live shows all through the election. there s something so great about having snl live. not that i can stay up for it but i like that it s there. we want to begin this half an hour with a check of the headlines. we start with the fears of a new coronavirus wave as the number of cases across the country gets closer to 8.1 million. more than three dozen states right now, many of them in the midwest, are reporting an alarming increase in cases as the death toll has now approached 220,000. it comes as pfizer announced it will not seek authorization of its vaccine until at least mid-november. heading overseas, some breaking news overnight. a horrific attack in france. several people have been detained near paris in connection with the brutal killing of a teacher in the middle of the street. the teacher was beheaded after showing caricatures of islam s profit mohammed to his class. police shot and killed the suspect after he refused to surrender. in baseball, the los angeles d
in the united kingdom, and the biggest money sry of the day. british prime minister theresa may suffered an historic defeat. her plan to withdraw the from the european union failed, and it wasn t even close. tomorrow may faces a no-confidence vote. the deadline to leave the eu is the end of march, and there s irrently no plan on how to do that. creating uncertainty for investors, who fear global growth could aake a hita result of it, and that created volatility on wall street. the dow jones industrial average added 155 points to 24,065. the nasdaq w u 117 and the s&p 500 rose >27. weegin tonight with willem marx in london. the ayes to the right 20 2. the nos to the left 432, t so nos have it. the nos of it. d reporter: theresa may suffered a majorefeat tonight, one that she had warned would ba cataclysmi it was certainly historic, the largest government defeat in the house of cmons since1924. rather than wait days for her reactiono this very but anticipated public loss, law
closed at a record today after a rocky day of trading. it moved in a wide range. it rose more than 180 points on the open this morning. downs that down about 100 points mid afternoon. early optimism fade after a top apple analyst questioned their future. shares of apple fell. the rest of the tech sector followed. and it capped gains for the market as well. when all was said and down the dow rose to 26252. the nasdaq was down by 45. and the s&p lost one point. general electric didn t help matters. it was the worst performing stock on the dow index falling 2.5% after disappointing quarterly results. and they had another surprise for shareholders. call it another kitchen sink quarter. general electric missed expectations and announced an s.e.c. investigation into their $15 billion insurance charge. they are saying the investigation is early and not unexpected given the magnitude of that charge. still it spooked wall street. even analysts with buy ratings on the stock found l
another 1% in europe, the impact of the euro, now it is 1.20 yeah. most of it happened friday i can t say it was that much of a move, felt like the cap stone of a huge move it was almost a parody earlier this year. now at a buck 20 there s the euro, 1.193 it was 1.17 and change, just under 1.18, then went up to 1.20, led by a pound at some point, and all based on comments from jackson hole. doesn t say things are awful, i guess the implication, take it another 10% higher. she didn t say things were great. people know all right. we ll get to texas in a minute first, an important corporate story to tell you about after a bizarre ceo search, wasn t it? finally chosen, uber has, expedia ceo dara khosrowshahi to be the next chief executive, he has been with expedia since 2005, credited with expanding the global presence. he immigrated to the united states from iran in the late 70s. he says he was the truth pick for uber he has been very inquisitive, visionary, i gue
tiles. the total number of the record for all time, 77, 1995 i thought you were going to say the total number of trading days we still don t have that no. but i was trying to think about it i think there s 53 days left which probably work out to 44 trading days for the rest of this year. i did the rough numbers yesterday 25%? look, there were 220 i mean, there were 222 or something weekdays i don t know how many of those days were closed or trading sessions that s good enough. so it s something like 25% 25% of the time you ve still got another potential up to 40 trading sessions left. let the good times roll that s the bottom line yes bottom wlien is, we have seen a lot of record closer it s not just here in the united states joef night in asia, green arrows across the board with the nikkei up by almost 1.75% another 389 points added to the nikkei once again to a nearly 6-year high jump just visits the area and this is the kind of stuff that happens. the