We have foxbusiness Team Coverage with blake burman at the white house. President elect bidens transition. Gerri willis standing by but we begin with jackie deangelis. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. History is being made right before our eyes. Dow about 30,000. I think is interesting today, not just the dow but look at the s p 500 on a percentage basis of a little bit more and even the dow industrial. 500 is broader than the dow 30. You can see this was a big broadbased rally across the board. I think that is important. Look at the dow winners because it gives you the sectors, energy is moving today, we see the financials moving higher today. Walt disney is a big winner today but it wasnt just stocks, it was oil as well. Over 45 a barrel, disclosing under that level and it took the Energy Stocks up because the investors are basically betting on recovery for the economy and that means more demand for oil and that means these companies will do better. Having said that, lets take a pause
But donald trump and his supporters a defiant the president s showing no signs of conceding i will that affect the transition of power at the white house. And as a by this president says that his military is taking control of the strategic city of shusha in the disputed region of the border cut about. And in sport tell here is ability to stage an advance safely in the era of coronavirus has been put to this past gymnasts from 4 countries that had a friendly metas japan hopes to show the world it can carry out next year salary olympics. A promise to restore the soul of America Joe Biden is delivered a message of hope and unity just hours after the clearing victory of the president ial election he spoke of ending my. Racial unrest of bringing a new approach to dealing with the pandemic thats devastated the country but by will faced challenges President Trump is refusing to concede that its threatening legal action that he hopes will overturn results that secured by his victory we have 2
Nikkei, last 30 minutes of trade. Final stretch of the morning session paid south korea is being dragged down. Currency markets. Sterling, cable, eurodollar, aussie, the sing dollar. 136 following this weeks mas decision and policy response. Fairly flat. We could see more action later tonight and into next week, when you have the likes of chinese gdp numbers coming out. Gyrations on the political scene, i would imagine. Lets go to your first word news and get you updated on the virus situation in europe with the u. K. And france facing tough virus restrictions as global infections are heading towards 40 million. Households indoors going under overnight curfew as they have a new wave of covid19. Daily infections hitting record in germany, italy, ireland, and spain. Reporting the most new cases since april. President trump is ramping up rift with Senior Republicans, saying he supports a bigger stimulus package. He is blaming democrats for delaying an agreement, but says he goes further t
Nbc bay area news. Thank you, scott. We are now just four days away from election day, and that means both President Trump and his challenger, joe biden, have less than 100 hours to campaign. Both are spending that time battling for votes across the midwest. The contrast striking between the two campaigns as they stump in a region where the accelerating covid19 pandemic is dealing its sharpest blow. President trump continues with packed rallies. Joe bidens fans stay in their cars. Honk if you want america to be united again. Were doing better now than we ever did. Theres more enthusiasm. The crowds the crowds are much bigger. Nationwide, covid cases have now crossed the 9 million mark with a record 90,000 reported cases just yesterday. That breaks down to one new case every single second. Well, days ahead of election day, businesses are preparing for the possibility of protests or demonstrations with some even boarding up their windows. Christie smith is live in union square with more
Officers who were pepper sprayed, one of them had to be taken to the hospital, all are expected to be okay. Police say they were forced to declare the protest a Public Safety hazard after demonstrators started using pepper spray and throwing bottles. Despite the violence, no one was arrested, the event was organized by a group called team save america, as Elissa Harrington reports, the leader of that group ended up in hospital. This is what they did to me, i am at the hospital. Reporter reida, the organizer of saturdays ali, posted a video of himself in a hospital bed, missing his front tooth shortly after he left the event, it was knocked out during a fight with counter protesters. He is with team save america, a conservative group. They held a rally at San Franciscos United Nations plaza to protest censorship. The conservative activists were outnumbered by hundreds of counter protesters, many wore all black, held antifascist signs and some carried pictures of black men and women kill