While in america counting has resumed in key states to decide whos the next possum in the white house. Now 2 days on from the election america still doesnt know who will be handed the keys to the white house and everything hangs on the key swing states that are yet to declare so at the moment things are looking good for democrats joe biden he has the backing of 264. 00 electors thats if you include arizona which many say is too early to call if it is his though it means he needs just 6 more to reach that magic number of 270 for victory donald trump by comparison carney only has 214 well lets look at the poll for ways to power for the count its future by securing as i said a majority right here in nevada would haunt him 6 electors which is enough to put him in the white house for 4 more years of donald trump. So the incumbent president would have to win only 5 states where the result is a clear these are the ones still in gray and trump is currently ahead in 4 of them including in nevad
Down 1. 6 yesterday, off of session lows. The dow industrials down 650 650 points, that was 2 and a quarter percent lower at 4 00 on wall street. Investors rattled over no progress on stimulus and a rise in covid cases. Its a big day for earnings, dow components merck, 3m. Caterpillar all reporting quarterly numbers this morning. We will get a snapshot of the airlines when jetblue reports and a look at big pharma when pfizer reports. The road to the white house, we hit the one week to go mark, americans are headed th to the polls in seven short days. President trump and joe biden begin the final push before election day. Stimulus negotiations losing momentum, time is running out for lawmakers to make a deal before november 3rd. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she remains opt my particular over talks optimistic over talks. Congressman tom reed told me yesterday if we dont have a deal by election day, we may not have one until february. Todays the day, my new book, the cost, trump, china
For an earnings season that is beginning to unfold. Later, the rush is on as Apple Unveils its new 5g enabled iphone are the stars now aligned for a super cycle that wall street has been waiting for for apple power lunch starts right now stimulus negotiations hitting a wall once again as the two sides are stuck on whether to do one big bill or several smaller ones elon has the latest for us there will be no relief before the election. We knew this in our guts, we knew it by looking at the calendar and today treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin acknowledged it publicly during a speech for the milken institute. Getting something done before the election and executing on that would be difficult just given where we are in the level of details were going to try to continue to work through these issues reporter now, this is dispute the fact that the senate will still go through the exercise of voting on a 500 billion package of targeted relief next week thats much less than what democrats are a
Directer ray gina haspel on the hook. They may be the first to go after the election. Hear what i asked house chief of staff and how mark meadows answered the question. Decline at start of trading. Dow industrialing down 273 points. Nasdaq down 100 rand s p lower by 33. This all 3 majors, this after 3 major indices posted losses last week over stimulus cases and rise in covid cases. As you can see market town this morning. Plan nor arizona and discussion over fracking, all coming up. Special day, join us from 8 00 a. M. Hour where we will go with fox friends on Sister Network and i will preview my books which will be heading bookstores tomorrow. Hope you will join us. Dont miss a moment of it. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria your intent markets this morning are lower, take a look, italy and france among the countries imposing new lockdown orders over surge of coronavirus cases. Cac quarante down 32 and dax index in germany lower by 282 points, better than 2 lower right no.
Points, bucking an otherwise weak trend. The dow and s p 500 finishing near session lows yesterday. We are counting down to novembe. We are six days away from the big vote before americans he hed to the polls. President trump and joe biden in the final stretch of their respective campaigns this morning. The president is headed to arizona today. The bidens in the hot speat as a former business associate of hunter biden speaks out. Hear from congressman guy reschenthaler this morning, tom fiten and ron johnson about the bombshell report and its impact. Earnings season rolling on this morning. Heavy hitters reporting include boeing, general lek particular, mastercard and General Electric and anthem. Well bring you the numbers. Mark zuckerberg and jack dorsey are set to testify on liability over their sites content. Roger wicker is here, he will lead the hearing today. The cost is out, my new book with James Freeman, we will take an exclusive peak into a chapter on taxes and regulation. We