California for a briefing on the wildfires ravaging the west coast of the u. S. Fires burning millions of acres have been destroyed millions of residents have to live in toxic air. We need a california farmer now dealing with the aftermath of an unprecedented catastrophe. Prevails in a 5 sets for the. Gold coast a win over germany. Was teams 1st ever in a grand slam final. Welcome to the Program Israel has become the 1st country to announce a 2nd National Lockdown to combat a coronavirus this comes after a surge in new cases that the new lockdown begins on friday and will restrict movement for at least 3 weeks. As israels outbreak threatened to race out of control Benjamin Netanyahu announced the unpopular but perhaps unavoidable decision were going to be today we decided on a Strict Lockdown plan for 3 weeks with an option to extend but as of now weve decided that the lockdown will last until the end of the holiday. Door prelims lot of Health Ministry executives and hospital managers
Ftse 100, italy, spain, all up. Looking at crude. Wti sitting at 50. 91. Lets get to that microsoft story. It is the top corporate story. Shares of the tech giant popping on better than expected quarterly results. The big driver, the cloud. The shares of the microsoft product doubling in the most recent quarter. The stock hitting an alltime high in afterhours trading breaking through a level hit at the peak of the tech bubble back in 1999. Its going to close in on a half trillion dollars again. Its great day to have ballmer on. He took a lot of flack for not turning it into something it wasnt. In hindsight, now that we have the benefit of hindsight, he kept that thing moving along. Increasing revenue. Maybe the share price didnt go all the way back. Got pretty rich himself. How much does he have left . I expect him well have him for an hour. I expect him to be in a really good mood today. Because of the stock price. Very few of us get like 4 billion richer on wake up in the morning. I
Bowling. Boeing. Now, deere via the quarterly numbers missing analyst estimates. Also talked about the emerging market, a big deal overseas. They have emergin emerging markt problem, investors have problems. They say the conditions in china and india are actually weaker for them right now. Shares of oil, lots of news happening today with oil, catching somewhat of a bid up about 1 as you can see, 1. 03 to be exact. Even though a ceasefire from the gaza strip, a lot of interest has been happening. Israel and hamas came to some kind of a truce for now, we will see it that way. Sell the rumor, but on the news. Anyway, lots of news as we move into your turkey day, lets get to our floor show. Traders standing by on the New York Stock Exchange, cme group and the nymex. So good to see you at the New York Stock Exchange. Days like today moving into the holiday, halfday on friday, volume seemed to pull back but there is a lot of great news out today, what are you watching . The market up 45 hold
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