Level. Toestors downright giddy get clarity on a biden transition and a wave of news on the covid vaccine. There is ambiguity about the unequal economy. Rise, Consumer Sentiment falls. Sentiment points pretty positively, though. Joe yeah, i mean, ok, we didnt hit record highs on the s p 500, so the fed has to cut rates. But the big picture is, yes, clearly this is a market with a lot of exuberance. Small caps, this is a part of the market that really lagged for several months even after the recovery began in the spring. They have been on a tear lately. Searching past the old record. So many names even on a day like today. Pause for the speculative euphoria. Caroline you look at the industries that have been so beaten up. Energy suddenly in the last five days absolutely killing it, no other way to describe it. It has fallen hard and fast. When it moves higher like this, it is not the almighty pull like big check, but energy financially catching some sort of break. Isgoes to show this ro
Plus, big tex pharma. Tech pharma. Amazon launches a digital pharmacy that includes discounts and deliveries for prime members. It promises to upend the pharmacy business as we know it and may spell trouble for thousands of small pharmacies across the country. And, just what are your children watching . A new study finds if it is childrens content on youtube, it is probably littered with ads depicting violence and providing no Educational Value whatsoever. We will have all the details. First, u. S. Stocks pulled back from record highs today as u. S. Investors turn to the surge in new cases of covid19 and lockdown measures. Pharmacy stocks took a beating after amazon announced it is getting into the pharma business. Our Abigail Doolittle has more from new york. Markets generally ended the day down, but it was a big up day for amazon. How much influence did that have . Abigail lots of great headlines that you were mentioning. It was a fairly quiet day. It started risk off and ended mildl
Will try to fill in his space as he expresses his culinary abilities. Francine we will get clarification on what he is working on. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika good morning. S p global is on the verge of a giant deal in the Financial Information industry. Bloomberg has learned that the company is in advanced talks to for 44s markets billion. An agreement could be announced as soon as today. It would be the second biggest deal of the year. President trumps coronavirus taskforces propping promising a rapid rollout of the vaccine to 2 million americans i the end of the year. The Surgeon General expects that most americans will have access by early in the second quarter. He says the government hopes to quickly ok requests from two drugmakers for emergency approval of their vaccines. A group of opecplus ministers could reach an agreement on whether to delay januarys oil a fullincrease, before meeting of the cartel and its allies today.
The shift we saw in washington yesterday about 4 00 p. M. We dont need to be on this all day. Every other network is going to cover it up and sideways come but this this is original actions by a president of the United States, really reminiscent of what we saw in 1876. It is a story our Washington Team will cover. This election of 2020 continues. Jonathan that tuesday night still continues in some ways. The news of the last 15 minutes is on the vexing front. Pfizer on the vaccine front. Pfizer set to file today for emergency other ration emergency authorization use. Think that has been the sequence, and each time there is a lesser market reaction. Jonathan i tugofwar continues. If we think about the tugofwar right now, the tension is phenomenal. On the one side, the darkening near term outlook because of the restrictions in the of the economy, and then the brightening forward outlook it can get vaccinations started in month. In the last 24 hours, the Federal Reserve and the treasury se
We are awaiting updates from the keystone state this hour. We are expecting former Vice President joe biden to speak in prime time. First, the u. S. Stock market close the week with gains. The s p and nasdaq having both their best week since april hold into next week. Lets get the latest from Sarah Ponczek from new york. Investors dont seem to care about the uncertainty of the president ial election. Sarah they do not seem to care. Today, we did see a slowing in the rally. Look at where the major indexes didnt today. The dow element lower, the russell 2000 and smallcap cages lower by 1 or so. The constant remains that tech holds that leadership position. Albeit a small gain. It is unbelievable to watch the best weeks since april the 9 . Up 7 , the nasdaq up even though we have this delayed election result and we are not going to get a blue suite, still on question a little bit as it stands but with the outlook we have, markets do seem to be happy with it, even though last week it was i