Pfizers chairman admits that theyre not sure if someone can transmit the virus after vaccination. And call it a box office reset, warner bros. Will release films simultaneously in theaters and streaming platform hbo max it is a seismic change, carl, in the economics for those related to the film business and well certainly be willing to and happy to take a closer look and discuss it. Yeah. Fascinating change in the economics there. But, guys, jobs numbers, the story of the morning, jim, not just the number itself and the trend it outline, but the degree to which it is going to color the debate on capitol hill today and maybe next week. I think it is enough ammo to say, look, we have to do something, there is some areas of the economy that just are cannot be sustained. Dont forget, these numbers are ahead of what will be a gigantic eviction notice that more than maybe more than 13 Million People get in january. I think this number is just enough to be able to say, lets compromise it is
Comfortably. Hawkish headlines on china and weak Economic Data both weighing on market sentiment. The dow is down 300 points yearly it was down 350 about 20 minutes ago. We have 59 minutes left in the session. Big show coming up four. A true 2020 winner, et ceteray stock is up 250 this year we will talk to the ceo Josh Silverman about the holiday crunch and whether his companys momentum can continue. And arthur blank, cofounder of home tee poe, owns the Atlanta Falcons and atlanta mls team as well lets focus first on the stories we are watching today. Mike santoli is tracking the Market Action into the close meg tirrell has a vaccine update and phil lebeau has an update on nikola, that stock down020 today. Mike santoli first to you and the markets. A mild shake of the tree. Indexes backing off. Some of the stuff that was up the most this month is down the most today seems like a little bit of trimming there are probably unbalanced portfolios there you have we are roughly capped we were
Lets break it down with mike mckee. Is a it is michael it little bit odd. On the headline, 100. 9 is lower than it was in the month of august or september, rather, when it was 101. 8. You would expect that maybe the present situation would be causing people concern because of the coming closures of some businesses as covid cases spike but the number comes in at 98. 9 at up from 104. 6, up from 98. 9. Turnabouting quite a in the way people are looking at the economy. The interesting thing here is this bemay see is reasonably good news for donald trump because if you are looking at the economy, stupid, as the old saying goes, you are looking at the economy as it is right now, and the economy as it is right now is better. The employment number is something Everyone Wants to look at in the set up to next week. Jobs number is an improvement, so those who think we are going to have a dismal jobs report next week might be in for a surprise, at least according to the underlying Consumer Sentim
Lower. Plus, scp is on track for its worst trading day in 12 years. The german Enterprise Software giant slashing revenue forecast of ongoing covid lock down for its business of course, the race for a cure Drugmaker Astrazeneca says its Coronavirus Vaccine triggers an immune response amongst older and younger adults carl david, well begin with that sap story, and asking if that is something european or something bigger especially for mega cap tech im struggling with the reasons for it very dismal outlook. Frankly, you could argue this stock is still too high at these prices which is substantially down 20 theyre talking about a cloud slow down. Can we understand that cloud has acsce accelerated every business when you upload an sap program in the cloud it does far less for you. There is someone who facilitates going from the private to the public you know something, i got to tell you, carl, this point stinks it does. I had the previous ceo on a coceo ms. Morgan and do you know three wee
So my first guess is going to be washington, d. C. Its got to be. I havent seen the list yet. Its got to be d. C. It has to. Andrew has experience. I do have experience. Ive been there for six months and ive seen more rats than my entire lifetime living in new york. You hear that, washington, d. C. . Andrew is joining us from washington, d. C. This week. Youve seen plenty of his stories covering the impeachment trial, covid19, everything coming out of the white house. Before that, you were in miami. I was. You were a florida man. I still am a florida man. But not florida man, you know. Theres a difference. You were in portland before that, so youve been making the rounds. You were also in new york. Welcome back. I love new york. Im glad to be back. Were excited to have you for the rest of the week. Lets start this half hour with the latest developments in the coronavirus pandemic. More than 219,000 american lives lost and more than 8 million confirmed cases. China is showing an economi