Shoppers are spending more during each visit during the pandemic which is good news for target. That is a bright spot in otherwise down day on wall street. Im Connell Mcshane. Welcome to after the bell. You know the numbers after the bell. We have time for the news that is happening at this hour. Fox Business Team coverage, blake burman is in washington, we have Jackie Deangelis in the new york newsroom, Ashley Webster coming up as well watching some of the new restrictions on business ahead of the holidays, well get to that in a moment, but, blake, lets start with you. Whats the latest. Reporter big news out of pfizer today, connell, 95 effective and safe that was the news out of that company as it relates to the covid19 vaccine candidate with pfizer saying they could apply to the fda for that emergency use authorization here in the coming days. Here is what pfizer said this morning about that covid19 vaccine that they are putting forth. They wrote, quote, to date the Data Monitoring
Of the vaccine and the test helping stock prices. Dow jones up about a hundred points at the open, seven for the s p and eight for the nasdaq more retailers reporting this morning and target looks good work samestore sales up 20 , another measure of the strength of Consumer Spending, just like walmart, target stock up 2 at the moment. Look at this, bitcoin crossed 18000 per coin and has backed off to 17855, about a thousand dollars or shy of its alltime high 19640. I was a skeptic, maybe its Something Else i should have bought that didnt like apple, tesla, amazon, zoom and so many more. We do have a jampacked show. New york Governor Cuomo says President Trump had nothing to do with the Rapid Development of the vaccines. You will see him say it. Boeing gets max judd approval and is now ungrounded. How about this for thanksgiving, noticing, no shouting, kp the music down so you dont have to raise your voice and my off the alcohol. New restrictions for thanksgiving is growing. Varney co.
Your portfolio. President trump has number of legal challenges concerning voter out comes in several states as he vows to fight on. Well get the latest from rnc spokeswoman, liz harrington. And ask tammy bruce how joe biden can keep the pledge of being president to all americans. All that and much more on making money. Charles stocks soaring to new highs on all major indices, news from the coronavirus from pfizer has tested to be more than 90 effective. To break down what this actually means, fox news medical contributor, also the host, author of, covid, the politics of fear and the power of science. Dr. Marc siegel. The perfect day to have you, my friend. Apparently pfizer will file for emergency approval late they are month. Assuming it is granted how long before people start to receive the vaccine . Charles, this is the power of science. This is so exciting and i think given the fact operation warp speed already contracted for 100 million doses. That they have deployment in place us
Hey, melissa, these results were so much better, and if all went really well melissa, we have 90 of efficacy with this trial and this Covid Vaccine from pfizer. This is a 44,000participant trial. The way they measure efficacy is how many cases of covid they see in the trial they want to see more cases in the placebo arm than the vaccine arm, to show that the vaccine is protective thats what they saw to the opportunity of 90 efficacy. They said they saw no serious safety concerns, and they will proceed to the end of the twomonth safety followup window before they would seek emergency use authorization. That will happen next week after that we could see them proceeding for regulatory clearance. There are still questions remains. This was just topline data, and it looks to be safe, but theres still questions how does it prevent severe disease does it prevent infection completely or just manifestation of the disease with symptoms other questions are how long did the protection last . Weve
Secretary of state well get insight into who these people are, more importantly, what they mean for you, and the country. And of course, theres more than one way to takeaway your guns. Just make them too expensive to own and to use. The biden gun tax well get reaction from liz peek on that and so much more on making money. Well so the markets open higher and a could am but nation of factors right theres of course more good news on a vaccine front from astrazeneca they received emergency approval and then the start of trading the u. S. Services pmi came in well ahead of consensus and really encouraging highlights the steepest expansion output since march of 2015 the fastest new increase in order since september of 2018 the strongest job growth since Data Collected in the series going back to october of 2009 and the strongest Business Optimism since may of 2014 and take a lack at this chart, ladies and gentlemen. It is called a super v and its all good stuff and then we might add the upt