Another 8 today. Facebook, twitter ceos appearing on capitol hill. Mark zuckerberg and jack dorsey were on the hot seat over censorship concerns. Well have the highlights from their testimony in just a few moments. Im connell mcshane. Welcome, everybody, to after the bell. It us great to have you with us. Time now for the news happening at this hour. Fox Business Team coverage. We have blake burman today in washington, susan li and Jackie Deangelis both in new york an gerri willis coming up. She is watching the retail numbers. Blake, lets start with you, any update from washington on the stimulus talks with virus numbers continuing to spike . Potentially, connell, when you look especially down the road, december 11th. Why . Lawmakers need to come together to pass a spending bill so there is not a government shutdown. That is significant in its own right. Why is that also important . Because there is now starting to be some talk in washington about whether or not lawmakers could also ad
Week and its not just the dow, this is the best week for the other two major averages as well in seven months. Now to the election of what we know as we come to you at 4 00 oclock in the afternoon on friday, we still cannot call the president ial race and four key battleground states, pennsylvania where we are is one of them, were watching nevada, georgia, north carolina, uc alaska is still not called but that is suspected to stand up in the president s call, if the other for we are watching, pennsylvania, the big headline from the state, former Vice President joe biden taken the lead earlier today as a mailin both cumin, he is up by more than 14000 votes, the same thing happened overnight in georgia, as we look at george of the biden lead has been smaller but he has taken the lead by 1500 votes. We will follow with throughout this hour as we have you covered on all fronts, we have fox Business Team coverage, jacqui thJackie Deangelis, hillary vaun with abiding campaign in delhi were p
Prime time tonight. There is speculation he may claim the title of commander in chief. We shall see. But reports out of the Trump Campaign are that the president will not concede until recounts are completed in states ranging from pennsylvania, where votes are still being counted at this moment, to a couple of others that we have just showed on our screen. Our fox Business Reporters are standing by live in the crucial areas with the latest developments. Pennsylvania, arizona and georgia. Meanwhile, as team trump yells election fraud, there is no talk of one thing. Foreign hacking. We have got the ceo of the company that state and local governments turned to for keeping their Ballot Systems safe. Matthew principles is he mathew prince is here on that. We wrap up the strongest week in seven months. The october jobs report, we will show you that, big gains but also signs the Pandemic Recovery may be slightly slowing. After a big runup this week, the Dow Jones Industrials down 116, less th
Well watch that very closely. Were all over the country right now as these counts go on and on. In the case of georgia, talk of a recount. Hillary vaughn is in wilmington, delaware, where the former Vice President is due to saw something to say something, and jeff flock in milwaukee, wisconsin. Of course, the state has already been called further former Vice President , but for the former Vice President , but the trump folks are saying not so fast. To Hillary Vaughn first, two states closely statute newsed right now scrutinized right now. Reporter sources telling fox news the president does not plan to concede at the moment, but he is planning on calling for a i recount in tight races like in georgia and also planning on battling it out in the courts in states like nevada where the Campaign Just filed a lawsuit late last night in clark county and wants a hearing in front of a judge by 5 p. M. Today. In georgia just over 1500 votes separating the two candidates, making the case clear fo
The nasdaq holds in the green up by a quarter of 1 for the week and all week long stimulus uncertainty has been hanging over this market and on that point the president elect joe biden is meeting this afternoon, nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer, we will have more on that in the other meeting that were going to watch very closely this hour, President Trump has invited a group of state legislators from michigan into the white house. I am connell mcshane, welcomed after the bell we have a lot going on in his time to get straight to the news happening at this hour. Lauren simonetti, blake burman and Hillary Bonner standing by to cover the news, we start with you lauren on the latest figures on the virus, what are we seeing . Their moving in the wrong direction, the grid numbers coast to coast, new u. S. Pieces topping 100,000 for 17 days in a row and over the past week the u. S. Is averaging 166,000, new cases a day, this is happening right before the holidays with families gathered together