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At any moment in wilmington, delaware. It will be the former Vice President s first oncamera comments since election day, election night. Of course, last night. And were going to take you there as soon as it happens. And President Trump has yet to be seen today, but he is using the twitter microphone to blast the process of tabulating votes across the nation. Wisconsin, the latest state in the biden column as we just told you. The fox news decision desk awarded it to the vp, as we said, in about 12 minutes. The number of votes separating the candidates, razor thin. So the Trump Campaign has called for a recount. In michigan the counts still ongoing at this hour. The secretary of state saying we could see unofficial results by the end of the day. Biden with a slight lead at the moment. Now in pennsylvania more than a mil ....
S p indicated up fractionally. The nasdaq up fractionally as well overnight in asia, the nikkei ended higher it was up by 11 points thats still a win hang seng was up by a quarter percent. So was the shanghai composite. This morning and in some of the early trading weve seen take place in europe, modest advances actually things are relatively flat the cac is up by 0. 1 . The ftse is flat the dax is flat. Well see how things react as we get deeper into the trading day. Lets look at crude oil prices crude was down yesterday this morning its back above 50. 50. 7 5 50. 70 Hurricane Maria is lashing the islands, and puerto rico is preparing for a strike Steve Mclaughlin joins us now. From 7 00 p. M. To 1 00 a. M. , this storm had winds of 175, were down to 155 this is a strong category 4. The eyewall a bit bigger, now on land, mainland puerto rico we dont get an official landfa ....
With heearnings season around t bend wont i be dis appoiappoin with what i hear . Today the averages started strong before pulling back. Dow slipping 21. S p dipping and the nasdaq. 36 . Its a good day to tackle the question. I was with my fabulous daughter all weekend and couldnt give anyone an in depth answer. I apologize. If i had a chance i would have said the action, the stock action is dictating my attitude. The action that has so many stocks hitting new highs in the last week alone. Some of it tends to happen right before you go higher. Not right before you fall off the cliff. Consider the stocks that made the new high list last week. First we had the consumer packaged goods plays. I would say they are too numerous to mention. Listen to this. Es today lauder, kimberly clark, cocacola, altria, conagra, general mills, johnson johnson, kelloggs, mckor oh miracle, molson. What do they have in common . They take raw commodities and make them into something. They refine them, package, ....
Well break down all the mergers and acquisitions and wheel talk to miles white about his 25 billion of st. Jude. A strong Earnings Report after the bell yesterday, the company shattered estimates and is proposing a new sale structure. And well take a look at how the day on wall street is shaping up. Lets get to m a. The deal valuing st. Jude at 85 a share. Lets keep a close eye on abbott labs stock. They expect to add to earnings. Wheel have an interview with ceo white. And a crossborder hostile for medivation. We have plenty in the world of health care so to speak. Jim, lets start off with abbott. By the way, they also have this olear deal on tap. That kaem prior to them signing a confidential agreement late in february to get this deal done on st. Jude. Theyre talking big accretion. Im looking at a stock that is down pretty dramatically. Its a cash and share deal. So it is going to have the effect of hurting the overall value o ....