Americas Largest School system closed. The Ripple Effect of our kid being sent back home and a cnbc special investigation. Faster payments mean faster fraud. Criminals using popular apps to launder cash meant for americans. Good evening more good news to report on the vaccine front tonight and it comes at a dire point in the pandemic just an hour ago we got word the United States has now topped more than a quarter Million Deaths thats more than strokes, suicide and car crashes typically kill in a full year. The virus killed more than 1,700 americans yesterday alone. Johns hopkins reports its the deadliest day in six months. In addition, hospitalizations hit another high more than 76,000 people in the hospital for covid, according to the covid tracking project by nearly every available metric, the pandemic is worse than ever, everywhere across the country. For months new york city kept its positivity level very low. Now its rising and forcing the Largest School District Court in the nat
Stock hitting what . An alltime high ahead of its investor day next week, despite all the obstacles that face its parks and movie businesses weve got those details. Look at disney run and later the director of National Intelligence says china is the greatest threat to the United States and wall street may be getting stuff in the middle of the war of words we will explain as power lunch begins right now thank you, ty. Record highs across the board including the russell small cap two 2000 lets go to dom chu. The composite index is still up on the yeartodate basis offer the last few months, the gap or difference between the dow and s p has stayed relatively constant. Still, though, the s p up 14, the dow up 5 to 6 on that yeartodate basis looking at other trends in the markets today, look at shares of caterpillar. One of the bigbigg egebiggest ie biggest contributor. Caterpillar shares up 4. 5 we put a gold star up there as well one of the other things that were watching right now is what
When it begins lets elook at what is driving the numbers today. Millions of americans remain out of work. Could that weakness pressure lawmakers to reach a stimulus deal we will see. Negotiations are under way as we speak. The dow up some 200 points or so two thirds of a percentage with 59 minutes left in the trading week kayla. Wilf, it is great to see you on this friday afternoon coming up on the show, door dash and airbnb ipos to come next week and a big test for appetite of some names in growth tech speaking of high growth, scott cutler, we will get his take on the e competition in apparel and sneakers mike santoli has the market covered. Ylan moi is tracking the latest movements on a stimulus deal and we will dig about sboo the jobs report with Dana Peterson. Mike first to you. What are you seeing behind the charts. Almost all news translated to good news for the market in this current mood that investors are in if you look at a fiveyear chart. Decided to broaden it out here more
Join fizer pfizer you can see were just about 20 points shy of the all time high on the dow a lot of news to unpack. We got the news from moderna showing the vaccine is more than 94 effective in preventing cases of covid19. We saw details in the study showing it prevented severe cases of covid19. So that a very strong result comes, of course, after the pfizer data last week showed that its vaccine was more than 90 effective. The first two out of gate showing incredibly strong efficacy questions do remain including these preventative cases of covid19 but do the vaccines sprent infection with the virus completely we dont yet know that we also dont know because this is a brand new virus and these are brand new vaccines how long this protection will last. So those are things that are going to come and be answered in the future looking at these data so what happens next well, both of the Companies Soon are going to file with the fda for emergency use authorization. The fda will then hold wh
At a record high for the dow the s p set a record high on friday up another 30 points and the nasdaq, an underperformer last week, is indicated up by close to 60 points stocks have been on a big run. If you look at last weeks returns the dow was up just over 4 last week the s p was up just over 2 . And the nasdaq was down only by half a percent you are talking about the third week out of four that is seeing negative returns and that has been the underperformer. Really across the board a lot of strength the russell 2000 hitting a record high last week and big, big moves. Remember, its only been a week since weve heard from pfizer. That set things off especially ones underperforming as people stay home. The ten year is yielding 0. 885 . Joe, that was a wild ride last week, too, watching what happened with treasury yields. Potentially getting up to 1 but now were back where we started. All part of, i guess, reopening. The market given the backdrop i will talk about right now the market is