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
To president elect biden Energy Continues a monster move higher the oil and gas etf up 13 in the last two days. Despite the steady increase in covid cases vaccine developments are continuing to help the likes of the airlines, cruise stocks, retail all surging higher today as we cross that 30,000 level once again, to check it we are still above it will we say that 59 minutes left to trade. 29 points above it. On todays show, two voices to help explain the dows record rise in just a few minutes Jeremy Siegel will join us and later Liz Ann Saunders plus former testry secretary jack lew will discuss president elect biden pick of janet yellen to lead his treasury administration. Lets get the latest from wall street mike santoli is tracking the action to led us to dow 30k. Certainly the story today because of that big round number i am going to keep it consistent, though, and take a fwlims at the s p 500. Similar look in every respect in terms of getting back up pretty much to an alltime hig
But we will be told to proceed with caution and dow closing for the first time in history over 30,000 the question tonight, are we headed yes, thats right, are we heading higher and higher . There are positives. The president ial transition is under way. We have three coronavirus vaccines ready to rock so, is the next 10 move higher and higher or are we headed lower and lower . Well that song, thats a miserable song thats why we chose it. Please dont at me on twitter. In the list of bullish things we talk about, the peaceful transfer of power as being a bullish thing. You would think that would be a given. I find the market took that as a positive today fascinating. I will be the first to say in terms of the Broader Market, i have been dead wrong we have had individuals stocks we have done a good job with Broader Market not so much we are so over it in terms of valuation, euphoria, the things that can go right, not just the head winds out there despite it has bnsecause i been market we
Join fizer pfizer you can see were just about 20 points shy of the all time high on the dow a lot of news to unpack. We got the news from moderna showing the vaccine is more than 94 effective in preventing cases of covid19. We saw details in the study showing it prevented severe cases of covid19. So that a very strong result comes, of course, after the pfizer data last week showed that its vaccine was more than 90 effective. The first two out of gate showing incredibly strong efficacy questions do remain including these preventative cases of covid19 but do the vaccines sprent infection with the virus completely we dont yet know that we also dont know because this is a brand new virus and these are brand new vaccines how long this protection will last. So those are things that are going to come and be answered in the future looking at these data so what happens next well, both of the Companies Soon are going to file with the fda for emergency use authorization. The fda will then hold wh
11. 6 billion deal on the top of the spanish 600. Part of the solution. Saying europes banks have come a long way since the last crisis and the sector is key to the recovery translator it is only with strong banks and Strong Capital market, europe can afford the means to fight the consequences of the europe pandemic for the first time President Trump publicly admits joe biden won the election but refuses to concede. Meeting with top vaccine makers as coronavirus cases across the u. S. Top 11 million. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the start of a new trading week lets get you right into the market action. The hand over from asia was pretty positive. The nikkei and the highest level ever positive data coming out of china. Industrial production beating expectations retail sales a miss but the strongest level it has been. Weve had news of the latest trade agreement signed in the asia pacific alongside china abolishing tariffs for 92 of the region another positive boost for stocks over