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
Issues that are before him to to the base and really i think most importantly is expanding the map and when we look at this map the fact that we are having a conversation about georgia a state that has not gone through since 99 and 2 means that the lesson here is that all of the states matter and that we had to have a ground that is looking at states that have otherwise been just written off and that entire map is our map in this country and i think that that is going to be one of the most important lessons is that when you organize and that we focus on a strategy that lead to 5 that that we actually. To take found and see if the full cycle strategies many thanks for speaking to us not just their. Youre watching out as a reminder of where we stand with the u. S. Election and the race for the white house remains too close to call with the outcome resting on just a few battleground states the democratic candidate joe biden has taken the lead in pennsylvania georgia and nevada donald trum
Good evening from the clerk Athletic Center at the university of massachusetts and boston. Im jim of the news hour of pbs and i welcome you to the first of three 90 minute debates between the democratic candidate for Vice President , president , are gore and the democratic candidate traditionally bush of texas. The debates are sponsored by the commission on president ial debates and they will be conducted within formats and rules agreed to buy the commission and the campaigns. Tonight well have the candidates at podiums. No answer to a question can exceed two minutes, rebuttals are limited to one minute. As moderator i have the option to follow up and to extend any particular given take it another three and a half minutes. But even then those who go answer can exceed to minutes. The candidates under their rules may not question each other directly. There will be no Opening Statements and each candidate may have up to timmins for closing statement. The questions and the subjects were ch
Police clearance of a temporary migrant camp in paris. And the developers of russias new vaccine say its not just highly effective, but also highly affordable costing. As little as 20. 00. Those are world News Headlines for this hour. For more details, check out our website, r. T. Dot com. Ill be back with more in just about 60 minutes, and i hope to see you then a little in welcome to cross talk where all things are considered on puter. Now for the post mortem, how have the 2 Major Political parties changed in this election cycle . Can joe biden maintain an already weakened and divided Democratic Coalition . Is there such a thing as trump ism . Did he change the g. O. P. Or did the g. O. P. Change him . To discuss these issues and more, im joined by my guest, nick brown in washington. He is a National Coordinator with the movement for a Peoples Party also in washington. We have arvind bora. He is a former Libertarian Party president ial candidate, as well as author of the book, pull o
Its going to lauren 1st. Here. Im just very broadly speaking. How has this election changed the political environment because theres so much focus on trump, all of the time that is kind of crowded out, some of the interesting results of bissel action here, the g. O. P. Did it remarkably well, considering all of the predictions of doom and gloom, and then we see that the, the coalition that was behind joe biden, its quite fragile right now. And if you look at the demographic of vote voting demographics, a lot of surprises there too. Going to the g. O. P. So what are your major takeaways in this postmortem of this election . Well, i think the 1st thing to note is that, you know, of course the election has not officially been called yet. Electors do not vote until december 14th, just have to put that disclaimer out there. You know, of course press is still calling for biden, but trump does have legal challenges regarding the parties. I think right now both of them are much more divided th