Technology stocks. Microsoft, the big one to watch after the bell, releasing Quarterly Results any moment now. So well have live coverage of those microsoft numbers as they come out. Plus in the tech world, the ceos of facebook, google and twitter are all set to appear tomorrow on capitol hill. It is a lot of people will be watching that. In fact in the last few minutes were getting word on exactly what they plan to say. The top leaders on Silicon Valley releasing some of the remarks early. Well also talk about that. Take a quick look at oil, jumping 2 after hitting a threeweek low in yesterdays trade. The oil price hovering below 40 bucks a barrel at 39. 42. On top of all of that were one week out until the 2020 election. Before we get to any numbers i mentioned lets kick things off with blake burman live at the white house. Reporter connell, it is back to big 10 country for President Trump today as he is making three different stops in three different states. I want to give you a liv
Company says its phase 3 trial in the u. S. Found its 72 effective in preventing moderate to severe symptoms and says it will file for Emergency Authorization in the coming week, that could mean approval by the end of february. Heres whats key, the vaccine does not require Ultra Cold Temperatures for storage and Shelf Life Is Good for up to two years, huge win. The other breaking story were following, scientists warning the u. S. Is in a race against time with the new Coronavirus Variants popping up across the country and one of those strains, the South African Variant, is now officially here. Two cases have been confirmed in the state of south carolina. Even more concerning, the state departments Public Health warning says that two infected adults had no recent travel history and no connection to one another. And its raising concerns the strain may already be circulating within the community as new data indicates the vaccines we have may be less effective against this one. That said,
Burrs defense secretary saying hes been terminated. And president elect joe biden is still warning of a dark winter ahead after the u. S. Infection count passes 10000000. A cease fire is taking effect right now off to armenia and azerbaijan reached a deal to end weeks of conflict over the disputed region of nichole macau to block i mean as Prime Minister was 1st to announce the news of the agreement by a statement on his Facebook Page he described the decision as unbelievably painful but one which had to be made. Pro Armenian Forces had lost control of a major city in the going to cutback not far from the regional capital. The russian president Vladimir Putin gave more details of the cease fire. The Azerbaijan Republic in the republic of armenia will stop their current positions along the contacts line in the gorno karabakh and the corridor between nagoya karabakh and the republic of armenia Russian Peacekeeping forces will be deployed internally displaced persons and refugees are to r
Over the counting of mailin ballots continues. The Supreme Court is allowing pennsylvania and North Carolina for now to count ballots received after election day, but the high court could still hear the pennsylvania case after the election and it could decide who wins the presidey. Nc we will speak to mother jones ari berman. Then we look at big techs role in the election as Senate Republicans accuse social Media Companies of favoring democrats. But is that true . If anything,e see many sorts of Technology Platforms throughout the past four years supporting the trump agenda and a conservative agenda. Millions plunged into pandemic poverty, the senate has adjourned before passing another stimulus bill. We will look at the spike in hunger across United States. These families are basically living like on a ticking time bomb when this starts up again, how theyre going to pay their rent. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. I
Futures, big corporates with news flow in particular sap. The guidance has been disappointing for that stock so were watching implications there. But a number of themes for investors as we look at the opening signals on the benchmark, investors eyeing the u. S. Trade and whether we get any progression on stimulus this week, counting down to the u. S. Election and we have tech earnings, thats a feature of the market where were seeing a kshape on markets alsotodriving the u. S. Stock market forward well eye the earnings to see if it justifies what weve seen since the start of the pandemic weve dropped more than 1. 1 , thats a big reversal from the. 6 gained on friday you can see from the amount of red on the market its fairly deep in the negative territory on the market. Oil and gas 2. 1 lower, this is reflecting the spot prices were witnessing as we talk about coronavirus cases, weve been assessing the impact on demand for oil you can see as we go through this process, a second wave of