Arizona for biden. Dow is up 191. Were going to start with disney though and a surge for shares this morning following the strong earnings last night and that enormous pop for disney plus subs. Julia boorstin is going to break that down for us hey, julia carl, disney plus accrued 73 Million Subscribers. The companys 120 million paid Digital Subscribers are a bright spot the company says suspension of the next semiannual dividend is in part to priority the direct to consumer initiatives. Its very clear what the new content has subscribers. I think youll see continued increase in investment and then that will fuel some of the growth that christine will talk about at the Investor Conference that we expect on december 10th. The company says theyre reassured by booking trends that cruise ship bookings for next year are very strong pushing to open disneys closed california parks, he called californias restrictions arbitrary. Were very encouraged by the prospect of a potential vaccine. Were e
[inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. I welcome our witnesses in person at those appearing distantly. We look forward to the testimony and getting a better understanding of where the department of Veterans Affairs and the thirdparty administrators are in administering the mission act. Also very interested in hearing more today about the caregivers implementation as well. Almost every member of our committee though not physically present at the moment, some are joining us in person and others will be joining us almost every member of the committee will be participating. The focus of todays hearing is the implementation of title i under the mission act by the department of Veterans Affairs, relating to the Veterans Community care program and the program of comprehensive assistance for family caregivers. Io i scheduled this hearing because of my dissatisfaction with the pace of mission implementation. While v. A. Officials were invited to part
The month of kicking off with a rally. Another record high, 29th record close of the year. The dow industrials up 236 points at the close yesterday. Tracking isaias. Downgraded as Tropical Storm after making landfall in North Carolina. We will take a look at the storms path this morning. President trump boosting health care in rural areas. The President Trump expanding Telehealth Services as the coronavirus spreads beyond big cities. Health and human secretary alex azar will join me live at 7 30 a. M. Eastern. 25 years ago i made debut on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Today a look back at key moments from my time reporting there and the honor of marking the anniversary by ringing the opening bell. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria Global Markets are mixed. Ftse 100 up 1 and a half points. Dax index is lower by 42 points. Uk federal government looking to boost economy by invests 1. 7 billion in building projects. In asia overnight. Green across the board. Take a l
And i am elizabeth cook. So far more than 9000 people have died from covid, we are in hayward with how Health Officials are cutting down the testing wait time. For weeks, trying to get a coronavirus test across the bay area has been a problem with firstcome firstserved locations available. You can now mark one more off the list but they will still be producing the same number of tests every single day. They rush to locate and isolate new cases of coronavirus continues in the state of california like at this testing site near the airport. We are trying to squeeze in as many test as we can you will need an appointment unlike the station. Going all the way down mission boulevard which is probably a couple miles away, so the wait times were really bad, so what this does is cuts down on the wait time and the traffic. While testing is increasing key indicators spread are in modest decline statewide. There were just over 5700 new cases reported over the weekend which pushed the seven day aver
Production creeping back to life Mother Nature forcing nasa and spacex to pull the plug on their launch you are watching Worldwide Exchange here on cnbc good morning welcome from wherever in the world you may be watching. I am Brian Sullivan. Thank you for spending your thursday with us here on cnbc. The stock market has been read hot. The dow has been up over 1,000 points in the last 48 hours. Making huge strides in gaining back much of what it lost and it could gain back more today dow futures are up another 140 points not the kind of market we saw in the last two days. It looks early but a little follow through again could happen today we know the dow has done well but did you know this. Small caps are reacting big time the small cap s p index is up 8 this week. And it is early. There are a greater number of stocks in that index up more than 20 this week than have fallen this week up more than 20 trading more than any amount this week. We have more of that at 5 30 we are going to sh