Nasdaq. Now, here are the negative for stocks today. Dr. Fauci suggesting a lockdown christmas. Why . With all the traveling and celebrating we did over thanksgiving, its expected to produce a new round of infections that will in turn require a new round of restrictions. Well have more on this throughout the show. I get the impression were being treated like children, punished for celebrating our national holiday, but dont get me started. One more item. The biden team takes shape, very similar to the Obama Biden Team that left Washington Four years ago. Neera tanden could go to the budget office, Jared Bernstein expected to become a president ial adviser, he was Vice President bidens chief economist, and back to the future . Sure looks like it, doesnt it . On the show today, the priceline ceo offering deals to get people back to travel. The waffle house ceo, hes pounding the table, keep dining rooms open, hes pleading. And mrs. Fields cookies, their ceo somehow has to replace the reven
Happyorning everyone, monday. Pmis are coming in. Those numbers and go straight to the market and have a look at the positive news out there and how market traders are taking this. Falling. Area a touch worse than expected. Is a touchng pmi better than expected. Interesting to see the difference between services and manufacturing. What thek at the market wants to focus on, its after that vaccine says preventing 70 of cases. Global stocks are advancing. Focusing on the encouraging news from vaccines across the world. The astrazeneca one done with oxford is not as efficacious as the other one but you have to keep it at a much higher temperature which distribution could be that much easier. Not at all discouraging. Good morning. Over in the u. S. , president elect joe biden is aideing for his longtime as secretary of state. Thats according to several bloomberg sources. Former Hillary Clinton aide Jake Sullivan is expected to be National Security advisor. Could come ast soon as tomorrow. R
Will wake you up, call it ludicrous speed. Stay here, airbnb making its pitch to go public even as the travel sector continues to suffer amid the pandemic and buffetts big buys, the sto stocks he says are ready to rally. It is tuesday, november 17th, and this is Worldwide Exchange. Good morning, good afternoon or good evening from wherever in the world you might be watching. Im Brian Sullivan thanks for joining us. Here is your markets and money on a tesla tuesday as well call it futures are mixed to flat. Dow lower, nasdaq futures are higher neither are moving very much but another big monday for your money, more new records and a new vaccine candidate of course. The dow coming off its first record close since prepandemic levels in early february the index now just 50 points away from 30,000 something certainly a number to watch. Small caps continue though to be the star the s p small cap 600 up another 3 yesterday if you are not paying attention to small caps, you should. Lets also t
Seeing its a and running right now eureka even parts of ukiah right now are getting some of that rainfall at the 7 oclock hour. But so we are not far off as to the bay areas going to be seeing some of that by 9 oclock thats were going to see the entire north bay looks like its a big going to be covered with this light to moderate shower activity and then by noontime we could see the entire bay area covered with it so i will give you more details on that about the timing of the storm system how long its going to last and how much rain were going to be seeing over the next couple of days, ill have that in just a bit for now, lets say good morning and pass it over to robin good morning to you as well the rains not even here yet and we already have problems with overturn crashes and downed trees and its still dry right so were down in san jose, this is the newest problem, northbound one i want to tally. Injury accident here one of the vehicles involved flipped over so we have crews on scen
Begin with the oracle of omaha well start with the trimming of apple shares hes got more than 900 million we totally get it. Its not like buffetts bailing on apple in any way. It did sell about 36 million shares what is this, do you think is it simply Portfolio Management i think thats exactly right, scott. Its Portfolio Management. Apple being one of the most liquid stocks in the world on any market he could have sold a lot more than that if he had wanted to. So this is just, look, the stocks had a great run, hes pairing back a little bit, got a lot of cash. What i found kind of surprising is that with that much cash, actually not surprising but confirming on the value of the market is that he really hasnt made any big acquisitions. Hes only said hell only buy his stock if he cant find anything else to buy they scooped up 9 billion of their stock in the last quarter. They continue to buy back a lot of stock i do wonder even at the margins, ty any, if this is in any way a statement tha