Record close since february 12th. Right now, its above that at the moment. So we look to the s p 500. That should set its first record since september 2nd. Its 23rd record of the year. We have that moving higher right now pretty significantly. The nasdaq just a bit off the mark at the moment. From the Pfizer Vaccine developed in conjunction with German Company biontech and the stock basking in the halo effect from the blockbuster announcement to the mask makers and Rapid Testing stocks on the move. Weve got team fox business at the ready. Market mavens bill snead, jon core pe corpino and Tracy Maitland and Hillary Vaughn live in delaware, with the president elects plans Just Announced and how it might affect your money. The two matadors in charge of todays record bull rally, pfizer and its german partner biontech. Both stocks hitting 52weeks highs on the news that their covid19 vaccine candidate is more than as we said, 90 effective. Pfizer jumping 8. 33 at the moment. Biontech up 15 .
Good morning welcome to squawk box. Im becky quick along with yoe kernen and mike santoli. Andrew is off today. Well start things off with the stock futures after some positive vaccine news drove the dow and s p 500 to record highs. Dow giving back some of that ground, down by about 100 point, but remember how far they have marched for the last three weeks. S p is indicated down by about 14 points and then the nasdaq is indicated up by about 12 points. We do have some breaking news from amazon and better that coocoo Bertha Coombs ohas that story they are launching a full Online Pharmacy building on its acquisition of pill pack the new pharmacy is innetwork with major insurers and medicare and patients can pay for their prescription copays with funds from their Health Savings accounts just like they were at any pharmacy and they can confer with pharmacists online or over the phone about their prescriptions. Prime members get free two day shipping, patients who needs meds right away with
Pretty true to form on this thanksgiving hence to be a positive bias. But nothing out of the mode for a moment here. And that was a few days ago. You know, not necessarily you might think so you kind of just, you know, get ab early slate there was a definite persistence to the quarterly strength. There is a dynamic though. Once it gets overbought, once sentiment gets overoptimistic as arguably it is right now, usually you can see the multiple times in recent years when the Fourth Quarter just melted up. And at some point nifrt few months of the next year, usually you have a little bit of a recession. Mike, see you soon. Malls may look a lot different compared to a normal black friday Bertha Coombs is live in new jersey with a closer look at whether people are showing up to shop in person at all. They are. Some people have shown up. Were coming off a record thanksgiving in terms of online sales with so many Stores Closed but today we found some folks lining up for door busters this morn
Emergency use with ely lilly filing for its drug. Hi, everybody the dow and s p 500 are falling. The nasdaq is imagining to stay in the green on the day and for the week lets go to bob pisani for more. Bob . We are turning around and that is a very good thing given all the uncertainty. A little bit of a down day for energy, banks and industrials. Theres your cyclical group. Theyre generally up on the week theyre up today but down big on the week th this is that churning new high list, pretty much the same list. Not expanding much the same names are on the new high list, target, l brands, colgate freeport stability again, no the bad given all of the uncertainty boeings down today, its been up on the week thats what churn is where are we for the markets the important thing is right now were really focused on the spring reopening rare than the covid winter narrative thats because these selloffs ant getting any traction at all. Theres not a lot of volume, not a lot of panic, just churning.
Still needs 17 Electoral College votes but were getting new information. Whats changed from yesterday the president is behind in pennsylvania there you see joe biden with an 8,000 plus vote lead in pennsylvania the president behind in the state of georgia, 1584 vote margin thats a really squeaker in state of georgia the president needs both of those to advance here. Pennsylvania is the big kahuna joe biden gets that this race is over take a look. The state of arizona where in last hour we got a new wave of vote from Maricopa County. Thats in arizona near phoenix that pushed bidens lead down. It was just under 44,000 or right around 44,000. Joe biden at 50 even donald trump 48. 6. The difference 4377. 9. So the biden lead holding in arizona. Nevada similarly, weve been getting new vote throughout the day. Yesterday and through to today there you see joe biden ahead 49. 8, donald trump 48. 1. The difference there just over 20,000 votes, guys so a very close race all of this is being watc