Between antifa and Trump Supporters on the streets of washington, d. C. What can be done to curb the growing division in america. A look at market this is morning futures pointing to a rally at start of trading up 275 points right now. On the dow industrials nasdaqup 57 and s p higher by 29. The dow the best performer last week while the tech heavy nasdaq struggled with a selloff with the dow industrials up 4 on the week and nasdaq lower by half a point. And the s p higher by 2 . Covid cases on the rise across the country mean wheel as world waits for a rollout of the vaccine. Well be talking with new york state senator brad and who is one of fact pfizer vaccinings patients his insight coming up. Plus american i think knew try bring you highlights from latest spacex launch with four american astronauts onboard mornings with maria is live right now. European markets take look like this pretty much a firmer tone s p 500 up 45 and cac up 60 and dax index higher by 69. Pretty much about ha
Tesla getting set to take off. And tesla is up 9 today. Were going to take a look at the growing musk empire. And booming sales at walmart and home depot but the stocks not getting that same boost today. Power lunch starts right now welcome once again to power lunch, im john fort boy, its hard to swim up stream in the amazon. Cvs, wall green, right aid and dorsey and zuckerberg and ceos testify in front of the senate one bright spot in the s p 500, cruise stocks as norwegian is near the high of the session for more on the market action, lets get to bob pisani. Hello, john its sort of a choppy, indeterminate day. The market cant quite decide what it wants to do today. Weve had a great run in bank and material stocks. The cyclical names have done really well recently those are on the weak side today. Tech is kind of flattish overall today here and then we had Energy Stocks and reits. So energy has been holding up very well today and so has Real Estate Investment trusts on top of that. Te
Take a hit. The covid consumer, walmart, home depot and kohls among retailers reporting earnings today. Walmart says ecommerce sales up 79 . And elon musks billions, tesla getting a spot in the s p 500. It is among the highest valued companies to ever enter the benchmark index and musk is on top to become number three, that is the third richest person in the world. Indeed, guys. Well start with the retail picture this morning, jim, youve been vocal as to the investor response on home depot and walmart. I guess thats related to the news out of amazon. Look, by the way, those stocks do tend to run up in the quarter and sell off thats nothing new a more aggressive amazon is always something we have to Pay Attention to i remember when amazon bought pill packs, the drug stores got killed i also point out that walmarts online david, thats not going to go away you can argue someone is going to argue thats the peak i would argue that amazon and walmart have taken so much share in this country,
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
There are a lot of people who disagree with Charlie Hebdo theres all this thousands of what you would call is the list is a mystic stream ists. Its very few more terrorists theres very few people who actually do deal if the Charlie Hebdo was so offensive was so horrible surely they could be thousands of people on the streets starving one another its not its a tiny tiny minority what is it about the tiny minority that distinguishes them from all the rest of us and thats why you have to look at this that the individual level when one starts it almost gives legitimacy to the others so the reason that france has raised its terrorism level is because it takes one and its kind of like a rally around the flag now were all going to go because it becomes rational you know when you think that you will get legitimacy for it. To ation in france on our website r. T. Dot com and get the latest updates by following us on twitter ill be back with more news in just about half an hour thanks for watchin