending the day lower, nasdaq at new record high. Quickly go to Nicole Petallides on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Nicole a surprise drop in the jobs number last month. It looked like it phased market but could have been worse for sure. They were right. They knew this would be a tough number and the whisper numbers, some which were
Moment. Josh, i understand you have breaking news about a white house official for us . Thats right. This is the Top White House official responsible for russia and europe, andrew peak. Nbc has now learned from two u. S. Officials as well as one former u. S. Official that peak has been put on administrative leave indefinitely pending a securityrelated investigation. We dont know exactly the nature of the investigation, but peak had been scheduled to join the president at the davos forum this week, he has been pulled off the trip and will not be at the white house while this investigation plays out. Peak is someone who had taken over the russia portfolio at the white house after handling mid east affairs over at the state deputy. We will bring you more as relearn it. Josh gets lets get back to the houses not so brief brief. After filing they released a statement saying the presidewhe president got caught he tried to cover it up by obstructing the houses investigation into his misconduct