Out of sectors. And amazon prime days kicked off an unusual Holiday Shopping season with retailers adapting to the challenges of the covid19 crisis. Which companies will benefit . Apple unveiled its new iphone 12. Will 5g drive a phone sales super cycle . My colleagues, ben levisohn, carlton english and jack howe. Ben, lets start with you. Mr. Market is sometimes described as manic depressive, but this week it was more sort of schizophrenia that we saw. Whats going on . Yeah. It was just a very indecisive market. There were days when investors flocked to tech, and other days the nasdaq went down, other parts of the market went up. It really just depended on the news of the day. Early in the week we had plenty of things that could have caused the market to sell off including drug trials at Johnson Johnson, eli lilly for Covid Treatment being halted, and we also saw, you know, cases of covid rising. But the market actually pulled through all that and even got some good news from pfizer.
On englands toughest lockdown level. Stocks higher on signs of a stimulus bill before the u. S. Possible. S still nancy pelosi tells bloomberg an agreement is urgently needed, by the white house warns there is still a ways to go. Shill. Etflix shares they miss estimates for subscribers. The forecast suggests the pandemic boom is starting to fade. You can see how the shares have fallen 6 . We are under one hour away from the start of cash trading in europe. Lets take a look at what futures are indicating this morning. Kind of a mixed picture and not a lot of size, no direction or size. Ftse futures are down 0. 10 . 0. 10 . Ures are up take a look at what u. S. Futures this morning after the netflix , ahead of thee tesla results, you can see gains here. 0. 5 . Tures of about nasdaq futures gaining 0. 3 . Anna lets get to the breaking news. We have data coming from the u. K. Inflation numbers first. The cpi number, month on month is a 0. 4 . Survey. St under the that seems to be the theme
Back at some of the weeks big moments in this weeks edition of the weeks talkers. Watch. Maria you have a scenario that you believe took place here. Tell us what you see. Oh, definitely. They framed general flynn because he was the cornerstone of the insurance policy to destroy President Trump in the event he was elected. Maria youve been talking about this, something was to come, for some time. If you take a look at this hard drive and youre an fbi agent, youre compelled to do something about it because there are things on it that havent come out yet that if any fbi agent sat by and watched it, they shouldnt be an fbi agent. Maria the fbi was leaking stories to web sites, and then they would use those stories that they leaked as evidence to renew the warrants to spy on the trump campaign. This is a scandal, and it stinks. If you look at what the Obama Administration did, it politicized the fbi, the department of justice, the cia. It used them, essentially, as a political Oppo Research
Back at some of the weeks big moments in this weeks edition of the weeks talkers. Watch. Maria you have a scenario that you believe took place here. Tell us what you see. Oh, definitely. They framed general flynn because he was the cornerstone of the insurance policy to destroy President Trump in the event he was elected. Maria youve been talking about this, something was to come, for some time. If you take a look at this hard drive and youre an fbi agent, youre compelled to do something about it because there are things on it that havent come out yet that if any fbi agent sat by and watched it, they shouldnt be an fbi agent. Maria the fbi was leaking stories to web sites, and then they would use those stories that they leaked as evidence to renew the warrants to spy on the trump campaign. This is a scandal, and it stinks. If you look at what the Obama Administration did, it politicized the fbi, the department of justice, the cia. It used them, essentially, as a political Oppo Research
Says, comparing xoe ce ining cou once again as the death toll crosses 2 10,000 the white house is blocking new fda vaccine guidelines for the coronavirus and the eu is putting the Pfizer Covid Vaccine on a fast track. Shares of pfizer and bioand tech are moving higher ahead of the bell stimulus talks, maybe were stalled again. Theyre set to talk by phone again today. But well, who knows at this point. Hard to say. I wouldnt even try to venture a guess as to whether they make progress they did talk for an hour on the phone yesterday. Pelosi told Democratic Leaders today that talks are going slowly. Right well, look, gary kelly is one of the greatest executives that i have ever met. And he was on squawk and he is actually doing some shortterm furlough, get people back. When hes doing it, you go ta action. Gary is one of the foremost his record is the whole airline record to never lay people off i think thats a clarion call to washingt washington if gary has to do layoffs, there are other