Astrazeneca is to resume vaccine trials. Virus numbers rise but travelers defy warnings to stay home. Imports of u. S. Goods closed slowed last month. David amidst all of that and a overnighthat markets we are getting futures coming online in about 60 minutes. Been a veryt has good past two weeks for global equities. The nikkei 225 flirting with 27,000. Kiwi dollar has been standing on the platform. They are not getting a lot of action. It has been about a weak dollar. About vaccineing reflation trade. Astrazeneca will run another global trial. Amid questions about the program and the level of protection. Initial test claims varying degrees of efficacy, sometimes as high as 90 . Our Deputy Managing Editor has the story. We have been asking a lot of the experts whether they can explain the gap between efficacy depending on the number of doses. No one has managed to come up with much of a thesis. Is that why there saying more trials are needed . Is that why they are saying more trials ar
Strengthening as asiapacific nations signed the Worlds Largest regional freetrade deal. President trump plains fresh hardline moves against china. M a at the double. Pnc financial agrees to buy a usa unit for 11. 6 billion and creating a european giant. Very good morning to you. Market,to bloomberg the european open go lets get the european open. Revenues coming in at 21. 4 3 billion euros, just a touch ahead in line with the estimate, reaffirming their cash flow guidance for the full year 2021, something perhaps to have that kind of visibility at this point. They say they are on track to ipo. This has been a talking point, what kind of money were they going to raise . There has been talk of perhaps a 4 billion euro ipo coming next year. , it hasthe same unit been valued by some at 20 billion euros. That would make it the largest listing in europe in more than three years. We will be keeping an eye on that. Vodafone said they are on track with that plan. Marketst to the broader and loo
Talks continue into today. The s p global is in advanced talks to buy ihs mobile markets in what would be one of the biggest deals of the year. A very warm welcome to the program, everybody. Just under one hour away from the start of cash equity trading for European Equity markets. Good to be back in the studio. Thats have a look at the future is and what they tell us about where we are headed this monday morning. Futures dont look great. European features move to the downside. The Asian Session has been fairly negative. These have been record months for global stocks. Rebalancing at the end of the month perhaps is part of the story here. We will talk to the market live team about this shortly. Lets take a look at what is going on on the gmm. Some of the weakest in the weakness in the Asian Session, down one point 3 on the msci asia pacific. Indonesia under pressure. A host of emerging markets under pressure. China outperforming a little today. The Manufacturing Activity we referenced
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
Belgium urge eu leaders to step up plans for a no brexit. 50 questions from german lawmakers. We will talk to a member of the team. Rd investigative a warm welcome to the program. U. K. Data. Datac sector net borrowing coming in this morning. Excluding the banking group. At 28. 3ber has come in billion pounds. That is below estimates. The estimate was for 30 billion. That are than anticipated. Really interesting aspect here payhat the Public Sector conversation will look like from here. We have a Spending Review coming wednesday of next week. In july, the chancellor made the point that the fed felt publicsector pay was needed. We are bracing for some effort from the treasury with regard to Public Sector pay. Squeeze in Public Sector pay perhaps coming. We will focus on that and it will be interesting to see the comments coming through or the numbers coming through on the banking sector. That is the u. K. Data. Markets. Futures looking a little bit mixed really if you take a global pict