Down days for the markets. Right now s p down by about 11, dow by 96, nasdaq off by about 47 we were so close to you dow 30,000 earlier in the week, but that seems to be slipping away a little bit 29,400 and change is where the dow is right now and again, down two days in a row, down again this morning and after yesterdays declines, all three of the major averages are in negative territory for the week a lot of things happening with covid and well talk more about that in a moment, but some of those concerns creeping back into what you see in the markets. If you are looking at the treasury market, the yield on the ten year right now is sitting just at about 0. 852 and the vix also spiking yesterday, probably a little bit on concerns about what happens as we go back into some of the lockdowns. The seesaw of good and bad news on covid. And well give you a bit of good news that happened overnight in the vaccine wars developed by the university of oxford and astrazeneca found to be safe. An
Test, how will this impact our sunday football . Surging covid cases across the country overwhelming hospitals. Theyre exhausted we have been going at this for nine months now. The struggling front line workers and the people most at risk live from cnbc Global Headquarters the facts, the truth, the news with Shepard Smith. And good evening, we begin tonight with hope, a Silver Lining even, as another wave of covid sweeps across our nation in big business and small brace for the fallout. There is a new and promising sign for our economy as we head into the weekend the numbers are in, and they show americans are spending. Retail sales up sharply last month. We just got the numbers today. More than doubling the expectations shoppers spending big on clothes and accessories, up 11 . Music and book sales jumped 6 car sales up 3 1 2 . Thats all good, and now the big test Small Businesses and Big Box Stores are heading into a make or break Holiday Season with the virus bearing down now and no
Covid cases climbing, hospitalization numbers growing nationwide as cold weather approaches, how the countrys largest city is dealing with coronavirus hot spots. I promise you, i will not let you down. And new tonight, cnbc takes the pulse of voters this key swing states will covid in the white house impact the election. Live, from cnbc Global Headquarters the facts, the truth, the news with Shepard Smith. And good evening, we begin with the breaking news youve been watching here on cnbc the president is back at the white house. He is going to come off the helicopter, marine one in just a moment these are the pictures of him arriving we saw the president walk out of walter reed and board marine one without assistance and walk up the staircase at the white house or he will at least. The president s doctors say he may not be entirely out of the woods yet, but his condition has continued to improve, they say, since yesterday, and they insist the president is healthy enough to leave walter
Hospitalization numbers growing nationwide as cold weather approaches, how the countrys largest city is dealing with coronavirus hot spots. I promise you, i will not let you down. And new tonight, cnbc takes the pulse of voters this key swing states will covid in the white house impact the election. Live, from cnbc Global Headquarters the facts, the truth, the news with Shepard Smith. And good evening, we begin with the breaking news youve been watching here on cnbc the president is back at the white house. He is going to come off the helicopter, marine one in just a moment these are the pictures of him arriving we saw the president walk out of walter reed and board marine one without assistance and walk up the staircase at the white house or he will at least. The president s doctors say he may not be entirely out of the woods yet, but his condition has continued to improve, they say, since yesterday, and they insist the president is healthy enough to leave walter reed as he just did.
Scored an invite. Sunday, january 19th, 2014. And welcome to today on this sunday morning. Im erica hill. And im lester holt. Why do i feel like polar vortex is going to be one of those phrases at the end of 2014 it will be a banned phrase . Had. We dug it out from the meteorology textbooks. It is real. It never sounded bizarre because i learned about it. This will be a banned phrase. Right up there with hash tag and selfie. Well bring you an inspiring story thats featured in a duracell battery. I love that story. So excited for that. We do begin this morning, though, with our top story today which is governor Chris Christie getting hit once again with accusations of using his office to get revenge on political opponents. Michael isikoff is joining us with all of this. Michael, good morning. Reporter good morning. Legislative leaders in new jersey who already served Christies Office with 20 subpoenas say they may now expand their probe to look at new allegations that held relief money