Good monday morning. Im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt. The dow puts together the first intraday high in nine months, processing the election, putting closure, perhaps, to that but obviously the big news of the day is out of pfizer and this potential covid19 vaccine once again, well start the hour with meg hey, carl this news that pfizer and german partner biontech provided 90 efficacy in the phase three trial providing hope this is the first vaccine we have seen results from the results are limited. They just the independent committee took a look at the trial. They found 94 confirmed cases of the covid19 in the trial and they found a difference in the Placebo Group and the vaccine group. They also said they saw no serious safety concerns in the trial. Theyre going to he mass two months of safety followup which for half the people in the trial getting their second shot which will take them into the third week of november that is next week after which time they will file with the fachl
The dow industrial average, remember that apple is a dow jones stock. This loss 220 points roughly at the opening bell, that wipes out yesterdays game. Smp on the downside and nasdaq down about 1 . The loss they are because of tech stocks. The virus is also a negative with severe restrictions on travel and businesses in france, italy, germany and spain. Their resurgence has a stalled not good for us. Youre at home a record i think 882,000 new cases reported yesterday and restrictions are spreading, thats not good for this market. Four days till the election and even joe biden is picking up the pace going to three states today come i will, wisconsin, but will he answer questions about hunter maidan repacking the Supreme Court or the influence the socialist have on his campaign . Politico quoting three sources saying Elizabeth Warren wants to be and is the front runner for treasury secretary. The president goes to three states as well, michigan, wisconsin and minnesota as he frames the e
Liz let me be clear, hes right, the fed moves the markets. Stocks thank you, charles are stinking, are sinking think kind of are stinking [laughter] as big tech selling of apple, amazon, facebook offsets j js vaccine, theyre not able to lift up this market. The dow looking at its fourth losing day in five. We are down 465 points, low of the session down 475 or so, so were just about there. S p is losing 66, the nasdaq hitting a new correction low, down 291 points. The nations top pandemic fighters from the fda to the cdc and more testifying on capitol hill just one day after american depths from the coronavirus deaths from the coronavirus trooped 200,000 topped 200,000. Well take you to d. C. For all the drama. Meanwhile, one tech company that helps americans get cheaper Prescription Drugs making its debut on wall street just hours ago. The coceo of good rx is here for his instant to his stocks day one pop and what he can promise, he says, without any help from washington d. C. And a p
It today here is how things look now. We are in the green. Look at the small cap stocks the russell 2000 we are still coming off four down weeks for stocks. A pretty louse si month. Now, the s p 500 is on pace for its best two day gain since all the way back in june did you follow that kate moore w were in a four week down street were on our best two day stretch since back in june bp the volatile till has really grown. What are you expecting ahead im told theres an election in 36 days. Is it just 36 days . It feels like its going to be any moment at this point we have this down market there is will the of consolidation and profit taking, rotation in terms of participation over the last couple of weeks. The big point and message is tlauls v theres always volatility before an election. In a year like this where we have so many cross currents between the virus. Questions around Economic Activity relationships with other countries. Theres so much for an investor whether it needs to be reta
Area . Yeah, we have a couple weather systems moving by tha i clearing. Were still looking at the storm system approaching from the north and some tropical moisture moving in to our south from much of Central California and over to the sierra. Were watching that a little bit closer to home starting out with clouds this morning. This is helping to keep the smoke clear. Things will change this weekend. More on that coming up in just a few minutes. Mike, how is it looking for the Early Morning commuters . Well, kari, we have what weve had all week, slowing on the nimitz, northbound 880 to 29th. Sometimes its the southbound side. What im more concerned about is a crash thats happened over the last 45 minutes, south 880 and dakota a crash near the transition on southbound 880 from the city streets and no slowing. Well check that but no major injuries reported yet. Back to you. Thank you very much. New overnight firefighters stilt capital expressway near san jose. You can see the fire theyre