Of homes destroyed, hurricane iotas trail of destruction. We sold all of our turkeys in two hours. Plus, downsizing thanksgiving, the demand for small turkeys and the extreme measures farmers took to deliver. Live from cnbc global headquarters, the facts, the truth, the news with Shepard Smith. Good evening, we have new covid19 reporting on two fronts, one, more Covid Patients are dying, a doctor raising a red flag about Vaccine Distribution his point, rampant covid spread will make getting the vaccine administered very difficult. That from dr. Ashish ja, who will join us live shortly. The death rate is rising, Public Health officials call it alarming, 2,015 people died yesterday from covid, the day before, it was 1848, the day before that, 1,707 rapid alarming death rate. And look at this, the third week of july, right at the peak of the second wave, 863 people died on average per day this third week of november with cases still rising, an average of 1,335 people die on an average per
Of homes destroyed, hurricane iotas trail of destruction. We sold all of our turkeys in two hours. Plus, downsizing thanksgiving, the demand for small turkeys and the extreme measures farmers took to deliver. Live from cnbc global headquarters, the facts, the truth, the news with Shepard Smith. Good evening, we have new covid19 reporting on two fronts, one, more Covid Patients are dying, a doctor raising a red flag about Vaccine Distribution his point, rampant covid spread will make getting the vaccine administered very difficult. That from dr. Ashish ja, who will join us live shortly. The death rate is rising, Public Health officials call it alarming, 2,015 people died yesterday from covid, the day before, it was 1848, the day before that, 1,707 rapid alarming death rate. And look at this, the third week of july, right at the peak of the second wave, 863 people died on average per day this third week of november with cases still rising, an average of 1,335 people die on an average per
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,
But after the huge moves we have seen related to some of the vaccine news of late, this is a relatively quiet session. If you look at the headlines as well, the mnuchin and powell spat doesnt seem to have caused much aggravation during the market session thus far. Seeing weakness in the turkish lira today, but after that big move we saw yesterday by the work of central bank and the shift higher in the lira, people may be fading that move a little bit on some expectation that maybe erdogan will not stick with his recent decision to maybe go to more mainstream economics. Alix lets get to our top story, governments rushing to issue vaccine approval. The modernas that and Pfizer Biontech vaccines could be approved by december. If all proceeds with no problems, the conditional marketing authorization for biontech and mentor in a could happen as early as the second half of december 2020. Alix joining us now is sam fazeli. I love how she kind of couched it and said if. What are the options in
Because the s p 500 is down a little bit more than it had been , down poured 4 . Earlier it had been down. 1 . Perhaps a reason for caution overall to think maybe the difficulties around the nearterm may continue to move ahead. If we look at havens on the week, we have the yen climate against the dollar and bonds higher. Some reason for caution, but small moves. David one piece of news overnight. Late yesterday we heard Steven Mnuchin had sent a letter to his friend jay powell saying please give us back the money we gave you for the emergency Lending Programs. He probably did not like jay powell do not like that much. Did the markets like that . Abigail we have not seen much of reaction. Bonds are lower which means yields are higher. What is interesting is we do have a reaction for the financials. The financials typically would climb on yields going higher, but they are not. There i be uncertainty around this bat and what it means. The lifeblood of this rally coming out of the march lo