We will talk to him about what is ahead for 2020. He is the amazon executive who resigned over what he called vein of toxicity running through company culture. Those stories in a moment but first, tech earnings trickling out today. Abigail doolittle is with us. Abigail there was some action later in the day. Another sleepy day for much of the day for stocks. Record highs for the s p 500 and the nasdaq. News came out from pfizer, another headline that pfizer, the doses they will be able to provide for this year expected to be half of what had been anticipated. When the headline came out, it read very bearish. Stocks initially took a leg lower. The s p 500 going down three tens of 1 . A decent intraday move. The s p 500 finishing down for the first time in three days. The nasdaq, however, managing to keep a small gain and a record high on the date. Pfizer really slipped, 1. 7 . The barclays bond etf up 8 10 of 1 . Tones of riskoff, uncertainty around the pfizer news. Pretty interesting,
Fourth quarter shipments are up yearoveryear. We will talk to him about what is ahead for 2020. He is the amazon executive who calledd over what he vain toxicity running through company culture. Stories in a moment but first, tech earnings trickling out today. Abigail doolittle is with us. Abigail there was some action later in the day. Another sleepy day for much of the day for stocks. Record highs for the s p 500 and the nasdaq. News came out from pfizer, another headline that pfizer, the doses they will be able to provide for this year expected to be half of what had been anticipated. When the headline came out, it ran very bearish it read very bearish. Stocks initially took a leg lower. The s p 500 going down three tens of 1 . A decent intraday move. The s p 500 finishing down for the first time in three days. The nasdaq, however, managing to keep a small gain and a record high on the date. Pfizer really slipped, 1. 7 . Etf up 8 10 ofnd 1 . Tones of risk off, uncertainty around the
The future of obamacare is in the hands of the Supreme Court. Justices hear a key case today that could cost more than 20 million americans their coverage. How its likely to play out with a newly conservative court. And the fight for votes in georgia. Well talk with Stacey Abrams about how she helped a red state turn out for president elect joe biden. How did she do that . First, heres todays eye opener. Its your world in 90 seconds. I will be a president for every american. This election is over. Its time to put aside the partisanship. The biden team is considering legal action so that the transition can begin. You are welcoming fraud and you are welcoming illegal voting. We want maximum sunlight. Maximum transparency. The attorney general wrote a letter authorizing federal prosecutors to investigate allegations of voter fraud before the election is certified. Joe biden announced that hes moving forward with his own Coronavirus Task force. We need bold action to fight this pandemic. W
Drop them in the chat room. Voting is on everyones mind at the moment in with the coronavirus especially more voters than ever are trying mailin ballots are voting early and as we are talking about our usual voting methods so many things have moved to on line and people are asking will voting become digital as well . I want to start the conversation by asking why would you even want to on line voting and i will say im coming from Seattle Washington where we have a robust mailin ballots system and its quite easy. I think the appeal is enormous. In theory its largely been attempted in this country for military servicemembers and it could be used for people with disabilities who f dont have a lot of access to the polls. I think if we somehow had a robust on line Voting System that would drastically increase participation and the bigger question than how we would get there. This country doesnt have great numbers of people who show up on election day and many people are so engaged. They are
Arrows dow futures indicated down by about 260. Weve seen down 300 this morning. Nasdaq also down sharply down by 200 points and the s p 500 down by about 37 so significant declines after two other days of losses also playing out in the treasury markets as well. If you want to take a look at what is happening there, yields have gone down, right now the ten year is yield iing below 0. a lot of this has to do with renewed lockdowns in europe. Lets get to karen cho who has more on what is happening there. Thank you very much we are witnessing losses across the markets as we contend with more news flow around more severe restrictions. Weve been hearing the last couple hour 24s that there may moves announced later on today, reports from various Media Outlets suggesting that london will move to a tier two restrictions the london mayor has spoken suggesting that the Health Secretary will reveal the changes in the house of commons. No mingling between households currently there is a rule of si