And only talk about the virus, the vaccine developments, when there is not much thats new. Why do this at all on a friday evening . I cant answer that. Its good to get out of the house, i guess. Been announcement about pfizer come a couple of weeks earlier, which to be clear, doesnt appear the science would have allowed, im sure we would be talking about a different political landscape. Even with that bad timing. It is certainly an achievement for this administration to have been able to help accelerate some of these vaccines, like the vaccineng moderna into the final stages, and hopefully the level of emergency approval and access to the American Public by the end of the year. That remains a very big deal if it does go that way. Emily can you clarify for the record what pfizers involvement was in operation warp speed . They did not get money from the government, saying they misrepresented the involvement. What do we know to be the truth about that . Question, andeat its important we c
Day event. Our new betting week close there, never to be seen again, perhaps . Barstool sports has put Penn National gaming stocks firmly in the lead, but nearly a month after its recordbreaking rollout, whats the next may for Penn National gaming whose stock surged 153 year to date . Penn national Ceo Jay Snowden is here in a fox buzz exclusive. Plus business exclusive. Plus, weve got the woman who traded Silicon Valley for the heartland and now has her homegrown products flying off amazons digital shelves. But first, we begin with a fox business alert here. Investors are pulling back the reins on workhorse at this hour after it gallopedded ahead at the opening. Take a look at the utility maker. It secured about 200 million in funding from institutional lenders in the form of senior secured convertible notes due in 2024. So you can see where we opened, above 30 a share. Right now were at 27. 05. So really pulling back, and possibly just getting to the flatline from where it closed on
Sales and the stock is hitting new highs. And finally teslas tumble, why the street is mixed on what actually came out of the companys battery day event yesterday. J j, though, jim, going to be the lead and you just called it maybe the best company we have in this country. Yeah, look, i think that i like triple a balance sheet, i like a company that continues to make the numbers, i like a company that pays a good dividend, has the best pipeline, most robust pipeline in pharmaceuticals and i like a company thats not a hype company. The fact that they are ready to do their vaccine now, full disclosure i am attempting to get into the trial, i think its everybodys duty to get into the trial they are the only one emphasizing the atrisk people they want people who we view as people who we need to protect. I dont hear that from any of the other companies. I like the fact they are willing to give it to their whole employee base. This is the way i think it should be done and i know people are c
Now. Is the work from home trend here to stay or just a temporary blip its random but interesting. Well bring you the results coming up on this monday, september 28th, this is Worldwide Exchange right here on cnbc. Thank you for joining us on this monday. Lets get right now to your monday money and stock futures are higher dow futures up about 229 nasdaq futures on a percentage basis are up slightly more but do keep in mind we could see a lot of people not working today and volatility does tend to increase particularly in the morning. And the big loser lastweek was not stocks it was the medals. Gold and silver losing a lot on inflation concerns silver down a bunch last week as well not seeing a big move today maybe a slight move to higher in some of the medals gold down about. 7 of 1 now lets set you up for the week with what were going to call the wex watch list. Thats our internal name for Worldwide Exchange get it w. E. X. This is the most important thing for you this week. Now all
Runs out and shares of Bed Bath Beyond are surging, the retailer reports comps of 6 , online sales soaring 89 , jim so earlier in the week, jim, and even last week you seem to be pessimistic about the prospect of a compromise coming together. Do you feel any different this morning . Look, i think the Airline Layoffs are looming large because with layoffs come a cut in roots, with a cut in roots is a pain point, but i think its the senate, we keep talking about mnuchin and we keep talking about speaker pelosi, but i think the senate is buying into the president s vshaped recovery and i think Mitch Mcconnell is buying into it which says why do we need more we have a v shape, its just Certain Industries that can be triaged. I know that the industries represent small and mediumsized business so im against that, but i would say in favor of the mcconnell position, at least if you are looking at the stock market, this set of earnings, now, that is not what they care about and i dont want to m