Of optimism into the market. Thats sending a huge swath of the markets to record highs, as president elect joe biden gets clearance from the Trump Administration to begin preliminary transition protocols. Yes, it crashed through the 30,000 ceiling but can the dow close there . Heres what you need to watch in the next call it 59 minutes with me. The dow has got to be up 359 points for a brand new record. But were above 30,000 and that means we are up about 437, just 29 points above 30,000. So you get to do the math there. The s p has got to be up 49 points. We are at the moment up 55. No record for the nasdaq, but it did pop above 12,000 for the very first time and we are still there, 12,026. The russell, im not going to ignore it. I know you russell fans. These are the small and midcaps. Any gain is a record. The dow transports also about to close at new alltime highs. We are watching it all so closely. But as the markets say let the good times roll, there is a darker backdrop at this
Line here, it too on track for a record close. An effective vaccine now more important than ever as the pandemic death toll today topped 250,000 americans. Yesterday alone, more than 1500 people died. One of the biggest obstacles to rolling out a new vaccine, we talked about this, maintaining the ultralow temperatures needed to transport tens of millions of doses. The ceo of the u. S. Company that says it can get it done is here. Hes churning out his medical grade freezers as fast as he can. We will show you what it takes to achieve refrigeration nation. With cases spiking, businesses, yeah, you will dread this, sending workers back home again. Are you dreading zoom group calls . We are about to show you a new video platform that may have you considering the switch. Plus, chris krebs, that trump appointee the president fired last night by tweet for saying the election was secure, has just himself tweeted out a defense. We will show you that tweet and the two protrump senators siding wi
As timing who gets it and when, that is all still to be decided. There is a bit of a protocal for this. Well get into that with a prominent doctor as well. The left and right view on this battle, but first to blake burman on this latest news and this efficacy rate which was higher than both companies originally said, right . Reporter exactly, neil. We knew this Pfizer Vaccine candidate was effective. Pfizer though reiterating that today, in fact raising the effective rate on their covid19 vaccine candidate but just as important pfizer today also reported that they believe their vaccine candidate is safe which is why they say they are going to be applying for the eua. That is the emergency use authorization that the fda gives out. They will apply for that in the coming days. Here is what pfizer said earlier today as part of their news release they put out this morning. To date the Data Monitoring Committee for the study has not reported any serious safety concerns related to the vaccine
House democrats accuse apple, google, facebook and amazon of abusing their market power and that Congress Needs to rein them in. Eli lilly asking the fda to authorize emergency use for its experimental covid19 antibody cocktail those shares are rallying ahead of the open. Jim, markets trying to do a bit of a reset now as goldman weighs in this morning and says airline stimulus likely, further ppp probably not likely. What are we . Well, i mean, i think that the market went down after what the president said the president was talking about market hitting new highs and the only person that was sending them down was him. I think he does react. I think it is probably, youre not going to get that, say, listen, the dow was down, there is really in other reason. He completely dismissed Speaker Pelosi i dont know what he did with what secretary mnuchin was speaking about, whether there were phone call going on and they were irrelevant obviously he addressed the fact that the senate was interes
From apple yesterday plus, jim, fedex and adobe to kick around from last night. Wow i mean, these were congratulations gentlemen and ladies calls because the numbers were so unbelievably good, much better than people expected. Now, this is rather amazing, carl why . Because there were firms that upgraded and pushed and raised numbers for weeks and yet they were dramatically exceeded, fedex because of e com, 96 of the growth is e com and adobe because its how companies are able to digitize quickly, particularly retailers, in order to be able to take advantage of this this amazing wave, this amazing boom of ecommerce to the home because of the pandemic so how can there be such a structural thematically strong story behind ecommerce and packages and growth and the targets that fdx has pulled forward by years and all the good news today on vaccines and therapeutics well, i think whats really convincing here with fedex is that theyre talking about how theres actually a weak economy in the S