Flying into space theres always risk. I never knew another crisis. In their own words. Life on the front lines. Meet the icu nurses volunteering to fight covid19 far from home. People are running out of unemployment checks. And the biden team talks. The plan to fight the pandemic and bring our economy back. Announcer live from cnbc global headgaurs, the news with Shepard Smith the pandemic is spiringal out of control forcing cities and states to issue new initiatives to slow the spread the United States topped more than 11 million cases. Johns hopkins reports the latest million added in the past six days alone for context, mexico reported about a million cases since the pandemic began that means weve added mexicos total caseload in less than a week and the cases arent just surging. Theyre getting more severe. At least 26 states hit alltime highs for hospitalizations last week all the ones in red here thats from the covid tracking project. More than 1,100 americans die on average each d
Thanks to pfizer well have a vaccine by the end of First Quarter that news sent the market soaring. The dow is only surging 830 points that tech heavy nasdaq, the demand of so many stocks that did well under covid19 tyranny lost in an astounding 1. 53 . What a bifurcation it is also the time. We are in the middle of a spike of infections. New cases are exploding over the country, over 100,000 a day and even the weekend we are much treating it in the spring that only matters if we have enough hospital beds a lot of people are having cavalier attitude. Hey, you are fine unless you are old. Well, guess what, a lot of us are old. The sense is understood and respected. When you have more than 100,000 new infections everyday, you are looking at a lot of fatalities we need this the truth is we tried to fight the pandemic state by state. That failed. Europeans are failing too, i know, asia is doing great. If we were serious of Contact Tracing and social distancing and wearing masks, we may be
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
Welcome, everyone, the kboel im sara eisen, here with wilfred frost. Pfizer says its covid19 vaccine candidate developed with biointech is more than 90 effective in preventing covid19 in a phase three study the cow and s p 500 hitting record highs in todays session, this after strong gains last week as well as the Election Results come into sharp focus. Seeing down sectors like airlines, cruises, banks, and energy are seeing outsized returns today on the vaccine news while the stayathome winners like zoom, peloton, and amazon are coming back to earth. Nasdaq is actually negative with this more than 1,200 point rally on the dow 59 minutes left to go on a historic day on wall street. Nasdaq hovering around the flat line. Big gains for the dow. Coming up on the show, a massive guests line ups. We will discuss the vaccine, the election, what it all means for your money with huge names nelson peltser will weigh in with his thoughts on what the market is doing as we speak. The chamber of com
Populating wall street are a bunch of weather man everyday you hear the forecast today the dow slipped some points nasdaq declined 1. 2 it is enough to make you take a meteorologist course to see which way the wind blows seems like both ways blowing at the same time. The tail wind dies and the market goes right back down again. You dont care about todays weather, what good is that for you on the forecast . It is easier said than done. How do you navigate your way through the confusing markets. Starting with the winds from the vaccine. We know it is a huge tail wind for the economy. Once people are vaccinated, we can open everything back to normal and more restaurants and retailers will make it and there will be more jubilation. The jubilation that kohls got underneath its stocks and malls can reopen and troubled retailers can be able to shooure and macys the younger robin hood traders are betting heavily on the cruise line, between the vaccine and soon enough well be able to take a cru