Shoppers are spending more during each visit during the pandemic which is good news for target. That is a bright spot in otherwise down day on wall street. Im Connell Mcshane. Welcome to after the bell. You know the numbers after the bell. We have time for the news that is happening at this hour. Fox Business Team coverage, blake burman is in washington, we have Jackie Deangelis in the new york newsroom, Ashley Webster coming up as well watching some of the new restrictions on business ahead of the holidays, well get to that in a moment, but, blake, lets start with you. Whats the latest. Reporter big news out of pfizer today, connell, 95 effective and safe that was the news out of that company as it relates to the covid19 vaccine candidate with pfizer saying they could apply to the fda for that emergency use authorization here in the coming days. Here is what pfizer said this morning about that covid19 vaccine that they are putting forth. They wrote, quote, to date the Data Monitoring
Another 8 today. Facebook, twitter ceos appearing on capitol hill. Mark zuckerberg and jack dorsey were on the hot seat over censorship concerns. Well have the highlights from their testimony in just a few moments. Im connell mcshane. Welcome, everybody, to after the bell. It us great to have you with us. Time now for the news happening at this hour. Fox Business Team coverage. We have blake burman today in washington, susan li and Jackie Deangelis both in new york an gerri willis coming up. She is watching the retail numbers. Blake, lets start with you, any update from washington on the stimulus talks with virus numbers continuing to spike . Potentially, connell, when you look especially down the road, december 11th. Why . Lawmakers need to come together to pass a spending bill so there is not a government shutdown. That is significant in its own right. Why is that also important . Because there is now starting to be some talk in washington about whether or not lawmakers could also ad
Week and its not just the dow, this is the best week for the other two major averages as well in seven months. Now to the election of what we know as we come to you at 4 00 oclock in the afternoon on friday, we still cannot call the president ial race and four key battleground states, pennsylvania where we are is one of them, were watching nevada, georgia, north carolina, uc alaska is still not called but that is suspected to stand up in the president s call, if the other for we are watching, pennsylvania, the big headline from the state, former Vice President joe biden taken the lead earlier today as a mailin both cumin, he is up by more than 14000 votes, the same thing happened overnight in georgia, as we look at george of the biden lead has been smaller but he has taken the lead by 1500 votes. We will follow with throughout this hour as we have you covered on all fronts, we have fox Business Team coverage, jacqui thJackie Deangelis, hillary vaun with abiding campaign in delhi were p
Challenges he continues to insist the election was stolen for him, one of joe bidens advisors floating idea of more lockdowns ahead of the covid19. Well get the take from the rnc all that and much more on making money. Charles well the market opened relatively flat, investors moving back into the growth names including the lockdown darlings like zoom and peloton this at the expense of the rest of the market. Despite soaring covid19 cases more restrictions an lockdowns investors are resisting panic right now. Many probably remember taking big losses last spring, only to regret it by late summer. With earnings season almost over, vaccine hopes rising with more economic restrictions what kind of guidance will we see near term that dictates Market Action . Maybe it could be the charts, folks. We know investors should mind the gap when it comes to the market. I will explain that with help of ryan capital president , ryan payne, a group im not affiliated with. And federated lisa decell, fitz
Were taking an ominous turn. Lets go to Jackie Deangelis following all of this and some of the restrictions being put in place to respond to this. Jackie. Reporter good afternoon to you, neil. Thats right. The market is lower because of spike in cases. Weve been talking about pretty much all week. That is after we got the news pfizer or biontech come to stronger conclusion on their vaccine it would be 90 effective. There are still so many questions about this. Today on mornings with maria the biontech founder talked about the vaccine, how long it might protect people. Roughly a year or so listen. Theres a good chance that the vaccine not only will protect us but could protect from infection or virulent infection for a significant period of time. I personally expect that the vaccine could protect us with, with protocol for a year. If we learn we need to reimmunize. We could do that after one year. Reporter meantime the pfizerbiontech vaccine was not the only one in the works, right . We