Welcome, everyone, the kboel im sara eisen, here with wilfred frost. Pfizer says its covid19 vaccine candidate developed with biointech is more than 90 effective in preventing covid19 in a phase three study the cow and s p 500 hitting record highs in todays session, this after strong gains last week as well as the Election Results come into sharp focus. Seeing down sectors like airlines, cruises, banks, and energy are seeing outsized returns today on the vaccine news while the stayathome winners like zoom, peloton, and amazon are coming back to earth. Nasdaq is actually negative with this more than 1,200 point rally on the dow 59 minutes left to go on a historic day on wall street. Nasdaq hovering around the flat line. Big gains for the dow. Coming up on the show, a massive guests line ups. We will discuss the vaccine, the election, what it all means for your money with huge names nelson peltser will weigh in with his thoughts on what the market is doing as we speak. The chamber of com
But stronger than expected bottom line results. Those earnings really driving disney higher. Its up 4. 5 on news that disney is bracing its direct relationship with consumers announcing it will show mulan to subscribers on september 4th this is a dramatic change to disneys distribution model. It is sending theater chain stocks lower its building on a bright spot in the quarter which is doisney plus topping 60 million subscribers. Disney now has in total over 100 million subscribers across its direct to consumer businesses. Despite the challenges of the pandemic, weve managed to take deliberate and innovative steps in letting our businesses. At the same time weve also been very focused in advancing and growing our direct to consumer business, which we see as a top priority and key to the future of our company the impact of covid was felt deeply, particularly at disneys park division. The company says it experienced a 3. 5 billion net adverse impact in segment operating income due to cov
Guy is introducing his wynndicator we start off with another record close by the nasdaq led by big tech, apple, microsoft, amazon, facebook all hitting record highs today. The five Biggest Companies in the s p 500 account for nearly a quarter of the indexs total market capitalization. How long can the leadership of these names last if you look at the nasdaq 100 has outperformed the s p by 28 year to date but by 13 since those march 18th low amazon and maybe facebook were somewhat defensive here for real reasons related to the core business but some of the others have been defensive because of the size of the business and these are companies that you know are going to be tomorrow. Thats really the story. It is important that pmis around the world over the last 24 hours were quite good. You actually had a major recovery across europe i think people are starting to see data points that matter. All that really matters is the fed reserve. Based on 2022, you can start to get a normalized pro
Revived trade war with china this time, the chinese are threatening to label some of our best companies as unreliable, meaning they wont be able to sell in the peoples republic. Then we got some mid retail Sales Numbers that werent just bad. They were grapes of wrath bad. But just when it looked like it would turn into a the buyers came right back. Plus, all sorts of Companies Keep reporting and telling us that april was much better than march, which bodes well for may. S p advanced 3. 9 . Nasdaq gained. What a turn. Now, that in mind, whats on tap for next week . Well, first, im dreading well come in on monday and hear about an escalation. The president s new containment strategy against china the market got hit earlier today because we are getting tough on huawei, the huge Chinese Company that the white house views as an unofficial farm of t unofficial arm of the communist party. There is a legitimate concern and if we give it to them, it is a security risk. Okay it its something he
Alphabet. We will have details. Wework went from one of the most anticipated ipos to a floundering Coworking Company just trying to survive. We will look at what it faces in the new year. But first, our top story. Bloomberg was the first to report the iphone maker has a secret team working on a satellite technology, striving to find new ways to beam data directly to its devices. This is all according to people familiar with the matter. The company has about a dozen engineers from the aerospace satellite, and antenna Design Industries working on the project with the goal of deploying their results within five years. For more, i want to bring in bloomberg technologys mark gurman. What do we know so far . It is topsecret. It is operating like a startup in apple. It has the right funding. It has the ear of tim cook. It has a bunch of Aerospace Engineers and executives working on a plan to let iphones and other apple devices receive their data directly from apple developed antenna towers, s