Rising by 2000s a day. A vaccine on the horizon. The u. S. Could approve the pfizer shot as early as thursday. Secretary alex azar says all americans who want a vaccine should be able to get one next year. Azar we will focus on the front lines with the initial 40 million doses in the next month, and we will progressively keep adding more and more people. Be thinking in the februarymarch time frame you are going to see more general vaccinations. The Second Quarter of next year, we will have enough vaccine for everyone who wants it. Is dr. Georgeme rutherford, university of california San Francisco professor of epidemiology. You are in california, locking down as of yesterday. Give me some perspective. What is going on on the ground . How bad is it . Dr. Rutherford this week, we are having more cases than we have ever had. The icus are starting to fill up. Fresno and bakersfield, los angeles, metropolitan Southern California the icu capacity is below 15 . It is very, very problematic and
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
Approaching that 103 level. That would be a breach of a technical and psychological level. . 99, 2. 7 top the upside. After the biden victory, gold as well seeing three straight gains three Straight Days of gains. Joe biden preparing to take office as the 46th president of the United States. He is moving forward as president elect, launching his transition effort and readying a plan to tackle coronavirus. President trump is refusing to concede, weighing more legal challenges. The people of this nation have spoken. [applause] they have delivered a clear victory, commencing victory. A victory for we the people. I pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide, but unify. [applause] who does not the red states and blue states, only sees the United States. Our work begins with getting covid under control. Economy, repair the restore our vitality, or relish lifes most precious moments, hugging grandchildren, children, birthdays, weddings, graduations, all the moments that matter most to u
To challenge records. Eu finance are set to meet today. Italy lays out fresh restrictions. Chancellor merkel urges germans to follow the rules. Bmp bounces back, the french Bank Benefits from volatility. A bullish tone on the numbers. If you look at the bottom year ago, andus a nine months, it is ahead of the target we gave for the outlook for the full year of 2020. We are under one hour until the start of cash equity trading. Good morning. Lets look at futures. Some real strength coming through futures markets sees the european picture up 0. 8 . If we look at the u. S. , we get a similarly positive picture. He saw strength yesterday. We have not erased losses from last week. The coronavirus is still very much with us. Yesterday the u. S. Equity markets recovered to some extent, and in europe, the cac 0. 2 . X up by today we see more of that positive trend. We can see positivity coming through in the asian session. Japan is closed, but we have the asian equity session fairly positive.
College we need to focus on. Tom not only be Electoral College but the outcome. Divya weston gets to Election Results on the west coast tonight. There are any number of ways to slice it. My opening comment for the next 30 hours is simple. We have seen this force. This is part of america, it deeply divided america. There is nothing new about that. What is new is the social media, the cable tv concentration, the emotion in your face. It used to not be that way. Maybe we can all get comfortable by milford, New Hampshire, where they voted early, probably without tiktok or twitter. The last when its time we talked about a not so peaceful transition of power in the u. S. . We talk about possible social unrest in the u. S. I was speaking to a senior banker yesterday at one of the largest swiss banks, and he said the Trading Floor is fully prepared overnight to see whatever happens, they are prepared. It could become if there is a big surprise, it could be see extra so we will market checks to