Will have to endure a dark winter. Im aaron tilton thanks for joining us we start with the most promising developments yet in efforts to stop the coronavirus pandemic German Company beyond tech and u. S. Drug maker pfizer have announced they are experimental vaccine is more than 90 percent effective in Clinical Trials the vaccine expected is expected rather to be submitted to u. S. Authorities for emergency approval this month if its given the green light it could be rolled out in limited quantities by the end of this year. The hope for an effective vaccine against the corona virus could be growing German Company by on taxes test results are more promising than expected. Yes our results are showing that after an interim evaluation the vaccine is able to prevent infections with over 90 percent probability. So. This is how the socalled m r n a vaccine works Genetic Information from the corona virus is brought into the human body via a messenger molecule the body then uses it to produce v
Treasury yield target. Chancellor merkel looks to repair the transatlantic trade ties but bidens Irish Heritage threatens the u. K. s special relationship as his views around a hard border in ireland remains central to brexit talk. Welcome to the program, everybody. Just under one hour to go until the start of cash equities trading. Lets have a look at where users have us positioned. We saw a strong appetite for risk assets last week and that continues with the big news over the weekend about president elect biden. Point 21. 550 futures percent, echoed by ftse futures and dax futures. Buyave a sense of if not everything, buy risk and treasuries. We are not seeing full wholehearted embrace of the fixed income asset class this morning. This is what got on the global stocks outlook. Mastec futures outperforming. A lot of this had to do with hyden the optimism around what President Biden might do around stimulus although there is a senate conversation. What does this mean for reflation . W
And throwing a little excitement into the game. Bonds are higher. That supports the bigger decline we had for the s p 500 earlier. At this point again we are seeing for bonds, the decline in yields probably more outsized than the pullback we have for stocks. Perhaps there is some volatility, but not today. One place there was movement was in Prescription Drug sales. Amazon has decided they will come to that business. Higher on then news they are opening an Online Pharmacy where they will sell drugs on a digital basis. Discounts to prime members. On this you have the likes of sourcelgreens, amyris from anything involved in the drugstore supply chain down in a is way as the commerce giant getting into the business. This has been thought it would happen for a while, but now that it is here come easy the big selling pressure in the health care chains. Amazon off the highs but in a hohum day is up. 7 . David thanks to Abigail Doolittle for that report on the markets. The ceos of facebook an
Put that in the book because when i was in college i struggled with what i wanted to major in. And i was really torn between going into science and going into humanities of social scientists. And i finally decided on social science because i found those questions much more interesting and engaging and urgent for me. My First Political science course we read all of the great political philosophers from plato on up. And they were all asking the question, what is justice, what is good government, how can you organize government and organize society to make life better for people. In particularly to make justice. So i ended up, before i ended up deciding to be a Political Science major took this course. I took a had a lack of confidence in my school as a humanist or a social scientist because i did not get very good grades in those courses. But i got really good grades in my science and math courses. So it was kind of a dilemma. I took this Political Science class and i dont remember what
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