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Global news 24 hours a day on air and on bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. I am Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. I am vonnie quinn. Welcome to Bloomberg Markets here are the top stories we are following. Covid vaccine in the ether again. Pfizer says a final analysis of the chemical trials data shows its vaccine was 95 effective. Free han the 90 previously. Michael stubblefield, ceo of of and later we will speak to the ceo of intact financial. It would be the biggest acquisition of a u. K. Listed company this year. A quick check of the markets. For the most part, not doing much. The s p 500 unchained. The 10 year yield under 88 basis points. Weakk dollar index a dollar index. We have a slightly smaller dollar. Investors keeping an eye on vaccine development. Tor provides materials for vaccine candidates. The presi ....
Cloud computing giant salesforce has agreed e to buy slack in a 27 billion deal. Slacks instant messaging system will position salesforce to compete with microsoft. Warner brothers announced it will release its 2021 films on hbo max at the same time they debut in theaters. On the round table, ben levisohn, carlton english and jack howe. Ben, we got pretty weak jobs numbers today, but the market shrugged it off, and everything ended up higher. Thats right, jack, everything went higher. It doesnt matter if you were maul cap or large cap, the techheavy nasdaq or the Dow Jones Industrial average, the market just went higher. That comes down to stimulus. Congress is talking again, democrats and republicans are trying to come to a deal, this is a number out there, and it looks like it could get done. If it does, it makes up for the data. Payroll number missed expectations, but people were expecting a weak number, and the weakness ....
S p by 11, nasdaq up by about 42 there were a few areas of the market yesterday that continued to outperform including the small caps russell 2000 coming off an alltime intra day high. And then there is the khodow trs trading at a record high and right now it looks like the ten year is yielding just about 0. 8 the transports a lot of times, they are an early indicator of what is to come, but maybe more difficult to glean what is happening this time given the overall virus situation. Yeah, it is and it is really not things Like Airlines so much driving the transports actually fedex and u. P. S. Are arguably kind of stayathome plays and they are also big components of the transports so really just kind of gone sideways in the last day or so, not much of a pullback just yet. So well very to see how that develops and in this context especially with the White House Task force pai ....
Gaining. It is time to admit that conventional wisdom has been wrong every step of the way. In this market, patience is not a virtue discipline cluster of fortune. Buying the most obvious stock, well, that has been a strategy that was easy i struggle about how this is possible i am not used to a mark that reward investors being late to the party. We found out moderna has a vaccine that may work better than pfizer. Thats getting off the table we got uncontrol spread over america. And mayors and governors refused to shutdown the bars and restaurants. Those are the main places we are getting infected no, it is at home, jim this pandemic is steam rolling us the prospect of a vaccine keeps on plotting it and shutting everything down. I am sure you are wondering, given the numbers that we see, how is that possible first every now and then there were moments that well stood on our head. Time like these is not sell. You must be willing to suspend judgment how far stocks can reasonably go. Than ....
Im becky quick along with yoe kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. As joe mentioned, we are seeing green arrows today reversing a lot of the losses that we saw yesterday. Yesterday the dow was down by 317, this morning it picked up 272 points in the futures so far. Also the s p up by about 32 after it was country down by 1 yesterday. And nasdaq up by 95 this morning after it was down about 76 points yesterday yesterday was the worst day of the month, but there are crazy good numbers dow up by 10 for the honesty to da month to date and nasdaq is up 7 for the month of november so far too. Also lets take a look at the treasury market. The ten year note is sitting right at 0. 896 . So back below 0. 9 , we had flirted with the idea of seeing it finally hit 1 , but it is not there yet. Andrew thanks, becky as joe mentioned, president elect joe biden has nowofficially won the state of arizona, nbc making that call late last night. He is th ....