From your local County Office to the hallowed halls of capitol hill, conversations are right now underway about something that was a few years ago unthinkable here in the united states of america, the stuff we thought happens in struggling, fledgling democracies, not here. Officials today everywhere bracing for the possibility of chaos around the 2024 president ial election. Thanks to an expresident who launched a Coup Attempt that ended in violence instead of conceding his defeat last time and is now priming his supporters to be shocked, shocked if he loses to a candidate whose entry in the race has thrown him for a loop. A candidate beating him in levels of enthusiasm, crowd size, most polls, basically any significant metric for a president ial campaign. The Associated Press reports that one suburban Atlanta County is deploying local sheriffs at early voting locations and Panic Buttons that connect Poll Managers to 911. More from that reporting, quote, californias Los Angeles County
Results. We will get congressional insight all morning long. We will hear from georgia congressman earl buddy and connecticut senator rand paul. Loss of 100 points on dow futures. Markets extending slump from yesterday as more lockdowns and the threat of them offset positive news on vaccines. Its also been a big week for retails, bjs and macys reporting this morning all the numbers as soon as they hit the tape. Working from home may not save you money. Why paying a new tax while working remotely. A little holiday decorating can carry you through some tough times making a buzz this morning. Mornings with maria is live right now. Dagen european markets feeling the sting of more lockdowns, red across the board in france, england and germany, all down about 1 . Mixed story in asia overnight with fractional moves there. Kospi and south korea shanghai to the plus side. Cheryl casone has all the news that you need right now, good morning, cheryl. Cheryl good morning to you, dagen. United stat
Morning news at 9. It is monday november 23rd, im darya folsom and im James Fletcher weve got a nice start to the morning so far looking pretty good behind us here. I think heading into thanksgiving. We should be all right. Yeah were off to a good finest hour today, and we just need a few more of those to get to thursday john exactly lets keep it going guys we had some cloud cover this morning already seeing things clearing out really nicely across the bay now only getting brighter and brighter through the day and were going to keep the dry weather around for the most part of your forecast we might have one hiccup early wednesday morning. But i dont anticipate too much of an interruption there. This is your look at the suture tower cam down in San Francisco, definitely a lot brighter than it was earlier this morning. You can also see that low layer of cloud cover thats still sitting across much of the bay but less and less of it is weve worked way through the morning hasnt been a foggy
1. 30. Immunereally, it seems, in the pound crosses to the brexit headlines. You get a little bit of movement, but not very much on the headlines being generated out of brussels. Crude down 0. 6 . A cautious outlook coming from opec . The virus story front and center. Alix virus cases. Leaders virus cases surging across europe. Leaders weighing options. Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is holding a press conference right now, saying they cannot take the same measures as in the first wave of the virus. Joining us with more from roane bloombergs is alessandro. Ndro the milan area has requested a curfew from 11 00 p. M. To 5 00 a. M. To stop the activity, to stop people mingling together and going out for a drink in the evening. This is not enough to stop the spread of the virus. We had almost around 10,000 cases per day daily, below the european average, but still higher than what we have seen just a few weeks ago. We are expecting new numbers for today any minute now. Guy when you
Third straight week. For more on wall streets move, we are joined by scarlett fu. Lets talk about how this happened. Ett we had quadruple witching. Options tied to indexes and stocks, that led to a pick up in volume. Then you had it falling below the trendline, where the average price over the past two and half months. The theme for today, as it has been for the rest of the week is the lingering disappointment that the fed did not give investors a prize that they have been positioning for. Recent winners, the tech, has been consistent laggards. They are the worst performing sectors this month, down 10 in september. Emily i do want to talk about oracle, tiktok, and this dramatic move by the u. S. Government to expel tiktok and wechat by the app stores. When did you what caught your eye . Scarlet what i found interesting was that even though it trended lower, volume in the stock is off the charts. It was about 26 million shares this week on average. That is up 86 from the first two weeks