95 points higher. You know liz mentioned this down the stretch of her show, russell 2000, the small cap stocks, dow transports they both closed at records today as well. That is kind of day. A lot of green and really big day for stocks. Im Connell Mcshane. We welcome you to after the bell. Those are the numbers at the close. Time now for the news thats happening at this hour. We have fox Business Team coverage with Jackie Deangelis in the new york newsroom, blake burman reporting from washington, also get to Hillary Vaughn in wilmington, delaware, president elect biden just wrapped up there remarks on the economy but blake, lets start with you. That is the big news today. That Moderna Vaccine. Tell us about it. Reporter they expect, connell, moderna does to apply for the eua, emergency use authorization in the next couple weeks. Maybe distribute the covid19 vaccine by the end of the year. When you look at numbers on the Clinical Trials it is about as good as they hoped for. Here they a
So bad that were going to be debating whether were in a serious recession or depression. We have pockets, though, of strength Like Technology and health care. But those pockets cant offset a very weak backdrop, can they we saw it again today. The dow lost 218 points. The s p 500, it tumbled. 7 . But the techheavy nasdaq also had the darn gall to rally. 51 , and was up a percent most of the day. Oh, the indignity. If you make technology that helps businesses cut costs by firing people, or having them stay home, youre doing great. If you make something people literally captain live cant live without, medicine, terrific Everything Else is a drug here staggering layoffs and the big drop in the index i am worried about, or at least a lot of what im worried about which is 9 s p 500. It gets worse. If you run a business leave it to the u. S. Economy and not chinas economy, well, now your stock is getting walloped. Over and over in the earnings season we see Companies Report an incredible 2 1
Government as anger of a new citizenship law deepens and pilgrims descend on bethlehem to celebrate christmas but many christian palestinians from gaza have been refused permission to visit. An ounce on a harmless not have all the sporting colluding back to their senses they want to play the test series in pockets on next month over security concerns but are open to play in the country. Come to the news hour we begin in syria where the battle for the last rebel stronghold has led to the deaths of more civilians at least 8 people were killed in a Syrian Government as strike targeting a school in the town of job loss in ed lip people displaced from other parts the country had been sheltering in the school when it was hit tens of thousands of people fled their homes in the province over the past week as Government Forces helped by russian allies push deeper into the area a number of towns and villages have also fallen to government control mama i dont know is on the techie syria border an
Senate return for legislative business next tuesday and now we continue our coverage of a conference on middle east strategy. And i think this counter goes of whoever is in par with regard to the presidency and regardless of who the resources available. So i think going back to what was mentioned in the Previous Panel with regard to the impact of maximum pressure and what max impression was intended to decide allegedly because of lack of clarity among u. S. Policy intention and strategy on iran but one of the argument was the position of sanction and maximum pressure, iran behave in a region would be contained. Unrest with diminished. We clery see the opposite. One of the reasons is iran continued its policy with regard to its support of allies and proxies but also its continuation of the interest. In syria with continuation, and iraq and lebanon the same, in yemen we have not seen any change since 2018 in particular. If anything weve seen a more by iran to showcase as was mentioned be
Those hyped players of the n. B. A. Zion williams that is set to miss the start of the new season plus spying allegations that the Rugby World Cup is in one spot an unwanted spectator at training out of their 70 final against news to. Tell hes president rushed up talk about iran has repeated his threat to restart the military operation against kurdish fighters in northeast and syria iran is heading to the russian port city of sochi where hell meet fatima prison the leaders are expected to discuss the tuckers ceasefire that was brokered by the United States which is due to expire in just a matter of hours the cut is Syrian Democratic forces have pulled out of some areas along the border but not everywhere agreed under the terms of the truce. Vladimir putin will discuss all the steps to be taken in order to maintain the territorial integrity of syria and to cleanse the northern parts of syria from terrorists and terrorist organizations we will also be revisiting the efforts made for draf