Off your day, an historic launch for nasa and elon musks spacex after months of delay. It is monday, november 16th, and youre watching Worldwide Exchange right here on cnbc well, good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, and welcome from wherever in the world you may be watching. I am brian sullivan. Thank you very much for joining us and speaking of good mornings, a hearty congratulations to new masters champion Dustin Johnson for his recordbreaking performance at augusta, georgia, securing the green jacket, you know, just 20 under par. Wow. Much more on his big win in a moment but first, investors winning in the stock market lately as well and more may come today futures, they are up nicely again. Look at that higher across the board. Dow futures up 300, nearly 1 . Nasdaq futures up about half a percent or 63 points remember, the dow is now just 1. 5 off a record high the s p 500 coming off a record breaking session friday. The nasdaq just 2. 3 from its own record but its really
Soaring today. Meg tirrell with details. The bar was very high for moderna after pfizers efficacy last week. Mad earn moderna met the 94 percent efficacy and will seek the fda emergency authorization in the coming weeks. We just talked to the doctor who has been leading the vaccine and Drug Development as part of operation warp speed about the significance of this moment, really seeing two vaccines in a row at this high level of efficacy heres what he said. Its an extraordinary outcome, frankly, to have two different vaccines tested in different conditions by two Different Companies developed independently yield very similar outcomes this gives a huge confidence into the data obtained and really suggests that the 90 percent and more efficacy is true and real. But of course, melissa, as were getting this extremely good news it comes at a time in the pandemic when weve never been seeing more daily cases, were seeing 140,000 a day on average right now. And were seeing more and more people
Shares of boeing helping lead the dow higher following positive comments from a top european safety regulator about the future of the 737 max. More on that in just a moment. Boeing is up about 3 . The s p up around a percent, close to that at the moment, 59 minutes left, sara. Coming up on todays show, shares of Kansas City Southern they have held up relatively well this year ticking lower on the back of earnings today we will talk to the railroads ceo about those results. Plus we will talk about the impact the coronavirus is having on the world of sports with the ceo of a Testing Company they test for big 10 and pac12. The company is quidel. Their stock be that flying 58 minutes left of trade, mike santoli, megger theel and joining us to talk about boeing today is sheila kaiialo. Mike, the market strong. A gentle rise the market found its footing for the second straight day around the time the european markets closed in the late morning we have been trudging higher since then the s p
Markets slump as warnings from the fed on the need for more stimulus ignites fresh jitters. Powell and mnuchin take the stage again today. Partial measures. France cracks down on gatherings and bars but will not impose a full lockdown to stem a surge in virus cases. Do it like the germans. Richie soon act will set out a new crisis plan to protect jobs today. One proposal is for a wage top up scheme for workers who return parttime. Otherwise known here as we are under no an hour away from the start of cash trading in europe. Big drops anticipated for european stocks. You can see ftse futures down 9 10 of 1 . Dax futures down 1 . Down even futures more. U. S. Futures dont look as bad. Remember, u. S. Stocks took a big hit yesterday. Europe escaped losses. Europe has catch up play on the way down. Set, at least in the s p and dow, to stabilize. Anna absolutely. Thats a crucial transatlantic difference in time. We ended in very different places yesterday. Lets have a look at the gmm. You c
Surveillance. I am nejra cehic. We are seeing european equities accelerate to the downside. The stoxx 600 down 0. 6 . Futures pointbut to a lower open. The five year yield hit several record lows. Target rangeow the from the fed. Lets get the bloomberg first word news. Laura the u. S. Death toll from the coronavirus talked 150,000 topped 150,000. Texas, california and florida had record cases. Dr. Fauci warned more protection will be needed. He said if you have goggles or a face shield, you should use it. Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg was speaking alongside the bosses. Rom alphabet, apple he says facebook lags behind its competitors. Credit suisse says it will merge trading and Investment Banking and combine its risk function. The chief executive says it is the first major rebound of the swiss lender. Undoes some of the decisions by the predecessor. The bank merger is something we have been discussing for months. Bute will be costbenefits, it is about having one underwriting business to ha