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The u. S. Economy which remains the wild west affected country. Bangladesh transfers hundreds of richenda refugees to an isolated island despite concerns from the un and Rights Groups and hollywood abounds to streaming one of the biggest studios says its going to start releasing films online at the same time as an sentiments. On german ash for the spores as the cost of delaying the taker lympics is revealed organizers say the current a virus despite minutes likely to set them back a father 2800000000. 00. Now the Foreign Ministers of cattle kuwait and saudi arabia all say that has been progress made in resolving the gulf crisis its now been 3 years since saudi arabia bahrain the u. A. E. And egypt and posed a land sea and air blockade on qatar but the Foreign Ministers say all parties want to reach a final agreement after holding constructive talks or somehow bar reports. Crucial days are had for gulf nations talks aimed at and in the 3 and a half year blockade of qatar seem to have ac
The nasdaq up by about 120 yesterday was a down day for the markets. The dow off by about 270 points. But if you want to take a look at november hes historic gain, check this out, the dow actually up by 1. 8 for the month, that is its best month since january of 1987. The s p no slouch either it gained about 11 while the nasdaq was up nearly 12 november by the way was the best month for all of those indexes since april which was a huge month. Also small cap stocks were some big winners. The russell 2000 finished the month up more than 18 , 245ethas right, 18 in one month, the best month since that index was created back in 1984 so here we are heading into december and year to date, the nasdaq is the superstar, up nearly 36 the s p 500 is up by 12 and the russell 2000 up by 9 . The dow up by 3. 9 so fantastic november for all of these indices. Nasdaq leading the way in terms of year to date. Joe. Yep, coincident with the surge. Go figure. The second surge are you sure it is never too ea
Senator ted cruz will join us on why he thinks there should be more backlash for tech power lunch starts right now welcome to power lunch. Im dominic chu. Real estate, financials in the green as well. Technology stocks, though, the worst performing sector in the s p 500. On the dow youve got walgreens, the best performer after its Earnings Report this morning the company expecting 2021 Profit Growth despite the pandemic worst performer, it is vertech pharmaceutical kelly, ill send things back over to you. Thank you very much stocks well off their worst levels of the day. No stimulus, jobless claims higher so are covid cases earnings may be the only hope. To bob pisani for more on that bob. And, kelly, were near the highs for the day but there are reopening worries out there if you look at the markets you can see thats all the travel stocks are weak again so the airlines, expedia, weak, even work from home stuff like ebay, salesforce, same thing mastercard and visa and American Express