New details on a possible Coronavirus Vaccine. Edward. Reporter connell that is what is propelling the markets today. We have positive news out of two vaccine makers. The first one pfizer. The ceo of pfizer says they will have enough Critical Data in october to be able to submit for approval should everything go as expected. He has said this before but this is a little different because it comes as astrazeneca saw a minor setback of trials in their vaccine. The pfizer ceo says he sees americans start being vaccinated before the end of 2020. The u. S. Government secured 100 million doses from pfizer this year with an option to get 500 million more next year. As of today, more than 29,000 people are in a phase three trial for pfizer. The fda hopes to have 30,000 volunteers and pfizer says it will be there next week on the way to 44,000 people. Of those, 24 in the study are minorities. That is something that the fda wants to see. They want to make sure this works among a Diverse Group of
Kristina. Reporter we had quite a day today with markets looking for direction but you saw all three major u. S. Averages closing in the green like jackie mentioned. You saw nasdaq hit an alltime high. S p 500 as well as the dow closed for the third day in a row in the green. You had a lot of big tech movers as you know but that led nasdaq higher. I want to focus on two particular stocks. Taketwo interactive had earnings. A big beat. They showed a lot of people, pentup demand for gaming as well in purchase games and you have amd, advanced micro devices, their stock climbing higher today because jeffries did increase the price target from 86 to 95 but there is it still come weakness across the board. A major news story, microsoft about the potential purchase of tiktok, because of that volatility, because of regulatory reviews, that weighed negatively on the stock today. You can see it was down over 1. 5 . Then weve got kodak since were talking about regulatory review, kodak shares we sa
The plus column and big tech really help the nasdaq today but for most of the session weve kept in check after congress failed to agree on the next stimulus package. Nasdaq of 1. 5 in the doubt up about half 8 and that stinky gaining three quarters of 1 . Lets look at the month all three up, up four months in a row, the big winner was the nasdaq almost 7 , look at the s p up five and half percent and the dow up 2. 4 . Apple, new alltime high, worth more than any other company in the world including the oil, facebook hitting a new record height, apple as well as alphabet reported earnings yesterday and investors still cheering the first two, also but shares are down and the Company Reported the first annual revenue decline. Google under a little bit of pressure today. Finally we know who hacked twitter about two weeks ago, a florida teenager accused of being the mastermind of a bitcoin hack on prominent news users that negative 100,000, he did not act alone, to others charged in the sch
Earnings last week and announcement after four for one stock split. We have microsoft higher on a possible tiktok acquisition. We have fox Business Team coverage. Blake burman with the latest from the white house. Edward lawrence from washington. Well start with blake. Reporter hi, there, jackie and david. A lot of the action up on capitol hill there was just a twohour meeting behind closed doors between the top four negotiators to figure out a way through relief talks. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin and chief of staff mark meadows and House Speaker nancy pelosi and Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer. After that mnuchin walked out of the meeting and went over to Mitch Mcconnells office to Top Republican in the senate and to brief him on the discussion. This is their readout afterwards. A lot of focus discussed on schools. Chuck schumer said we went through the numbers in person that the senate put in and proposal we have, how many children can you feed with this amount of dollars f
After almost a year of online learning. In chicago, teachers are considering a strike tonight to stay put, to stay out of the classroom. In cincinnati, a judge threw out a Teachers Union lawsuit over safety concerns. The politics and Health Experts here seem to be at odds on some items. We have fox team coverage. Dan springer is in the Pacific Northwest where a pair of states are putting teachers near the front of the line or at the front of the line for vaccines. We begin tonight with mike emanuel and the confirmation for the nominee to lead the Department Of Education. Reporter good evening. President biden set a goal of students reopening for in Person Learning in his first 100 days, but so far unions are not budging. Today his Department Of Education secretary nominee said it is still up for interpretation. We want to make sure we can get our students back into school safely. Reporter he side stepped a question about the Teachers Union in fairfax, virginia, that all teachers and st