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
Have Edward Lawrence and in washington. Reporter they are scheduled to talk about right now. They usually talk about an hour on these phone calls. There is very slim chance of getting a relief package to help americans by election day. President donald trump said this morning it is political. And House Speaker nancy pelosi does not want to help the economy because that would help the president win. His economic advisors say the House Speaker packed her package with a lot of stuff unrelated to the coronavirus. There is a number of political and idealogical points in that have nothing to do with covid and we dont want to go that direction. If it is targeted right, absolutely. It is not it is not going to work. Reporter even if a deal could be reached the president said he would go above 2. 2 trillion, still reaching republican senators for their vote might be a challenge. The president says he would lean on Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell to get the votes. It might be a hard sell
Melissa francis. Hey, connell. Connell im connell mcshane. Hey, melissa, we start instead of focusing on markets and wall street and with blake burman as we come out of that announcement at the white house. He is there live and, you know, it was interesting, blake, because the president was asked right off the bat as we were joining it whether he misled the public and essentially he said yes, i did but it was, as melissa points out in his view to prevent panic. Take it from there. Reporter 18 different interviews President Trump gave on the record taped to bob woodward. Absolutely no dispute what was said on the tapes. President said it. Some have been published. Well get to see and hear potentially more of it in coming days as Bob Woodwards book is soon to be released. In one of those interviews on march 19th, is talking to bob woodward about the preeminent issue of that issue at that time, covid19 and everything going on then. The president in that interview acknowledged he was purpo
Mcshane. Didnt quite get there on the s p. Were live from joe bidens hometown. Scranton, pennsylvania. Ahead of the presumptive nominees speech tonight at the Democratic National convention. I spent a lot of the day speaking to owners and Business Leaders in the area. You will hear a lot of that throughout the hour. First the top stories. Fox Team Business could have with gerri willis keeping an eye on markets blake burman at the white house as usual gerri, we start with you. What a difference in the markets and what a difference the a day makes. They are shrugging off recovery concerns. The dow powering ahead. The dow on pace to snap a threeday losing streak. It did just that. S p up three of the last four sessions. Nasdaq was the star here. You remember back in march we were under 7,000 . Closing at 11,264 to be exact. Apple, guess what, they have the two trillion dollar crown. That is new market cap for apple. Shares hitting alltime high. Unbelievable at 2,012,000,000,000. Apple is
Are still 34 up from the lows we saw three months ago. Remember nasdaq closed at record high above 10,000. That milestone just yesterday. Fox Business Team coverage, blake burman with the latest from the president. Well kick it off with Lauren Simonetti on todays selloff. Lauren . Lauren melissa it spared almost no one today. Investors are still reacting to the federal reserves cautionary tone about the recovery yesterday, along with the cautionary tone from the pandemic itself as more states report more coronavirus cases. That is raising fears of that second wave of infections as the economy struggles to recover. Another 1 1 2 million americans filed for Unemployment Benefits last week. Number have fueled, received aid for two weeks stands at 21 million. Stocks that have outperformed as the country reopens are the ones getting hurt the most today, like travel shares. Look at some travel names. Many of them have doubled sentence their lows in midmarch. So they still have more selling p