ET Stocks Edge Higher on News of Vaccine Progress: Live Business Updates RIGHT NOW California voters reject a measure to roll back limits on commercial property taxes. Shares in pharmaceutical companies have risen since Pfizer announced promising news about a potential coronavirus vaccine. Credit... Frederic J. Brown/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Stocks edged higher on Wednesday, as investors basked in the news that scientists were making progress toward a coronavirus vaccine. Shares in Pfizer, which on Monday announced that its potential coronavirus vaccine was more than 90 percent effective according to early data, was up 0.5 percent on Wednesday morning. Emergency unemployment programs will expire at year’s end, putting millions at risk.

Source: New York Times November 11, 2020 12:15 UTC