Thanks so much for being here tonight for one of the most contentious consequential and closely watched u. S. Elections in history thats right Democrat Joe Biden is fighting to unseat republican President Donald Trump and the world has its eyes on america tonight and well be following every twist and turn with our team of correspondents and experts and ill be keeping you up to date with all the results as they come in and this of course is an election played out with america in crisis mode the cold food pandemic is surging and theres a stark political divide and thats raising fears of unrest but turnout is set to shatter all records lets take a look now at deadline day for American Voters. This is what us to mock crissy looks like today huge lines at many polling stations in one of the worlds oldest and largest democracies from chile wisconsin in the north. Through the city that never sleeps. To tropical florida and the south voters seem to have shown up in massive numbers even during
Were live this morning across the Battle Ground states just hours left in the race for the white house. Also this morning, the nation hitting its highest single day of new covid cases, nearly 100,000. Police in new york breaking up illegal halloween parties packed with hundreds of people, many without masks. Dr. Jha joins us live. With tens of millions heading to the polls, how can you vote safely . Royal secret covid19 battle. Prince william diagnosed with coronavirus months ago. One report saying the second in line to the throne struggled to breathe. Why the palace was tightlipped until now as the uk announces their second lockdown. New tropical trouble on the move and intensifying. The 28th named storm of this record hurricane season. Where its headed next bringing possible deadly flooding. Ginger is tracking the path this morning. Goldfinger celebrating a Silver Screen legend. Bond, james bond. Tributes pouring in from around the world for sean connery. The oscar winner thrilling a
Lets get to dohm. Were watching markets for the s p 500 that have posted about a 1 gain over the last three months and for those people who are keeping track of some of the election markets statistics, its a big number. In the three months prior, some analysts and strategists note that if the market is higher in the three months before an election, its the incumbent party that wins. Well see if that trend plays out. You can see for the s p 500 in that three month span we got a 1 gain entirely because of just today. You wonder whether or not that could play into some of those associations or correlations people talk about with regard to markets and the election overall. But beyond that, there are some interesting themes developing over the course of the past week if you take a look at the outperformers and underperformers, many of them have to deal with the cyclical and value oriented Sectors Technology versus Communication Services, there is a bit of outperformance in Communication Ser
Deeply divided splitting america politically economically and culturally this is a journey through this socalled londe of opportunity. Writers filmmakers and lets all go 1st capture the current mood in the states. Our 1st stop is new york city. And new york used to be the city that never sleeps dallas before code and the pandemic seems past its peak year but the big apple is still far from being back to normal. On weekends when the weather is good. People can at least gather and central park and they were masks to keep say. Donald trump during his Election Campaign even back then few well known artists and intellectuals supported him and this hasnt changed sense although now 4 years later when people know what to expect warnings about reelecting trump us president s have grown more urgent and. Weve come to new york to meet 3 of the most renowned authors in the country to find out what they expect and worry about and. Paul auster. The beginning of the end of democracy as rehabilitate th
Good morning, im dominic chu. It is your money, your vote. Brian are s Brian Sullivan is live in grand rapids first, the dow implied higher by just around 100 and so points here the dow coming off more than 420 point gain to kick off another month after its worst week since march. The s p 500 also higher by more than a percent just yesterday. We are also watching the treasury side of the equation as well yields holding relatively steady at least for this time being around the world, a sharply higher session overnight in asia with the hang seng and kospi posting near 2 gains. You can see there on the map a very positive day generally speaking for asia. And green also on the european side of things with 2 gains for the cac in france and nearly 2 for the german dax and ftse 100. But back to the campaign trail and the future of the american presidency and congress now in the hands of us, the electorate amid record breaking early voting and key state Supreme Court ruling in texas, the candi