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
Futures ahead of the opening bell. Train to oil prices under pressure this morning down 1 . Drink the univision agrees to buy copper after cracker was hulk hogan. Well have the details. Trained to simone biles wrapping up events with another gold medal. Christian taylor took the gold in mens triple jump. All the highlights from the rio games. Lauren meanwhile, 5 01. The latest breaking news in what to expect that their head. Nicole donald trump is changing his campaign leadership. Advisor Kelley Conway promoted to the role of campaign manager. Call mena for on his campaign chair. Stephen bannon, the cofounder of brave heart news comes on board as campaign ceo. Lauren tribe responded to the violence in the wackiness beach last night in thing. Listen. Law and order must be restored. The main type and set these riot are lawabiding africanamerican citizens living in this neighborhood. There is no compassion in tolerating lawless conduct for anyone. Lauren tribes at the Democratic Party haf
Thanks for joining us. Power lunch starts right now. Welcome to power lunch. Im melissa lee. Three hours to go in the trading stegs and stocks headed lower right now. S p 500 stuck in a fractional range. In fact, this could be the 37th straight session where the s p is scaled to move 1 or more in either direction. Take a look across the board just down about a quarter of a percent with the russell the only one moving to the upside right now. Few standouts to tell you about, lkq, omnicom, Stanley Black decker, whats continued to move financials up 3 in the past month, michelle. Something well definitely be watching. Im michelle carusocabrera. Heres what else is happening at this hour. Fertilizer giant is in discussions with potash, no agreements have been reached. French economy minister has resigned from the government. And a tropical depression is gaining strength in the gulf of mexico. Forecasters say the storm could be upgraded to a Tropical Storm by later today. Busy two hours comi
Kristin. That was certainly a colorful News Conference from Rudy Giuliani but it was light on facts. So much of what he said was simply not true or has already been thrown out in court and giuliani opened by making this really bold and baseless claim that a lot of this alleged inside voter fraud he is referring to came from one centralized place. He called it a nationwide conspiracy. And yet he failed to provide any hard evidence to back up that one specific claim special when it cuts to the claim o core of e democratic process. In pennsylvania Rudy Giuliani claimed fraud in philadelphia he said in court and i quote this is not a fraud case. What is he saying in public not under oath is different from what he said in court. Moving on to michigan where the Trump Campaign dropped final federal lawsuit just this morning after two republican canvassers in wayne county now say they want to rescind their votes to certify the election. Giuliani said they dropped the lawsuit because the state
The president is heading to a rally as hes been busy peddalig a new Conspiracy Theory. Ill talk with democratic congressman and our correspondents are standing by. Lets go with more on the roseanne drama. Abc calls her tweets abhor rere repug nants and innsistent with o values. This exploded within matter of hours and in less than day one of their top show s in shambles and big stars on the ropes. Muslim brotherhood and planet of the apes had a baby. Vj. Thats the tweet that sunk a racist empire. Twitter erupted. She quickly took it down and say i apologize to valerie jerritt and all americans. Im truly sorry for making a bed joke about her politics and looks but the damage was done. Sarah gilbert said the comments were abhorrent and do not reflect the beliefs of our cast and crew. Wanda sykes, i will not be returning to roseanne. Abc called it twits sayitweets abhorhent. You cant just stand on the front porch staring at your muslim neighbors prp. Since its return earlier this year the