Between antifa and Trump Supporters on the streets of washington, d. C. What can be done to curb the growing division in america. A look at market this is morning futures pointing to a rally at start of trading up 275 points right now. On the dow industrials nasdaqup 57 and s p higher by 29. The dow the best performer last week while the tech heavy nasdaq struggled with a selloff with the dow industrials up 4 on the week and nasdaq lower by half a point. And the s p higher by 2 . Covid cases on the rise across the country mean wheel as world waits for a rollout of the vaccine. Well be talking with new york state senator brad and who is one of fact pfizer vaccinings patients his insight coming up. Plus american i think knew try bring you highlights from latest spacex launch with four american astronauts onboard mornings with maria is live right now. European markets take look like this pretty much a firmer tone s p 500 up 45 and cac up 60 and dax index higher by 69. Pretty much about ha
Republican leader Mitch Mcconnell says President Trump is right to protest the vote cap. The u. S. Sanctions more people in hong kong over chinas increasing control. Washington has suspended its treaty with hong kong and ended reciprocal treatments on shipping. Haidi lets take a look at this market situation we are setting up for. It is firmly risk on after all the really bullish view overnight on account of the high efficacy from the biotech vaccine. Asx 200 trading higher by 1 10 of 1 . It is a handful of asiapacific markets there is or going into overboard territory. One of those is new zealand. We are seeing kiwi stocks of about 9 10 of 1 . We have the rbnz decision ahead of us this week but that market is up now for six consecutive sessions. Nikkei futures reversing pretty dramatically at the moment. Above looking at opening 25,000 for the first time in 30 years. Trading at thell highest since november 1991. A quick look when it comes to u. S. Futures as well. S p active futures u
Little point in continuing to talk. Global news, 24 hours a day, on air and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Im karina mitchell. This is bloomberg. Rishaad carrie lam with a lengthy policy address on wednesday. She laid out her vision for greater integration with the mainland. Benefiting from its proximity to the mainland and longstanding support, hong kongs Economic Development will be given new impetus. The key is to somehow open up the border with china, because we are part of china, and the homecoming hong kong economy was not just set for domestic consumption. It was really set for 1. 4 billion people across the border. In any case, most of the key Investment Decisions will be driven by how china is operating and the Big Companies in hong kong are all chinese oriented. So i dont really think a policy address will be of that much difference to investors as it might be elsewhere. Stephen engle has been covering
Given access to voting locations. A review of ballots counted while his team were not president. The president saying he would sue to prevent the election from being stolen. The u. S. Has officially left the Paris Climate Accord, even with the full Election Results still unclear. President trump initiating the process a year ago. The exit took effect wednesday. Trump would be likely to spend a second term promoting fossil fuels and rolling back environmental regulations. Joe biden will rejoin the Paris Agreement immediately if he wins. In the u. K. , the house of commons voted in favor for a new lockdown in england. That as reported Coronavirus Infections continue to search. All nonessential businesses, venues, and stores will close until the second of december. The u. K. Has europes highest number of deaths at more than 47,000. Boris johnson warned of a mortality on a previous scale. Thats a look at the first word headlines. No problem, equity markets are on the up. Asia tracking the
To the upside. Other news coming through about approvals for future houses as well. The asx up 119 points. Thats move along and look at other Asset Classes. Crude trading yesterday with a 33 handle, hasnt had a huge rally since then. Part of that is down to russia and opec looking like they will not be hiking reduction in january. That news helping to propel oil prices up to over 97 in the last six hours or so. ,old remaining where it was just shy of the 1900 level. Thats ahead of the u. S. Election. The u. S. Dollar index marginally down, the Rate Decision coming expecting a 0. 15 cut in the base rate and we do have in anticipation of all that move slightly higher than that, and thats down to a commodity related currency and the crude price helping that along. Lets head over to new york and join karina mitchell. We start with the latest headlines on the pandemic. Starling fell to its weakest in the month, with an economy already reeling from similar measures earlier this year. France