And lockdown and new details to halt the ipo by the ant group and what stocks are seeing big time buying by their insiders well bring them to you, one big biotech you need to hear about it is friday the 13th, but nothing to be afraid of. This is Worldwide Exchange right here on cnbc i dont care if monday is blue, tuesday is great and wednesday too, thursday i dont care about happy friday and welcome from wherever in the world you may be watching. Im broo im Brian Sullivan thanks for joining us. Here is how your money and markets look right now stock futures are once again in the green across the board dow futures up 224, nasdaq up 105. The indexes did fall a bit yesterday, but all on pace for a very solid week and month. The russell 2000 up a stunning 11 . So far november, you dow up 10 and even the nasdaq that has been hit a bit hard is actually up 7 this month coming into this morning the real star though continues to be bitcoin. It is above 16,000 now and up as much as 20 just in th
California joins texas reaching one million infections. Picking a statement, President Trump bands investments and firms controlled by chinas military as u. S. Election Officials Say the vote was the most secure in american history. Welcome to the program, happy friday morning. Under one hour until the start of the cash equity trading session in europe. We have a mixed picture in futures. European futures looked negative. Yesterday u. S. And european stocks dropped around concern to the extent we may see new lockdown measures in the United States. We have a futures picture where europe is weaker, wanting to play catchup with latterday losses in the United States. U. S. Futures. 2 the upside. U. S. Futures point two the upside. Nasdaq futures are treated like havens during the coronavirus. Lets look where we are across the broader assets, weakness in china. President trump in the last few months of his presidency, focusing on the things he can still act on. China mobile and telecom fall
There is the thenwhat later in the week that will be interesting. Francine right. Depending on whether it is a contested election, that is what i keep hearing on the markets, that if it is contested we could see a lot of volatility in all sorts of asset classes. And of course, there is a bit of news on brexit, and coupled with news on restrictions in the u. K. Economy, it is giving us more neutral pound going forward. Lets get to first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika good morning. The president ial campaign is in its final full day. If there is of polls show joe biden leading President Trump nationally and in battleground states. Some of those states remain extremely close. Candidates will Campaign Today in pennsylvania. The state is vital bidens chances, and it could become almost a mustwin state for the president as well. The white house slammed Infectious Diseases chief Anthony Fauci after he ramped up criticism of the way the coronavirus pandemic was handled. He told the Washin
During demonstrations biden and trump support just trade calls to count every ballot and protect the vote. Plus kosovos president steps down to face charges for war crimes over his alleged role in the countrys conflict. Its a 100 hours g. M. T. 8 pm on the u. S. East coast 2 days after election day Donald Trumps lead has been falling into key states as mail ballots are counted raising joe bidens hopes of clinching the presidency. Lets take a look at georgia 1st where joe biden is now fewer than 4000. 00 votes behind trump its been a solid republican state for almost 3 decades and its emerged as a surprising battleground this time around the bulk of the remaining mail ballots are from democratic leaning areas were also still waiting on pennsylvania the state where joe biden was born trumps lead has been consistently shrinking theyre just over 60000 votes separate the 2 candidates and the remaining male ballots are mostly from the democratic leaning cities of philadelphia and pittsburgh
A 2nd lockdown to try to try to drive down the coronavirus cases. Its getting colder for an awful lot of people in western and Northern Europe now this is the cold front cause it doesnt look much from behind it a bit of a clue from the shape of these clouds these a shower clouds over the water which indicates cold air above contd convection now most of the rain from it is going to be shot its been hitting denmark recently is on to the coast of norway and then look at spain and portugal in fact revolving just the west of portugal another building area of low pressure which means a circulation of persistent rain heading into was portugal remember the flooding for a month or so ago around lisbon that could happen again so thats an active area where everybody else is enjoying the sunshine for pretty cold mornings and even by afternoon were talking about the low teens if youre lucky for virtually everywhere except of course being around the mediterranean to clear the eastern med which again