Week. Lets get to some of the conversations you might have missed. Lets talk about the debate. In your latest piece you write quote, the most important thing i saw Kamala Harris who was pre blocking, not debunking, was waiting for someone to lie, and hit back with the truth. It is not working politics as much as you would hope it would in saturated lies, but free bunking is explain to people how they are being, or better yet will be related, what the motive is, how the con works, how the lie will be crafted and will function, and for extra credit, who benefits from it and how. In the age of trump, too any of his appointments have been debunked and no prebunked. And she said it at the outset, she said, let me say, you will hear a whole bunch of lies. And as he rolled them out, she explained why they were lies. We have talked about one of the most interesting stories about the ascension of Kamala Harris at the top of this ticket is that she has brought with her a lot of new thinking that
Its been erased like a blackboard, erased and built again. But baseball will mark the time. This field, this game, its a part of our past, ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again. Oh, people will come, ray. People will most definitely come. Oh, my goodness. One of the many iconic moments from james Earl Jones died yes age of legacy. Right now, around this set and around homes across america, men are weeping and women next to them are going, i dont get it. Guys walking out of cornfields . Ill tell you, willie geist, long after we are all gone, they will, people will be looking at that scene, and as long as baseball is played, the same reaction, the same reaction. What an incredible actor. What an incredible moment. What an incredible life. Yeah, i watched that monologue again actually early this morning, just from start to finish, the tension in that scene when costner is told he needs to spell The Farm, and james Earl Jones stands up, with the way hes always
The strongest week since back to april. However, you have to put that in context. Two weeks ago was a lousy week in fact, two weeks ago the dow lost just over 1800 points, down by 1833 points last week the dow was up by 1821 points so that was a giveback for the dow kind of starting things over if you look at the other major averages, they got back much more ground than they had lost the previous week. Last week the s p was up 329 points after being down 195 the week before and the nasdaq was up by 983 points last week after losing 636 points the week before but again these gains this morning are significant ones they are adding to what we saw last week. Also, take a look at whats happening in the treasury market youll see that right now the treasury, the tenyear, is yielding 0. 812 so its stabilized after bouncing around quite a bit during the election and the election counting last week stabilized at 0. 812 andrew thanks, becky our top story this morning, president elect biden wastin
Is for. Beethoven is for cars. Is for. Beethoven 2020 the 250th anniversary here on new. The uncertainty continues but investors seem to have place to their baggage stops again in shop me from wall street to hong kong as joe biden looks on course to win the us president ial election also coming up the Worlds Largest i. P. O. Was cute today but to beijing pulled to the pluck at very short notice whats behind this move we go to our correspondent in tie pete for. Hello and welcome to your business on one of the johns and good to have you with us so asian markets advanced as democratic challenger joe biden led to donald trump and republicans looked said to hold on to their majority in the Senate Analysts believe a divided u. S. Government would make tax increases and tighter regulations on business unlikely but im saying in Hong Kong Rose more than 2. 7 percent while the nikkei index in tokyo gained more than one percent investors hope they will beat a new rescue package in the u. S. Soon
A look at the markets which reflect the dynamics of the u. S. Election asian share scaled a mere 3 year peak as democratic challenger joe biden picked up wins in some closely 4 states and republicans looked set to hold onto their majority in the senate because analysts believe a divided u. S. Government would make tax increases and tighter regulations on business unlikely but lets keep in mind this still counting votes in the United States. Because the uncertainty continues its time to cross over now to our Financial Market correspondent rhonda bruson who keeps an eye on the Trading Floor in frankfurt for us chrono hows the day unfolding in europe. Well i can show you the uncertainty it looks like this its a very jittery sideways german share index dax today of course everyone here continues to discuss what to expect from the United States very slowly also a few european factors are shifting back into focus for example german factory orders which have increased since september which gi