Pfizers chairman admits that theyre not sure if someone can transmit the virus after vaccination. And call it a box office reset, warner bros. Will release films simultaneously in theaters and streaming platform hbo max it is a seismic change, carl, in the economics for those related to the film business and well certainly be willing to and happy to take a closer look and discuss it. Yeah. Fascinating change in the economics there. But, guys, jobs numbers, the story of the morning, jim, not just the number itself and the trend it outline, but the degree to which it is going to color the debate on capitol hill today and maybe next week. I think it is enough ammo to say, look, we have to do something, there is some areas of the economy that just are cannot be sustained. Dont forget, these numbers are ahead of what will be a gigantic eviction notice that more than maybe more than 13 Million People get in january. I think this number is just enough to be able to say, lets compromise it is
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
Tesla getting set to take off. And tesla is up 9 today. Were going to take a look at the growing musk empire. And booming sales at walmart and home depot but the stocks not getting that same boost today. Power lunch starts right now welcome once again to power lunch, im john fort boy, its hard to swim up stream in the amazon. Cvs, wall green, right aid and dorsey and zuckerberg and ceos testify in front of the senate one bright spot in the s p 500, cruise stocks as norwegian is near the high of the session for more on the market action, lets get to bob pisani. Hello, john its sort of a choppy, indeterminate day. The market cant quite decide what it wants to do today. Weve had a great run in bank and material stocks. The cyclical names have done really well recently those are on the weak side today. Tech is kind of flattish overall today here and then we had Energy Stocks and reits. So energy has been holding up very well today and so has Real Estate Investment trusts on top of that. Te
Today. We start out of with the fed staying put. Jerome powell signaling the rates will stay near zero through 2023 stocks getting an initial pop, but reverse course as the fed share took questions from the press. Steve, what was it, do you think, that spooked the markets . You know, its always hard to know maybe one of those sell the news things there was a bit of history in the statement where the fed for the first time put in the statement that its new goal is to seek inflation above 2 that was in the longterm policy strategy but it had not yet been in the statement. This is the first statement following that change. It was a bit like there was nothing behind it in the sense that, the question that i asked, i said, well, how come your forecasts dont show you hitting the goal, not even in the fouryear horizon here the fed chair didnt really have a good answer for that you would think if you said, you know, im going to move this tanker faster, you know, youd be pushing the throttle do
Jason snipe is here as well. Lets get a check on the markets. Stocks are still deep in the red. The nasdaq, the biggest losers by far today on pace for its worst day since june 11th. The s p on pace for its worst day since june big tech names like apple, microsoft, facebook. There you see the index and some of the names amazon, alphabet they are the ones that are dragging the markets lower look at apple. Down nearly 6 microsoft, 5 . Facebook, 5 amazon almost 5 and alphabet 4 whats going up . Only the bond, the tenyear note at. 62 . Lets kick it around a bit is this the beginning of something bad or maybe not i dont think it is when i was on the show last week, i said, hey, all of us on the show today are greedy. Greed has a way of biting you at some point and you have to decide is it a flesh wound or is it drawing real blood. I think its more of a flesh wound. Its taking the weak handed traders buying things like zoom and now selling. That lets others as well were saying amazon will be