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
Workers of an annual cost of a billion dollars and thats why the stock is down. Down 1. 6 . Tesla, the stock thats going straight up and it has nothing to do with the virus. Tesla, 500 index meaning a lot of Money Managers have to buy the stock so up it goes and by the way the gain of 53 13 makes elon musk the third richest person in the world. Overall, the market is in a mild selloff mode. Dow jones closing and 29950. Its retreating a bit. S p down about 25, nasdaq a slight gain. A big tech is doing okay. We are in creeping lockdown mode and thats the problem for the markets as many states and cities imposing new restrictions as virus cases arise. Wear a mask in north dakota, utah. No Indoor Dining in california, michigan and in philadelphia, no indoor football watching parties. My opinion, thanksgiving next week, confrontation is coming. Who will enforce limits on your thanksgiving celebration . Where does president elect joe biden the stand, lockdown joe, where does he stand . Hes n
Lashing today over how their companies handled 2020 election. Heck out few hours indicating a decline as we await october retail Sales Numbers out this morning at 8 30 a. M. Dow industrials down 88, nasdaq is up 14 and s p 500 lower by 14. Record day in wall street to start the week yesterday, dow finishing at its first alltime high in 9 months boosted by the positive news on modernas phase 3 vaccine trials. At the close up 471 points, nasdaq up 95, almost 1 and s p higher by 41, better than 1 . Big day for retail earnings, walmart and kohls and home depot all reporting this morning, we will have the numbers as soon as they give hit the tape. Holidays in digital world. Zoom is helping you and your family out if youre planning on a virtual turkey day, its making a buzz, mornings with maria is live right now. Maria home depot earnings hitting the tape right now and european markets are lower, cac quarante down 9, dax index lower by 25, take a look at home depot numbers, revenue above exp
Deliver remarks on jobs and the economy, and from the Mankato Regional Airport in minnesota looking at the live pictures and then hes headed to wisconsin for another event weve got that all covered for you. Now, theres one area of the economy going full steam and thats housing. The exodus from the cities to the suburbs fueling demand for one company, so much they are actually struggling to fill thousands of open positions, even with millions of people still unemployed in this country weve got the ceo of two men and a truck, hes here on the housing hotspots and hes in the cities where people are going and there was this new forecast by the cdc, predicting that the u. S. Coronavirus death toll could reach 200,000, by september 5 but could a newly approved rapid saliva based test be a major game changer . Its pretty interesting stuff today former secretary of health and Human Service dr. Tom price is going to give his prognosis on this new test and a lot of other things within the pandemi
Things look very different than in years past. It is a Virtual Convention. Speaks come in from across the country. Former first Lady Michelle obama, senator Bernie Sanders will speak there is a republican on the list, speaking at the Democratic Convention former Ohio Governor john kasich. President trump in person will make his way to wisconsin. He will be in oshkosh trying to rally supporters ahead of the Republican National convention which begins virtually next week. The real reason we are here to speak to the voters, trying to get a pulse of the people if you will. You will hear from some of those voters in just a few moments. First our top stories with fox Business Team coverage. Blake burman is at the white house. We start with Lauren Simonetti on the markets. Lauren. Lauren connell, good to see you. The markets are closing the session out mixed. We have a new record close for the nasdaq. Apple shares, where do they end the day . They are within striking that two trillion dollar