Will get the treatment and break out the shovels and salt, the east coast is bracing for its first major winter storm of the season with up to a foot of snow or more in some parts of the northeast. And the mad dash to get all that Holiday Shopping done and the gifts in on time, the big challenges shipping companies are facing amid the surging demand this year it is wednesday, december 16, 2020, and you are watching Worldwide Exchange here on cn cnbc im dominic chu in for Brian Sullivan here is how your money is setting the day up futures indicating an extension of yesterdays gains you can see tdow jones higher b 60, s p by roughly 8 and the nasdaq implied higher by roughly 37 points. This is after the major averages snapped their recent losing streak yesterday all three climbing more than 1 more on that in a moment the nasdaq close being at a new record high, up more than 40 for the year so far. Still one of the biggest gainers here in the u. S. Markets investors will also be watching
How dangerous is fight could get and who might get caught in the regulatory crosshairs. The bigger tugofwar on wall street kind of edging toward the bulls but its very fluent at the moment we have green on the screen for the dow, the s p and the nasdaq. Any game for that nasdaq and the s p will be on trimming brandnew records. We have a true hollywood survival story with hours left before the money was about to run out, amc ceo adam aaron kaman to save the day for his company, how he pulled his covid stricken company right from the jobs of the bankruptcy world, can he keep them obey until the nation sees widespread vaccination. Plus jan a yellen has made history in joining joe bidens cabinet but there could be something brewing on the economic front that could make the market and or stock move. Were gonna take it straight to the white house for that. Breaking news, we want to show you the gamestop, look at them popping once again at this hour. We have the moving considerably at the mom
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Restarting production at his fremont plant. It comes days after he filed a lawsuit against the county and threatened to move his factory and headquarters out of california entirely. Abc7 News Reporter Laura Anthony is outside the plant. Laura . Reporter a lot has happened in the last few days. All surrounding plant here behind me. The reopening comes after a war 06 words on twitter. And despite talks between the company and county, reassuring words from the governor, elon musk decided to defy local orders. But the proof was in the parking lot before he confirmed it. The parking lot at teslas manufacturing plant was teeming with cars, a sign that a good number of employees were back at work. The ceo confirmed it. Tesla is restarting production today against Alameda County rules. I will be on the line with everyone else. If anyone is arrested, i ask that it only be me. Its a bit disappointing that it appears that theyre going forward. I can tell you that the communication between the Hea
Plans to increase restrictions on vaping out of fear that it could hurt his reelection chances because right now hes polling at 83 among high school dirt bags. [ laughter ] President Trump reportedly screened the joker at the white house this weekend for family and friends. Wow, thats a lot of makeup, said the joker [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause according to a new poll, mayor Pete Buttigieg now has a roughly tenpoint lead over the democratic field in iowa this is going to look amazing on his College Applications [ applause ] trump made an unplanned visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on saturday he tweeted he was there to visit the family of a young man having surgery. And while he was there he said, quote, also began phase one of my yearly physical everything very good [ laughter ] phase one of a physical. That sounded strange so we did some digging and discovered that his annual physical has five phases so lets take a look now at the five phases of Donald Trumps annual physical.