Good monday morning. Im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt. The dow puts together the first intraday high in nine months, processing the election, putting closure, perhaps, to that but obviously the big news of the day is out of pfizer and this potential covid19 vaccine once again, well start the hour with meg hey, carl this news that pfizer and german partner biontech provided 90 efficacy in the phase three trial providing hope this is the first vaccine we have seen results from the results are limited. They just the independent committee took a look at the trial. They found 94 confirmed cases of the covid19 in the trial and they found a difference in the Placebo Group and the vaccine group. They also said they saw no serious safety concerns in the trial. Theyre going to he mass two months of safety followup which for half the people in the trial getting their second shot which will take them into the third week of november that is next week after which time they will file with the fachl
Few sessions for tech stocks losing over a trillion dollars in value in just the last three days josh lipton is sorting through the carnage and has more josh thats right, jon bigtech names suffering big losses take another look here at apple, minhaj, amazon, alphabet, facebook and tesla just to put the plunge into perspective. The last three days essentially wiping out three weeks of gains. At the start of this year, these Six Companies were worth about 5 trillion. Their value then peaked at 8 trillion just last week. Now they lost about 1 trillion sounds like a lot, but also keep in mind, the remarkable runs these stocks have had. For example, apple is trading about 15 off its alltime high. Still up, though, about 60 so far this year. Same goes with amazon. Down about 6 so far this month, but the stock is still up more than 70 so far in 2020. Also, check out the smh, the etf that tracks the chips bouncing here this morning. Trading about 10 off its most recent high. Sector surge on th
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Leaning on big cap tech. Once again ass an anchor s p 500 First Time Since february, microsoft, tiktok in the news schumer says the democrats in the white house have started to move a little closer on a stimulus agreement, and of course david disney tonight, which will give us all kinds of information about the progress of parks, studio entertainment, advertising and more as we have said many times over the last few months, disney in some ways a reflection of the economy, certainly the consumer side of it to some extent. I know julia is going to be following that closely after the bell expectations cant be particularly high but we are looking for a lot more data when it comes to the parks and the attendance, when it comes to directtoconsumer of course with disney plus and the exhibition of motion pictures, which is not something thats going on right now. Absolutely, david, i mean, i think it will be really interesting to get some more insight into the success of that streaming business
Hackett was brought in, he was a board member, previously he had done a great job at steel case the Office Furniture company in michigan and when he came in and he said, look, we are going to transform ford, get it ready for the future for Autonomous Vehicles, for electric vehicles. That hasnt happened ford has been mired in really not being making the move that its needed to make since 2017 they are starting to change that a little bit some of that because of the moves that jim farley has made as coo, he becomes the ceo effective october 1st and the marching orders are pretty clear. Transform this company, get ready for a future with electric vehicles, Autonomous Vehicles at some point, not immediately, but at some point, but, guys, this is the most interesting stat that i can find. If you go back over the last, what, 20 years, 19 years, only one ceo at ford, alan malaly posted a positive gain in ford shares there you see hacketts performance since may of 2017, down 38 , similar to fi