It is 1 00 p. M. In new york, 6 00 p. M. In london. Im kailey leinz. Welcome to Bloomberg Markets. Here are the top stories we are following. Progress for a vaccine. Clearance requesting for its vaccine in the u. S. And europe today after a new analysis showed it to be highly effective in preventing covid19. We will have the latest. Talksk mentioned, opec have ended today without a deal. The conversation will be picked up tomorrow, but we will explore what it means for the cartel. General motors will not take an initial stake in the electric Vehicle Company nicola, which announced today it will go to one of its electric vehicles, a pickup to be called the badger. Lets get a quick check on the markets. We are on the last trading day of the best month for Global Equities since november, but we look set to end the month of november on a softer note. The s p 500 right now down 0. 6 . It was the fourth consecutive monday of positive vaccine data, but the good news not having the effect it d
Been going on on forever. And its like do we have a new president yet . Good morning to you. Thank you for joining us for our midday newscast. Im marcus washington. Thousands of ballots have been counted but still tens of thousands left across the country. The race is still too close to call but if fieden webiden were two own winning georgia put him one electoral collect short. Biden is catching up in the key states as they count mailin ballots. Remember, trump discouraged his supporters from using mailin ballots. Democrats did use them and because they are generally counted last these mailin ballots as the last few trickle in, postmarked, of course, by election day, we are seeing biden make huge gains. Take a look at pennsylvania this morning. Pennsylvania biden has 3,310,000 and trump has 3,296,000. They could not count the mailin ballots in pennsylvania until election day. They pointed out mailin ballots are arduous to count. We are counting hundreds of thousands of ballots in an in
Because it was his metaphor about the puzzle. Once you get into those metaphors you can break a wrist trying to keep them going. If you are just waking up, significant developments. Overnight joe biden taking the lead in georgia in part with some of the votes coming in from john lewis district. An historical significance. Something poetic about that. And then, of course, in pennsylvania, joe biden taking the lead. At cbs news, we are not projecting the race at this point, nor are we projecting any of the battleground states still outstanding because there are still votes out there to be counted. These are narrow leads. In pennsylvania, its about 5,000. And as we noted in pennsylvania, its 100,000 there are paths for both candidates but the path for President Trump is narrowing, as we say. The lead in georgia is translieutenatran transluce translucent, its so thin but in pennsylvania for the last day and a half, whats going to happen around philadelphia and pittsburgh . Traditionally in
In your state . We will open up our regular lines. If you support President Trump and Vice President pence, we want to hear from you at 202 7488000. If you support democratic candidate joe biden and Kamala Harris, we want to hear from you at 202 7488000. If you are undecided or support another president ial ticket, your number is 202 7488002. You can oyster text us your and we at 202 7488003 are always reading on social media. Once again, we are looking to talk to our viewers in battleground states only this morning, as the last few hours of this election season come to a close. Cook political report actually has a list of states which it considers to be up for grabs for this Electoral College season. You can see those states on your screen, six states listed officially as tossup states theida, georgia, iowa, second Congressional District of maine, North Carolina, ohio, and texas. Those are the states that are officially listed as tossups from the Cook Political Report. We want to hear
State in this cycle. Guest first, demographic changes. The state is rapidly changing and was moving in a peripheral direction for the last couple of election cycles. See doesnt explain what we in terms of this particular election, where it seems to be a good amount of republican defection from ranks and republicans indicating they are voting democrat, independents are leaning toward biden and mark kelly, the senate candidate. We have seen a surge in democratic registration in the state. On the whole, that is unlikely to change the trend as were publicans far outnumber democrats in the state. Host you had an oped in the New York Times titled why would a republican vote biden, asked arizonans . Why would they support biden . What has changed . Guest i credit my colleague here at the university of arizona. Together we worked on a survey with the arizona policy lab, an organization affiliated with the school of government and public policy. What we find is a surprising number of arizonans