Report help to boost sent men this morning with the u. S. Economy adding 638,000 jobs in october. The Unemployment Rate fell to 6. 9 the coronavirus surge remains in focus, the u. S. Setting a record with more than 121,000 cases on thursday according to Johns Hopkins data 59 minutes left of the session in what has been a crazy week. Today though essentially flat, sara. Holding onto the gains i would argue, which are very strong so far this week. Ahead on todays show we will ask jeff sonnenfield how americas Corporate Leaders are thinking about the heated election race. Big news out of cvs as larry merlo announces hi retirement. We will also speak with the ceo of hershey asking about how cappy sales fell during this years unusual halloween season. Lets get to the final hour of trade, the markets and the election mike santoli tracking all the action for stocks. Frank has the vote count in pennsylvania ylan moi is covering the balance of power in the senate how georgias undetermined races
60s nice chance to step out there while its common well, its cool and just to save or a bit of a fall field before it straight back into the heat this afternoon with mideighties for san jose low 80s in oakland and 70s solidly for San Francisco. Robin were off to the golden gate still waiting for the fog to clear john its been covered in fog throughout the morning drive thats what we have a dense fog advisory. In place heading across one o one there it is still tough to coming across the span and excuse me, but no the problem so far still clocking in at 20 minutes which is fairly quick novato to the toll plaza here the bay bridge. We are delay free no nothing to stress out about heading into San Francisco. The backup that we have from west grand. It is gone so were down to an easy 12 minutes off to fremont street well check more bridges coming up back to you its a lot robin i know one and lets get to the big story in our team coverage, the north bay is once again facing critical weather
Loathe last nights debate, you know who loved it . The stock market which is why the dow surged 329 points today and nasdaq advanced 4. 7 what did the candidates say that got wall street so excited honestly, its more about what they didnt say, a lot of investors were worried trump and biden would try to score points. These companies if you dont plan to do anything about them not this time. When the candidates lay off the health care sector, the stocks roar one of my favs runs government sponsored health plan and does it better than anybody guess what happened . Stocks zoomed 4 . Anthem, cigna, united health, even cvs managed to rally. My trust owns it follow along by joining the actionalertsplus. Com club. Its been awful. Own your mistakes. We just bought more. 3. 4 yield i have parsed every word of that debate that was hard if you read the transcripts, it was bad. Chris wallace often picked on who told the president quote you in the course of these four years have never come up with a
This is boom bust the one business show you cant afford to miss unfair montecito in washington coming up the rate in new unemployment claims may be leveling off but congress and the white house look to be stocked yet again on a stimulus plan to continue to rise across the globe due to the pandemic swine flu and unpredictable weather will tell you what this could mean for those who are already struggling to get enough to eat we have a lot to get to the law that starts. We begin today with jobless claims as u. S. Unemployment fell just slightly for the week ending on october 3rd to a fresh pandemic low the u. S. Labor department reported initial jobless. 840000 worse than expected showing the labor market is still experiencing a slow recovery while the economy is still growing its been a gradual comeback as concerns rise over another wave of layoffs without another federal relief package still some 25500000 americans are collecting some sort of benefits so for more on this and the overal
Selloff. The dow industrials down 36 points, nasdaq up 61 and s p higher by 3 and a quarter. This as we await testimony from treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin and Federal Reserve chairman jay powell today, both on capitol hill later today. This follows a huge selloff yesterday sparked by an open Supreme Court seat and impact of it on the ledge Kellyanne Conway slalegislative agenda. Dow indusn 500 points, nasdaq lower by 14 and s p lower by 38. The state of our cities, the department of justice naming three major cities anarchist jurisdictions that could lose federal funding due to ongoing unrest. Rudy giuliani is back with us with his take on all of this. Then, fine on the field, nfl handing out massive fines for mask violations, all the numbers coming up this morning. Women and wellness, how some are expanding business while keeping their cool in the era of coronavirus. Super model Kathy Ireland is here with lifestyle tips you dont want to yo miss. Mornings with maria is live right n