|
TOGETHER WITH
|
|
|
Good morning. So Taylor Swift just dropped her second album of the year, evermore, in surprise fashion. It leads to an interesting conversation starter: If folklore (the first album) and evermore were the first two albums of a trilogy, what would the final installment be named?
- Paramore
- Labrador
-
Skidmore (go Thoroughbreds!)
-
Return of the Jedi
|
|
|
NASDAQ
|
12,371.31
|
+ 0.26%
|
|
|
S&P
|
3,662.85
|
- 0.27%
|
|
|
|
DOW
|
29,968.96
|
- 0.33%
|
|
|
|
GOLD
|
1,838.80
|
+ 0.02%
|
|
|
|
10-YR
|
0.912%
|
- 3.00 bps
|
|
|
|
OIL
|
46.92
|
+ 3.08%
|
|
|
*As of market close
|
-
Global economy: The European Central Bank expanded its pandemic stimulus program by about $600 billion to prop up the bloc’s economy.
-
Markets: A little bit of
 , a little bit of  as the House adjourned until next week, which means any relief bill will have to wait until next week.
|
|
|
Francis Scialabba
|
Yesterday, a panel of outside advisers to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommended that the agency authorize the vaccine created by Pfizer and BioNTech for emergency use. The FDA doesn’t have to follow through with the panel’s recommendation, but it usually does.
- One knotty ethical
question for the Eleanor Shellstrops out there: The committee debated
whether participants in the vaccine trial who had unknowingly been
taking a placebo should be “unblinded,” or told it was a placebo and
given an actual vaccine.
- Unblinding would hamstring the research process...but it would also get people vaccinated.
Now comes the hard part
Pfizer,
BioNTech, and other manufacturers have generated lifesaving products at a
breathtaking speed...and with the federal government not providing
clear vaccine guidance, it’s up to the states to decide who gets jabbed first.
Zoom out: The stakes are as high as they’ve ever been—Covid deaths in the U.S. reached a new record high this week.
Some states
have drafted plans for distribution, but many of them don’t match up.
And industry reps are fighting for spots at the front of the line: A
cadre of airline industry groups wrote
to U.S. health officials arguing that their members deserved priority
status, given their importance in distributing the vaccine across the
country.
- Uber sent letters to all 50 state governors and President-elect Joe Biden aiming to secure the same priority status for its drivers.
- At least 22 different
industries, from cleaning suppliers to meat packers, have written to the
Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices making similar cases for
their workers.
Bottom line: It
will ultimately fall to the states to decide which workers are
“essential” enough to receive the first, limited doses of the vaccine.
Currently, the only clear directive is that healthcare workers and
residents of long-term care facilities go first—and no industry reps
dispute that.
|
|
|---|
|
Neal Freyman/Disney
|
Thirty
thousand layoffs. $7+ billion in losses from the pandemic. And...shares
at an all-time high. What’s up with the House of Mouse?
At its
investor day, CEO Bob Chapek said the company's Disney+ streaming
service has racked up 86.8 million subscribers in just 13 months.
To keep the momentum going...Disney+ will add more “mature” content from the likes of 21st Century Fox, ABC, and FX under the upcoming “Star” brand. And in the next few years, it’ll release…
- 10 Marvel series
- 10 Star Wars series
- 30 series or features under Disney Animation and Pixar
Movies are where it’s really mixing things up
Covid-19
disrupted Disney’s release schedule, and next year it’s trying its first
simultaneous streaming + theater premiere in March with Raya and the Last Dragon.
But Disney isn't planning to follow WarnerMedia down that path just yet. Blockbusters like Black Widow will likely stick to traditional theater debuts, but Disney+ could be more popular for releases of live-action remakes, which have largely disappointed in theaters.
Zoom out:
Disney’s streaming unit is growing rapidly, but still incurring big
losses ($2.8 billion in fiscal year 2020) that analysts expect to peak
in the next two years.
|
|
|---|
|
Francis Scialabba
|
Let’s sync up on the latest economic numbers for U.S. workers and households.
Jobs: Applications for state unemployment benefits rose
to 853,000 last week, the highest level since mid-September.
Applications from self-employed and gig workers for a federal program
rose 48%, but that program expires Dec. 26.
Housing: A homebuying boom has added a collective $1 trillion in homeowner equity this year (an average of $17,000 per homeowner), according to CoreLogic.
- But a crisis is brewing in the rental market: 11.4 million households are behind
on rent, and Americans could owe $70 billion in rent, fees, and utility
bills after a federal eviction moratorium expires this month, Mark
Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, told Bloomberg.
Wealth: In Q3, net household wealth
rose 3.2% to $123.5 trillion, according to the Federal Reserve, aided
by rising real estate and stock portfolio values. But household debt
rose 5.6% to $16.4 trillion as relief programs ended.
Big picture: That slowing recovery isn’t expected to perk up over the holidays. Surveys of economists show rising pessimism about employment and growth prospects in Q1, especially as stimulus negotiations stall again.
|
|
|---|
SPONSORED BY HYPERSCIENCES
|
|
It’s not often that we get to use the word “hypersonic.” And it’s even less frequent that we get to say that you can invest in hypersonic technology that is officially backed by rocket scientists (and regular scientists, too) at freakin’ NASA.
But that’s what we have here with HyperSciences. They’ve developed a new way to accelerate projectiles to extreme velocities (aka five times the speed of sound).
Which, other than sounding serious, means that what HyperSciences has developed is faster (obviously), more efficient, and more cost-efficient.
This tech
has uses in a variety of industries like boring massive tunnels; helping
to take things that were slow and tedious to the next, faster level.
And your chance to invest is coming at you faster than one of those extreme velocity projectiles we were just talking about.
Invest in HyperSciences today.
|
|
|
Giphy
|
It’s
December 11, and you know what that would mean in ordinary times: the
start of a marathon of non-mandatory-but-mandatory holiday work
parties.
But ordinary times these are not. So instead of slogging through a series of alcohol-drenched gatherings, we are...not.
- Only 23% of employers plan to hold holiday celebrations, per Challenger, Gray & Christmas surveys.
Of the companies that are
celebrating, some are opting for online events, including trivia
contests, virtual gift swaps, and something called “Gingerbread Wars,”
the WaPo writes. The NYT describes a holiday singalong aboard a double-decker bus organized by production company Consultancy Media.
- Many employers say they’re forging ahead with holiday parties because they know how tough a year it’s been.
One benefit
of an online holiday party? “At corporate holiday parties, you typically
get a handful of folks who end up drinking too much and do something
embarrassing,” Ryan Costello of Event Farm told the WSJ. “If you’re drinking at home by yourself, you’re not going to have that experience.”
We aren’t so sure. What is Slack’s video function but an opportunity for embarrassment waiting to happen?
+ If you’re an employer and still don’t have plans to entertain your employees, we created a super fun virtual trivia night for your team to play. You’ll find everything you need right here.
|
|
|---|
|
The feeling of getting a 5/5 on the Brew's Weekly News Quiz has been compared to getting >20 likes on a tweet.
It’s that satisfying. Ace the quiz.
|
|
-
Airbnb
said “jump” and investors said “how high?” The company’s shares surged
112% in its first day of trading to reach a valuation of $86.5 billion
-
President-elect Joe Biden will name Susan Rice, a former national security adviser, to lead the Domestic Policy Council.
-
Lululemon’s Q3 sales jumped 22% from a year ago because it’s okay to wear ABC Pants to board meetings now.
-
Insurer MassMutual added $100 million of bitcoin to its investment account in the latest institutional boost for the crypto.
-
Ben & Jerry’s unveiled a new Colin Kaepernick-inspired ice cream flavor, “Change the Whirled.”
|
|
|
Hot Lips for your eyes. Weird, but hear us out: Limited Edition goodr sunglasses in collab with The Rolling Stones will have you rocking out with your sunblock out. These $25 rockin’ stockin’ stuffers will bring goodr cheer from ear to ear.*
Cure your tech headaches. The boardroom is virtual. And figuring out the right tech needed to improve collaboration and communication is daunting. So Nasdaq has put together a guide to help boards identify and solve for five tech headaches. Learn more here.*
Today’s playlist: Taylor Swift wasn’t the only one who made great music this year. Here are NPR personality Bob Boilen’s 40 favorite songs of 2020.
Dept. of warm fuzzies: It’s the end of the week, so you should watch this video.
Follow Friday: Today’s recs are for parents, by parents.
*This is sponsored advertising content
|
|
|
Which two U.S. state capitals rhyme but share no vowels?
|
|
|
When you share the Brew, you earn rewards.
From Brew swag like t-shirts and coffee mugs to exclusive content, we've
got something for everyone in our premier rewards program.
Hit the button below to start sharing the Brew.
Click to ShareOr copy & paste your referral link to others:
morningbrew.com/daily/r/?kid=a17a7110
|
|
Boston and Austin
Time magazine names of the Year in profile fiercely critical of Trump
| Oregon senator says Saudi Arabia tries to flout law for Saudis accused of crimes in the U.S. – Veterans Today | | Read More | | |
December 11th, 2020
 | | Do you want to carry a gun? |
| Because
of a legal loophole you can still download a certification for
America's top CCW gun permit from this website. (And you don't have to
leave your house to do it). Read More › | | |
| How I Fixed My Acid Reflux |
| Thousands
of Men and Women Worldwide Have Been Successful With Eliminating Their
Heartburn Pain Within 2 Days, and Curing The Root Cause Of Acid Reflux
Permanently Read More › |
|
|
December 11
|
|
| FEATURED BIOGRAPHY
|
|
| Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| FEATURED EVENT
|
| 1936
|
| Abdication of King Edward VIII
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Advertisement
|
Advertisement
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY
|
|
|
John Kerry
United States senator and secretary of state
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Advertisement
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ADVERTISEMENT |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
No comments:
Post a Comment