U. N. This on the day trump almost conceded defeat, but vows to in his words, carry on the good fight. The situation in paris with police under increasing scrutiny. This incident, a demonstration by migrants broken up as a controversial new security bill was voted through. This is life in paris. Thank you very much for being with us. Emmanuel macron told france the covid19 lockdown will be relax from saturday. More shops will be allowed to open for longer hours. Up to 30 people will be able to gather in one place. In a speech, the french president detailed how france would leave lockdown at setpoints, december 15 is earmarked as the lockdown, but a curfew will take its place. Christmas eve and new years eve, traditional celebratory nights in france, will be open for visiting. January could see ski stations open for business. Restaurants and gyms could reopen, too. All with no deterioration of the covid figures. 1955 new cases of covid19 in france. 1005 new deaths over the past 20 fire
Authorizati authorization as soon as today and well have analysis of the upcoming Holiday Season. And later on, a 170 mile trip for one lonely owl that you could call a miracle on 49th street you are watching worldwiworldwe exchange right here on cnbc fly free free bird, yeah happy friday, im democrat ni dominic chew u in for Brian Sullivan as you can see, the dow jones currently implied lower by 77 points fr so slight outperformance from the nasdaq here, implied open by six points to the up side. The major averages all snapping two day losing streaks yesterday. The dow on pace for its third positive week in a row, but just barely rest nearly flat on the week take a look around the world, a mixed session overnight any asia as you see, the nikkei down when 0. 5 and similar gains in the chinese markets. Meanwhile trading just Getting Started in europe with about half percent gains for the major forces there, including the german dax, ftse 100 and cac again, green across the screen in eur
Take a hit. The covid consumer, walmart, home depot and kohls among retailers reporting earnings today. Walmart says ecommerce sales up 79 . And elon musks billions, tesla getting a spot in the s p 500. It is among the highest valued companies to ever enter the benchmark index and musk is on top to become number three, that is the third richest person in the world. Indeed, guys. Well start with the retail picture this morning, jim, youve been vocal as to the investor response on home depot and walmart. I guess thats related to the news out of amazon. Look, by the way, those stocks do tend to run up in the quarter and sell off thats nothing new a more aggressive amazon is always something we have to Pay Attention to i remember when amazon bought pill packs, the drug stores got killed i also point out that walmarts online david, thats not going to go away you can argue someone is going to argue thats the peak i would argue that amazon and walmart have taken so much share in this country,
If confirmed, she would be the first woman to hold the position. Promising stynes leader to have u. S. Coronavirus Vaccine Program says astrazenecas shot could halt severe covid. Welcome to the program. Futures in europe pointing higher. Futures in the u. S. Pointing higher and a number of uncertainties removed from the markets thinking over the last 24 hours or so. One of them is who is going to be treasury secretary. Somebody the that market knows ery well in the shape of janet yellen, somebody that has considerable monetary experience and fiscal experience. The other uncertainty is the transition at the white house. That seeps to be looking a little smoother given the headlines we have seen over recent hours. The asian picture benefiting from all of that removal of uncertainty i described. Something more complicated happening to the japanese market which had been doing well prior to being closed. It seems the Trump Administration in its last days still has some tough time to be toug
Expressed interest and are considering participating and then we certainly have, you know, many managers who are engaging with Portfolio Companies around climate risk but perhaps not formally through that initiative. Okay. And then my other concern is, we talked about diversity and i like what youve done in terms of the work around that. Do we use that same [indiscernible] in terms of rps and other things, do we really apply the sfers criteria for the type of diversity were looking for across the board, including [indiscernible] and other sectors . I cant fully comment on that. I guess what i can say is, you know, there is proposition 209 in place in california i know. Thats why i i know. Up to a vote, thats in november. But we do not i want to make clear that we do not ask about diversity characteristics when we send out an rfp or enter a new relationship or a new contract with an external party. Were wanting to be not running afoul of distortion . The board is engaging, we do request