And the u. S. Adding two Key Chinese Companies to its defense black list o and everybody just chill, the ceo of warner media down playing news that sent Movie Theater stocks cratering yesterday it is friday, december 4, and this is worldwide exchange. Jolene, jolene, please dont take my man good afternoon, and welcome from wherever in the world that you may be watching. Happy friday, folks. We made it lets jump right into the markets and your money because friday futures where looking pretty good. Dow futures are up 113 points. Up once again for the week the nasdaq 100 higher by nearly 2 to kick off the month of december technology back in command and this could be the number of the day. 47 no, that is not the number of days that were in march this year, that is how many times the nasdaq 100 has hit a record high this year and well see if we can make it a steady 48. For the dow, boeing has been the star rising 6 again yesterday and accounting for pretty much all the dows gains. This af
Welcome to our special 2020 election coverage. It is so nice to stay up altogether. I think the world is really riveted by what is happening with the vote counting in u. S. I am francine lacqua. Tom keene in new york. Interesting to look at market movement. The world is watching this razor thin election, just trying to understand why it is taking so long in certain counties, and of course trump to find out what happens in the senate race and what happens with the president. Tom its going to be extraordinary this friday and the uncertainty of where we are friday afternoon, where we are into the weekend. One thing that is very evident as we edged towards recounts, which will move us nicely from november and even into december. One telling statistic, the sum right now of the five states, forget about alaska, the five state disparity between these 3,919 votes out5 of 150 million that have been made. Francine we are talking about razor thin changes. The latest electoral vote count 64, the m
Commodities having a positive session the far. Astrazeneca stock is actually down today. The s p is up i 014 . It is a monday. We get vaccine news. Generally it is taken quite well. Cyclicals have a bigger day. That seems to be the narrative that is establishing itself. We do have a euro that has weakened. The manufacturing pmi data out of the united states, and i know the ism is more important in terms of what people look at, but nevertheless, the manufacturing data was strong, and as a result, the dollar went up. It does seem to be something of a consensus now that the u. S. Is simply a few weeks behind europe. You only have to look at what is happening with the eurozone data today to get a sense of how far pmis can fall. Highs,off our earlier off by 0. 2 percent. Boris johnson is currently talking about covid. We are also possibly making some progress when it comes to the brexit story. Certainly today, the big driver is definitely that news on astrazeneca. Alix Boris Johnson saying
Sparked by a regulatory crackdown. Tencent earnings are out later today. Kongs of hong prodemocracy lawmakers resign as beijing tightens control. Carrie lam supports banning those not deemed sufficiently patriotic. Lets look at how things are shaping up when it comes to the start of the session. It continues to get some of that rebounding onring concerns might want to stick to. Rade could berecovery somewhat stop start. It did not move on rates and did at stimulus and effectively pushed back expectation for the timing of relative rates aired the kiwi market not pricing that in all of 2021. The nikkeis little bit negative but the top x are wiping out all of its losses for the ear and looking like that momentum could be sustained. Take a look at futures up about s p hittingsaw the the 10 week i. High. Prodemocracy lawmakers in hong kong are set to resign en masse after beijing passed a to ban politicians not sufficiently stock. I would not say that for members remaining in a Legislative
Expressed interest and are considering participating and then we certainly have, you know, many managers who are engaging with Portfolio Companies around climate risk but perhaps not formally through that initiative. Okay. And then my other concern is, we talked about diversity and i like what youve done in terms of the work around that. Do we use that same [indiscernible] in terms of rps and other things, do we really apply the sfers criteria for the type of diversity were looking for across the board, including [indiscernible] and other sectors . I cant fully comment on that. I guess what i can say is, you know, there is proposition 209 in place in california i know. Thats why i i know. Up to a vote, thats in november. But we do not i want to make clear that we do not ask about diversity characteristics when we send out an rfp or enter a new relationship or a new contract with an external party. Were wanting to be not running afoul of distortion . The board is engaging, we do request