On a covered relief package, is congress truly ready to drop the politics and throw the financial lifeline to millions of americans, Peter Navarro is about to join me live from the white house the president s top trade advisor helplessly demanding more from billions and coronavirus aid to form what he calls a physical bridge between the terrifying covid spike were seen today and widespread vaccine distribution, why hes breaking with cop senators who are resisting the relief package. How do salesforce is 28 billion acquisition of work from home darling slack really go down, slack cofounder and ceo Stuart Butterfield who grew up in a cabin with no Running Water in canada. What a story, he will take us inside the room to tell us how he got a price for his work from anywhere in prior that has some on wall street raising eyebrows but not salesforce. We begin with the fox business alert, could we be days away from a covid relief bill, House Speaker nancy pelosi holding a News Conference a co
That is the shoes, right . The shoe extension . Francine i dont know if you can hear it, but it is a neighbors. It wont last very long. Hammeringtle bit of there. We welcome all of you here, to the realities of the pandemic. The pandemic is front and center, but there is a lot of other news. I would note pacific rim currencies continue strong. Francine they certainly do, and there is quite a lot going on also in pound talks, so lets not forget brexit and the u. K. E. U. Relationship. Les get to first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika the Trump Campaign is abandoning demands that almost 700,000 is withdrawing a key part of its lawsuit against the Election Results in pennsylvania. It is abandoning demands that almost 700,000 mailin ballots be thrown out because observers were kept too far away from the count. The challenge is now against a far smaller number of ballots, almost certainly just a fraction of bidens lead in the state. Joe biden is Meeting National security experts, but his
Message in the market that we need to Pay Attention to i think its interesting because last weeks the markets were so weak and everyone felt so despondent that this week was going to be just a replay of last week. I think that as the election is here today, people are settled, i think, into the fact that we will have a result i thisnk the market thinks we will have a result in the next 24 hours i think we all have fatigue from this election and i this i just havi i think just having a decision is what the market is pricing in now and after the decision, well go from there. I think the market is positive for clarity. It may not be clear but well see tomorrow what actually happens. Unless the market is getting ahead of itself. If you go by our cnbc states of play poll, only one in five think youre going to have an answer tonight on election night. The market seems to be acting over the next couple of days like were going to go to bed knowing who the next president will be or donald trump
Amd to buy xylinx. Is there more room to run on amd . Well explore that one when power lunch begins right now earnings season is supposed to be a report card for companies. Lets go to bob pisani for more on this lack of guidance bob . Kelly, once again, the Fourth Quarter, another quarter with the lack of guidance its a bit of a problem because the analysts again having a hard time figuring out what the right numbers are. Remember, the earnings numbers have been coming in very well, generally weathering but again, big companies, no guidance from caterpillar, 3m, xerox, Stanley Black and decker. Others like Harley Davidson didnt give guidance either. Raytheon, corning. No guidance from companies. Analysts have a tougher time and theyve been very conservative and wrong so far fortunately wrong on the conservative side. Look at all these companies out there. 83 are beating for the Third Quarter and theyve been beating by almost 20 . Its an amazing beat and shows you the analysts have been
Surging as the u. S. Rounds the corner on a vaccine. But how exactly will a vaccine work well speak to stanford medical dean, dr. Lloyd minor. Power lunch starts right now thank you, ty. Welcome to power lunch, everybody. Im kelly evans. Tech is the best performing sector today, up 2. 5 as it regains some ground it lost over the past several sessions. Take a look at big cap tech name apple, microsoft, amazon and facebook all higher today. You can see amazon and microsoft up about 3 . Flipside of the coin, Energy Stocks are lower the Energy Sector etf, exl up 14 . Taking a breather today. And despite all the volatility, the s p is up a whopping 9 to kick off november. Wow. Dom chu has more. We have talked about this rotation, whether its a great rotation, whether its a microrotation into some value type sectors like energy, industrials. We have some massive moves on some of the most beaten up stocks in the s p. This righthand side, this move higher than been led by many of those deeply