Steve scalise, nancy nancy maces Jeff Van Drew and louisiana senator, john kennedy. Futures starting on a mixed note. The dow industrials are down 120 points, the s p is also weaker by 3 and a quarter but the nasdaq is up a little bit of a rotation going on this morning, back into technology. The nasdaq up 50 o 50 points. This follows a mixed performance yesterday, investors rotating into the tech sector. Were standing by for key speeches from Federal Reserve officials later today. Well take a look at market moving words on rates and the economy. Pfizer and biontech 90 effectiveness report helping drive markets. What challenges do we expect before its rolled out of. Ill speak with the companys founder and ceo of biontech later this hour. Then, cruising into the future, one state is anticipating a future filled with flying cars and its making a buzz this morning. Mornings with maria is live right now. I just cant get you out of my head. Boy, your loving is all i think about. I just cant
Good wednesday morning welcome to squawk alley. Im Caro Quintanilla with jon fortt. Deirdre is with us for the hour. Nasdaq is trying to come back after a couple of days of losses as we turn our attention once again to covid levels in the United States. Were going to start the hour, though, with alibaba, a big drop for the stock despite these new sales records on this singles day. Hi, eunice hey, carl live streamers in china are wrapping up whats been a very long day pitching to Chinese Consumers and it seems as though the efforts have paid off. For alibaba, the value of the orders that crossed the site have just come in at just shy of a 500 billion, about 75 billion u. S. Dollars these numbers cap an extended 11day campaign thats a little different this time around not the usual 24hour singles day shopping extravaganza. There were some interesting trends that we saw that were generally pandemic related, where consumers were looking to buy goods that they probably would be buying if th
And friday really in the midst of it as winds begin to pick up. I mean theres one telltale sign of the winds right there is why are your Center Towers shot waving a bit back and forth and what is otherwise a really beautiful view. Fire weather with red flag warnings in effect now all the way through friday at 11 00am for upper elevations of the Santa Cruz Mountains nearly all of the east bay once you head into the east bay mountains in the inland valleys and then across the north bay to winds, especially in the north bay going to be gusting into a 50 mile per hour range at times. Winds already picked up compared to earlier this morning atlas peak vacaville, petaluma among some breezy spots winds will gradually increase on into the afternoon today you see that areas like vacaville in petaluma as well as down into the south bay at the tonight into tomorrow morning will be the breezy us tough conditions. This is thursday morning at 04 45am right here likely before youre getting up youll h
Let up in the fighting between armenia and azerbaijan over the disputed territory of nagornokarabakh the 2 countries project calls for peace talks as the conflict threatens to escalate into all out war. Im rebecca richs welcome to the program there was no holding back here u. S. President donald trump and his democratic challenger joe biden went on the attack in a chaotic 1st televised debate Moderator Chris Wallace struggled at times to control the discussion as the candidates repeatedly interjected and talked over each other the debate topics ranged from the coronavirus to the economy Race Relations and health care but the answers often devolved into angry exchanges and personal insults would use the words more. So you said you went to delaware state but you forgot the name of your college you dont go to delaware state you graduated either the lowest or almost the lowest in your class dont ever use the word smart with me dont ever use that word or give me that because you know what t
On the 4th day they were taken to a car wash near the consulate we obtained these images from inside the car wash showing the 2 vehicles being carefully cleaned turkish investigators believe the dismembered body was transported from the consulate to the consuls house in the most a. Gruesome details began emerging in media reports on the 9th and 10th of october in the us the Washington Post published the c. C. T. V. Video of jamal entering the consulate at 1 pm on tuesday the 2nd of october on the 10th of october the b. B. C. Reported that turkish media had pictures and names of the men they said were members of the assassination sport the New York Times also ran the story reporting that he had been dismembered with the bones or 2 hours after his death and that the orders to assassinate him had been issued from the highest levels of the saudi royal court. The hit men said that they were tourists but tourists dont normally go to the consulate for a few hours and then return to the airpor