Role in the Vaccine Technology process. Plus a new wave of restrictions across the country, california now mandating a 10 00 curfew, we will get a sneak peek of with ans studio 1. 0 update on the health of american Small Business. Is recoveringsk from covid19 himself, tesla shares improved. They are the peak of good health, shares advancing 21 this week, the company now worth 470 billion. The stories in a moment but first the market picture, Abigail Doolittle with me now and i know youve got tesla on your radar, but first modest moves in the market overall today, walk us through the trade on the back of this positive vaccine news. Abigail todays trading action was very similar to the other days this week and that is to say choppy. We started off with small moves into the close more modest moves as you were mentioning. That is pretty similar to what has happened all week and it is interesting, the vaccine news seems to be getting factored in less and less, two weeks ago when it first ca
144,000, 65000 people hospitalized and we are averaging over a thousand deaths a day. A new round of restrictions would surely slow the economy and put more people out of work, heard even more with travel, retail and Entertainment Industries perhaps, thats one reason the market is selling this morning. After the huge recent gains the dow looks to be down about 200, s p down about 10. Look at the nasdaq with a modest bounce to the upside with the dana may be a quarter of a percent of the standout political headline comes from Bernie Sanders. He says yes, if offered the job of labor secretary in a biting next he would take it. On that, we will say this, varney co. Is about to begin. Stuart born to be wild, well i guess thats fairly appropriate. What you are looking at is rather empty new york city on a rainy thursday morning. Of course, its been half empty for about eight months and Governor Cuomo has more restrictions on businesses. Ashley, bring me up to speed. Ashley he certainly has.
The u. S. Could get a covid19 vaccine before the yearend. Astrazeneca resumes its trial after last weeks pause. Boris johnson growing rebellion as his controversial bill is defended in parliament. Brussels will keep an eye on the development in a call with president xi. A. M. 96 billion worth of deals from pharma to tech. What strikes me is the amount of cash being used to do the deals. Good morning. Certainly a number of deals across the sector. The one im interested in his tiktok. Larry ellison seems to have won the race for the u. S. Business. And then there is the regulatory hurdle. U. S. , the European Union, and china. What do trade tensions mean for this deal . Manus the other thing is Larry Ellison and mr. Trump were closely aligned. Why would oracle by tiktok . I want to focus on the structure of the deal. Three quarters of the gilead deal is in cash. Nvidia, 50 in cash. The oracle deal is about the playing cash, but it is nowhere near what it was in 2015. Good morning. Annmar
Find out soon. Good evening, everybody, all that and much more ahead we start with some breaking news on nikola. Shares are down in the after hours, following a big up day. Bloomberg reporting securities and Exchange Commission will exam over the stock selling fraud and allegations, stock down 7 . Youre response . Again, i cant speak, i said it last week, i cant speak to the voracek asity of the shore seller report, acquisition of fraud, i have no idea, but what i stand behind, despite how the gm is structured, whether their investing money, the fact that gm would link their wagon to nikola and if these acquisition prove to be correct, i think the real deleterious thing could happen with shares of gm, in my opinion, potential for exponential move and gm perhaps didnt do the homework others did. Thats my primary concern looking at this entire situation. Tim, to be clear on the story and were trying to get phil up here any moment, you know, Trevor Milton said the other day were going to
Apple is above 467. 77 making it the first u. S. Company to have a market cap above 2 trillion, a discussion a few moments ago about tim cook and how he has led stewardship of the company through all kinds of cross currents josh lipton joins us to talk more about that. Josh, its funny to look at that change of market cap and think back to some of the more cautionary calls weve gotten in the past few weeks from the likes of b of a who worry about margin pressure on phones, margin pressure on services, less impact from the buyback and so forth yeah. Listen, you look at this recent run, carl, obviously they had those earnings in late july that blue past the streets expectation. You saw strong growth in sales of the new low cost iphone sc. You can chalk this recent run to a few big trends one, theyll say listen in Uncertain Times cash is king and obviously apple has a lot of it, net cash position of 81 billion and counting also, that work from home trend is clearly helping apple or at leas