Im tom hanson in for annemarie green. A very happy thanksgiving to you and your family. Despite urgings by Health Officials for americans to stay home, people are still traveling for todays holiday, even as coronavirus cases continue to surge. Yesterday there were more than 181,000 cases in the u. S. There were also nearly 2300 deaths, the most since early may. It was a recordbreaking day in california, which recorded more than 18,000 new cases. Thats the largest single day increase for any state since the pandemic started. If you plan to watch the iconic thanksgiving day parade here in new york city, it is going to look a bit different. You guessed it thanks to the pandemic. Naomi ruchim is along the parade route with more. Naomi, good morning. Reporter hey, tom, good morning to you. Thats right, the parade route is much shorter this year. In fact, it is only about a block long, starting and ending right here in front of macys. The balloons, though, they will still fly as organizers h
Zuckerberg and jack dorsey probably waking up on the wrong side of the bed after a tik tok prank of president ial proportions thats stolen the social media spotlight. Could tik tok be on the verge of cleaning facebook and twitters clocks . Weve got Team Coverage of all of this. Fox Business Apple whisperer susan li tracking the hottest headlines from apples conference. Apple bull and market tech guru on whether tim cook did enough to snuff out a brewing rebellion in his developer ranks. And top social media analyst michael packter on the new power of the social media rising star tik tok. The debate over the second virus wave raging across the globe, but south korea decidedly saying its already rearing its head again in that country. In a fox business exclusive, the man the world is turning to for a cure, dr. Andrew badley. Hes the mayo clinics covid19 vaccine and treatment Search Party Leader and hes here. Final hour of fireworks possible as the nasdaq fires towards new record glory. W
Nasdaq on track for the best performance. Dow futures indicated up about 34 points and gains for the nasdaq and s p futures treasuries, the 10year has finally hit 1. 9 exactly been watching for that a long time above that yesterday. Looking at it as the economy has shown some pretty strong signs. Now we do it in tens. Normally we wait for 3 . The volatility we talked about that. The inflation volatility is really low he thinks that why multiples have stayed so high. It will take years of inflations coming back. Multiples can stay where they are. This just happened well bring it to you. An Iraqi Security source telling nbc news that demonstrators have stormed the u. S. Embassy in baghdads green zone they have used tear gas grenades to try and prevent them from moving inside the compound hundreds have gathered what we saw. Some saying it was about time that some of the air strikes killed fighters from iranbacked coalition from operating in iraq a big piece saying finally we are addressin
And bob pisani at the New York Stock Exchange hey, robert. Hello there, old friend narrow trading range were down second day in a row, but a small trading range. 16 points in the s p 500, maybe 200 points in the Dow Jones Industrial average the nasdaq, though, is eking out small gains. The dow gainers for the month, theyre still the gainers for the day. Look at apple, look at nike, look at sisco, all up on the month. The laggards, its interesting, the ones that are down in the month of december also down today. Boeing had a tough month even disney. They topped out the beginning of december, 153 now, 143. Visa ending down today a little bit here that was a big mover all throughout the end of december the one sector i would point out to you is the Energy Sector. Oil exploration product up again today. And you know all of those really beaten up small Exploration Production companies, witing, southwestern, all terrible year, terrible three or four years since the tax law selling seemed to
Right this hour, where there is still here one hour left of it. Good to have you with us here for closing bell. Im Contessa Brewer in for sara eisen today. It has been a big year for stocks the dow, the s p, the nasdaq all on pace to close the year higher by more than 20 well tell you which names have seen the biggest gains and with tech up by nearly 50 this year, well have an exclusive interview with Tech Hedge Fund giant, dan niles. Hell give you a peek into his 2020 playbook. Also, we didnt answer bills question lets do it what is your drink . Whatever gets put in front of me great answer. Very good answer, indeed mine might be an Old Fashioned tonight. We shall see but we have to get back to the show lets take a look at whats driving the show 59 minutes left. Were down 40 points on the dow. A little bit of rebalancing as investors get ready for the new year President Trump tweeting today he will sign the phase i deal with china on january 15 and Consumer Confidence data out this mo