Years. That is the best month of the year, im connell mcshane. This is the closing bell. Time for news of the hour. Jackie deangelis in new york, blake burman in white house, Hillary Vaughn with the president elect in delaware and Edward Lawrence in washington with the latest on the covid19 relief deal. A lot of moving parts well get into. The market is back in rally mode. Good afternoon, jackie. Reporter good afternoon, connell. Well talk about the records we set today with the s p 500 and also the nasdaq. Look at the gains there we beat what we were expecting handily. You only needed 16 points on the s p and only needed seven on the nasdaq. This was a strong broad based rally today what is interesting big tech continues to gain on this momentum and continues to go higher from there. Facebook, apples, amazon, microsofts of the world are continuing to climb up. That is something you expect to hear. Again it wasnt just tech, it was broadbased. Look at the dow winners you can see we have
Smoke in the sky and in the air too. The airquality is bad enough that they have issued another spare the air day. Welcome to the 9. Happy friday to you. I think i said it twice. Can you tell im happy of it being friday . Queen bay, today, beyoncc turning 39 years old. To celebrate she plans on spending the day with her loved ones, husband jayz, and her three children. Blue ivy, now eight years old and her 3yearold twins. The family is expected to be in the hamptons where they have been spotted over the past few weeks. So indeed, happy birthday to beyoncc. Gasia, certain songs bring up a certain mood, happy or as i said, when i play Single Ladies earlier, it feels like being at a wedding because it was very popular there. Right. I thought of that old, that snl, that just endeavor like sketcher he is something. But i have to say what i really admire about beyoncc is as she gets older, im old enough to be her mother, she thinks of others on her own birthday. She donated 1 million to blac
Starts. That means demand up for Mortgage Applications, supply going up in the future. That follows a remarkable improvement in the outlook for home builders. They are much more optimistic. The housing rebound would give the overall economy a real boost just when it really needs it. Now lets get to the market. Again, look at this. We are going up again, not much, going up at least at the opening bell. The rally continues. The dow up maybe 70. S p, maybe 10. Nasdaq, better gain, up nearly a half percentage point. Thats a 46point gain for the nasdaq. Okay. The fed is printing money. Theres a new stimulus plan in the works. Retail sales saw a huge increase, a positive News Development on virus treatment plus real estate and you add it all up, youve got a continuing stock market rally. Weve got a big show for you today. The president s reelection hangs on the economy which is coming back strong. So why is he trailing joe biden in the polls . We will address that. Social distancing is the b
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Eastern on cspans q a. The numbers courtesy of Johns Hopkins university. Million cases of coronavirus, and the global death toll now in excess of 312000 in 188 countries and regions. Fromorter joining us wellington, new zealand. Good sunday evening to you, where you are at this morning. Thank you for joining us. Guest thank you for having me. Host can you give us a sense of what has happened in new zealand . I know the country was quick to respond and quick to reopen. Guest thats right. No country can say conclusively that they have [inaudible] thewe have contained Community Transmission of the virus. In march, when they realized there was a spread, there was a plan to lock down the country and new zealand was put into a onemonth strict lockdown. Some of the toughest measures globally, really, people locked in their homes for a month. It is a few factors, basically. It was decisive leadership by the Prime Minister, the geographic advantage new zealand has of being one of the southernmo