At tray Glen Astrazeneca on the defense after critics say it failed to give an update on patient data on the vaccine trials. Futures after markets were closed for the thanksgiving holiday, they are in the green as you can see, dow jones 54 in the premarket. Weve got a lot to talk about today with wall street. Were going to have a half trading day today, markets closing at 1 00 p. M. Eastern time some good news to show you, nice gains there, the nasdaq is in record territory as the dow is looking to crack 30,000 once more today after the index crossed the milestone earlier in the week. Ruling on religious restrictions, the Supreme Court telling new York Governor Andrew Cuomo he cant put a capacity limit on houses of worship. Were on this story today. Plus, it is black friday, its going to look a little bit different. Retailers going with the shift to online sales as brick and Mortar Stores are rethinking foot traffic this year. Mornings with maria is live right now. Its a brandnew day.
Community pushed back. Call this a red carpet alert the first one in months as movie theaters continue to reopen. And later, more than 800 return on a 400,000 investment it has nothing to do with the stock marketment all of that ahead on this monday, august 24th and this is Worldwide Exchange right here on cnbc. We are ready to play. Brian sullivan good to see you on this very busy monday morning. Thanks for joining us. Theyre setting up their day and their week and they are setting it up strong or on that big graphic right in front of your face stock futures are solidly higher dow futures up 215 points right now. Overall you know the headlines they say stocks keep going up. Thats only half true. Big cap tech keeps going up. The only sector to close those stocks as we well know by now are so big look no further than apple apple ending last week up 8 taking it along for the ride but the majority of the market is actually going down last week but when you got the biggest of the big going
It is up 25 , but still well below 15 a barrel on a supply glut in the u. S. And around the world. And as Congress Passes that 480 billion relief package to keep the Paycheck Protection Program running, td bank has promised some 26,000 Small Business loans. The ceo is going to join us in a few moments and tell us how he did it kelly, over to you all right, tyler, thanks. Todays rebound is led by tech stocks again they were under pressure yesterday. Lets get to bob pisani for more on the rally bob . And like i said, the last hour, threetoone advancingtodeclining stocks, thats a nice move up. But this is really in a sense tech and even mega cap rally the five biggest stocks on the s p 500, huge gains here facebook is up 7 . Google is up 4 . Microsoft, apple, amazon look at these moves up the other bigger five, berkshire, walmart, only one, Procter Gamble were down when you get nine of the top ten moving up, the s p is going to move, even if the other ones dont do much at all this is a me
I may look like congressman huffman, but im not. Shock, im a andressman lowenthal congressman is back in sonoma dealing with the wildfires there was never able to get back here to washington. So were all hoping that, you that that the fires subside and that, you know, many people are safe and that mr. Huffman returns soon. That, the subcommittee on water, oceans and wildlife will come to order. Subcommittee is meeting today to hear testimony on a sea of problems. Impacts of plastic pollution on oceans and wildlife. Rule 4f, anyee the Opening Statements at hearings are limited to the chairman, the ranking minority member, the vice chair and the Ranking Member. This will allow us to hear from and helpsses sooner keep help members keep to ieir schedules so therefore, ask unanimous consent that all other members opening be made part of the hearing record if theyre submitted to the subcommittee by 5 00 p. M. Today, or the close of the hearing, whichever first. Hearing no objections, so orde
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