Fox Business Team coverage with berm blake burman in washington and Edward Lawrence on the latest visit to north carolina. Reporter he have went to the fuji film biosciences plant in north carolina. The health and Human Services department, 265 million deal, side deal with fuji film for another plant in texas to ramp up production of the vaccine there. Fuji film has done a deal with novavax, specifically for the phase three trial. Theyre going to provide all of the clinical needs for that trial, it is part of the 1. 6 billion that federal government gave novavax for this. The federal government saying, vaccine production are taking place at the same time, and that is saving time. Not only is operation warp speed accelerating the development of a vaccine, were also directing a colossal industrial mobilization to insure its rapid delivery. Nothing has happened like this since the end of world war ii. Reporter novavax never delivered a vaccine to the market but showed enough promise to be
Investors are increasingly pinning their hopes to a virus recovery on the vaccine so modernas news is helping the market this monday morning. And its own stock, of course. The dow industrials, probably going to go up a few points, maybe 70. S p up about 12. The nasdaq, up 85 points. Green this monday morning. Next headline, gold. The price is now at an alltime high, closing in on 2,000 an ounce. A weak dollar plus the fear of a postvirus bout of inflation, plus the u. S. china escalation, all pushing the price to, what, 1956 per ounce as of right now. Were expecting the republicans to detail their trillion dollar stimulus plan perhaps today. 1200 checks, Liability Protection for business extended but reduced emergency unemployment bonuses. Larry kudlow on that later on todays program right here. Now, look at big tech. Top executives from four of them virtually testify to Congress Later this week. This is important. What are we going to do with the crown jewels of americas business . Ta
Nasdaq futures higher by 310 after even worse than expected jobs number led to selloff on friday. We showed you the numbers friday, dow, nasdaq and s p 500 in the red for the week. Take a look. Markets were down 2 overall on each of the major indices on the week. Oil prices this morning falling after the opec meeting which was to include russia was actually delayed. It was supposed to be a Virtual Meeting happening. It was scheduled to take place today. We are waiting on any news in terms of where the meeting stands with crude at 27. 40 a barrel. Later this Morning Energy secretary dan briet will join me and take on war between saudi arabia and russia. Uk Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been hospitalized due to coronavirus, we will get the latest on Prime Minister johnson coming up this morning. We are answering your financial questions this morning. Later what you need to know about your 401 k during this crisis. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria lets check Global Markets
Billions of dollars of rescue loans are now flowing to americas Small Businesses but what about the hundreds of millions of americans who are not Small Business owners . They are waiting on promised checks. How long will it take for the irs to print them . The man who would know, mark everson. The 46th commissioner of the irs joins us in a fox business exclusive. We have a lot of questions to ask him for you. As the race for a cure frantically continues, jacob glanfield, star scientist of pandemic is back to share a breakthrough first on fox business. Its breaking news on his therapy to stop covid19 in its tracks. You will be the first to hear it. As people around the globe gear up to work from home, computer and Equipment Sales numbers are going absolutely through the roof. We are going to talk to the micron ceo about outfitting all those products with his semiconductors. The rare move Warren Buffett just made thats sending a warning to anyone thinking about buying airline stocks. Les
York have been discharged. Meantime, italy seeing its lowest number of deaths in more than two weeks and that is helping the market this morning. A strong rally in store as investors begin this holiday shortened week with some optimism. As you can see, the futures up, the dow up 788 points, the nasdaq and s p all well above 3 . It is a different story, though, for oil. Even with hopes of a deal between the russians and saudis, we still have a glut of oil because, well, no one is using it. Oil down, as you can see, down nearly 5 at 26. 94. Meanwhile, questions begin over whether to reopen the economy, when exactly. That will be a political decision as well as a medical one. And President Trump warming to the idea of a second task force whose job would be reopening the economy. All of this while the need and scope of a fourth stimulus package is also being discussed. Hello, everyone. Im Ashley Webster in today for stuart. We begin with your money. Joining us now, economist john lonski. J