Jimmy li will join me this hour in this exclusive interview. Markets on the upswing to begin futures. Take a look at dow industrials 344 points. Nasdaq up 109. Thats almost 1 . S p higher by 9 points. The dow posting best month since 1987 with gain of almost 12 , other averages also higher by 12 and 11 all this as we await key testimony from federal jay powell and jimmy mnuchin today and unused covid relief funding. Return to high seas, we are taking you on a port on how they are getting ready. Another missing monolith moved. Making a buzz this morning. Mornings with maria live right now. Maria all right, european markets meanwhile look like this as rally is underway on wall street. European markets higher across the board. Ftse up 123 points. Almost 2 , cac quarante up 62 and dax index up 135. British factories reporting fastest growth in 3 years. Purchasing Managers Index rising to 55. 6 in the month of november. In asia overnight green across the board. Chinas manufacturing pmi54. 9
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Sally hubbard thank you for coming on to discuss monopolies suck it is timely because the issue you write about in the book with us economy and the impact on workers and citizens is a hot topic at the moment with policymaking right now and it could play a big and the Incoming Biden Administration so i thought we should look at the big picture you lay out in the book when people hear the title no one likes monopolies are dealing with monopolies but really this book is about a bigger issue that the economy people may not fully understand. s so can you set the scene and describe what you see happening . Thank you for taking the time to talk out the book in cspan2 have me talk about it as well. We all knowonopolies suck. Thats not a surprise to anyone but what has been happening the last several decades is t economy is getting highly concentrated with consolidation that leads to every major sectoof the economy. We hear about whether techr food in the industry all have monopoly problems tal
He is expected as a virus numbers continue to spike around the nation to give an update on operation warp speed and talk about new developments in the race for covid19 vaccine. At the close you look at the numbers, the vaccine helps as well with upbeat corporate profit a rally not far away from a record high, it was flirting with the record, needed to be 470 but lost a little steam in the final minutes of trading, a strong day, the s p that is a recordsetting, closing up by 48point, as it settled in what appears to be the 23rd record close of the year for the s p 500 and we want to monitor the smallcap stocks today and the russell 2000, the russell closing in record territory what is significant for the smaller stocks, the first time in more than two years we have seen a wrestled record, the s p up in the second straight week, adding more than a thousand points. We canoes and big tech brought the nasdaq into the red, those are your numbers as we come to you on a friday, im connell mcsh
You for coming on to discuss monopolies suck. Its a very timely book because the issues you write about in the book, the power of dominant companies in the u. S. Economy and the impact on workers and consumers and citizens is really a very hot topic in economics and policy making right now. And we will see but could play a big role in the incoming Biden Administration. So i thought we should begin with sort of the big picture about, that you lay out in the book. I think when people hear the title they might say of course, no one likes monopolies, no one likes dealing with monopolies. The religious book is about a bigger issue. You are warning about a warring trends across the economy that i think many people may not fully understand. I think you could maybe first set the scene for us and describe what you see happening. Guest first, thank you so much for taking the time to talk to me today about this book, and thank you to cspan for having here to talk about it as well. We all know mon