Soaring today. Meg tirrell with details. The bar was very high for moderna after pfizers efficacy last week. Mad earn moderna met the 94 percent efficacy and will seek the fda emergency authorization in the coming weeks. We just talked to the doctor who has been leading the vaccine and Drug Development as part of operation warp speed about the significance of this moment, really seeing two vaccines in a row at this high level of efficacy heres what he said. Its an extraordinary outcome, frankly, to have two different vaccines tested in different conditions by two Different Companies developed independently yield very similar outcomes this gives a huge confidence into the data obtained and really suggests that the 90 percent and more efficacy is true and real. But of course, melissa, as were getting this extremely good news it comes at a time in the pandemic when weve never been seeing more daily cases, were seeing 140,000 a day on average right now. And were seeing more and more people
Nasdaq declined. 82 there is only one thought. Good, they all got a chance to buy. Not long ago on days like this we say oh boy, i got to get out of here while it is getting good who knows what it is going to happen with this thing it is going to roll over now we often see pull backs like this as opportunities that are too precious to swander. How do we explain the new mindset . I think because we broken the tyranny of the indexers. When the fed says something positive or when we get solid employment number. Either way, we were in the throw to these big macro events. They control everything. Not anymore. These days macro does not matter very much. And etf buyers have stopped reacting to this stuff instead they react to the opportunity so when stocks come down, these people step up and actually start buying, make it much harder to have a hideous selloff you know what there is nothing new about this less lock steps opportunity mindset. This was the old new normal of the index funds 20 ye
Nasdaq. Now, here are the negative for stocks today. Dr. Fauci suggesting a lockdown christmas. Why . With all the traveling and celebrating we did over thanksgiving, its expected to produce a new round of infections that will in turn require a new round of restrictions. Well have more on this throughout the show. I get the impression were being treated like children, punished for celebrating our national holiday, but dont get me started. One more item. The biden team takes shape, very similar to the Obama Biden Team that left Washington Four years ago. Neera tanden could go to the budget office, Jared Bernstein expected to become a president ial adviser, he was Vice President bidens chief economist, and back to the future . Sure looks like it, doesnt it . On the show today, the priceline ceo offering deals to get people back to travel. The waffle house ceo, hes pounding the table, keep dining rooms open, hes pleading. And mrs. Fields cookies, their ceo somehow has to replace the reven
Will wake you up, call it ludicrous speed. Stay here, airbnb making its pitch to go public even as the travel sector continues to suffer amid the pandemic and buffetts big buys, the sto stocks he says are ready to rally. It is tuesday, november 17th, and this is Worldwide Exchange. Good morning, good afternoon or good evening from wherever in the world you might be watching. Im Brian Sullivan thanks for joining us. Here is your markets and money on a tesla tuesday as well call it futures are mixed to flat. Dow lower, nasdaq futures are higher neither are moving very much but another big monday for your money, more new records and a new vaccine candidate of course. The dow coming off its first record close since prepandemic levels in early february the index now just 50 points away from 30,000 something certainly a number to watch. Small caps continue though to be the star the s p small cap 600 up another 3 yesterday if you are not paying attention to small caps, you should. Lets also t
Thanks to pfizer well have a vaccine by the end of First Quarter that news sent the market soaring. The dow is only surging 830 points that tech heavy nasdaq, the demand of so many stocks that did well under covid19 tyranny lost in an astounding 1. 53 . What a bifurcation it is also the time. We are in the middle of a spike of infections. New cases are exploding over the country, over 100,000 a day and even the weekend we are much treating it in the spring that only matters if we have enough hospital beds a lot of people are having cavalier attitude. Hey, you are fine unless you are old. Well, guess what, a lot of us are old. The sense is understood and respected. When you have more than 100,000 new infections everyday, you are looking at a lot of fatalities we need this the truth is we tried to fight the pandemic state by state. That failed. Europeans are failing too, i know, asia is doing great. If we were serious of Contact Tracing and social distancing and wearing masks, we may be