Washington ramps up pressure on beijing. Goldman sachs raises billions for a new fund to focus on private equity. The move comes amid rising interest in secondary investing. Haidi lets look at what the day has in store at the sydney open. We are expected a muted start to trading in asia after downward pressure coming from the u. S. Session overnight. Restrictions continue to take place to curb the the Coronavirus Spread we are starting to see accelerate again, even as we get further good news on the vaccine front. Trading marginal. The u. S. Dollar held to the lowest we have seen since april 2018. We are also seeing the aussie dollar on the back foot. Nikkei futures look like they will see a muted start to trading. Shery lets get started with good news on the vaccine front. Pfizer says final Data Analysis shows its covid shot is 95 effective. The ceo of its german partner told bloomberg about plans for mass production. Our goal is to supply up to 50 million doses by 2020 which andd go
Watering 5 billion. The implications of unrest, weeks of protest and hong kong. The effect on the citys top names. Shery we are seeing pictures being pressured down half a percent on that news that the white house is halting any licenses for businesses to work. Ith hallway huawei this after a stellar performance. Green. Ector was in the the s p 500 was able to erase this weeks loss. Nasdaq two and a quarter percent. The Energy Sector leading those rises, gaining ground with news that saudi arabia was in touch orbital in and order to slow the decline. Lily catching the eye of investors. Lets see how we are shaping up in asia. Pointing to a mixed open. Futures down almost. 5 , but in sydney, seeing a little bit of positivity. That sentiment is strongerthanexpected and it was shortlived. Bloomberg reporting that the u. S. Is planning to publish that final list in chinese imports. They plan to hit with tariffs this week or early next. Reporting the white house is holding off the decision o
bringing the total to 15. scientists say they are still unsure what s causing the outbreak but they believe it can be transmitted between humans, as well as from animals to humans. now on bbc news, dateline london. hello and welcome to the programme that brings together leading uk columnists, bbc specialists and the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline london. it s been a week either of sequels or of re runs. in the uk, we re waiting for sue gray again and her report on partying in government whilst the country was in covid lockdown. borisjohnson and the european commission are wrestling over northern ireland post brexit again. covid surges and an authoritarian government in asia locks down again and polling made australia s politicians nervous about the outcome of this weekend s election yes, you guessed it again. in the studio are janet daley american by birth, british by choice whose weekly colu
hello and welcome to the programme that brings together leading uk columnists, bbc specialists, and the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline london. it s been a week either of sequels or of re runs. in the uk, we re waiting for sue gray again and her report on partying in government whilst the country was in covid lockdown. borisjohnson and the european commission are wrestling over northern ireland post brexit again. covid surges and an authoritarian government in asia locks down again and polling made australia s politicians nervous about the outcome of this weekend s election yes, you guessed it again. in the studio are janet daley american by birth, british by choice whose weekly column appears in the sunday telegraph, the irishjournalist suzanne lynch, who writes for the politicos brussels playbook and newly returned from filming in cambodia, the bbc s asia pacific editor, celia hatton. welcome
Sydney. Money supplier beating expectations. The Deleveraging Campaign was expected to intensify once it got past. Take a look at this chart. Is one aspect of the problem that policymakers are facing. Chinas achilles heel. That gdp growth is being outmuscled by the pace of the debt buildup. We got that in one sense from the numbers that came out. Financing more than expected. That brought us into the money supply number increasing more than expected from that 8. 8 the previous month. Debt buildup this continuing to take place in china. We are starting minutes out from the opening of the china market. Taiwan coming online. Dave is taking a look for us. David it was a little bit surprising. We were talking about these numbers coming out. Rethinking how long these oil curbs need to be in place. Maybe they will rethink about bringing that forward. We are just getting the oil price under way. Your subtitle is right here. Essentially, there is a crack. Two weeks weeks to fix. Asiapacific, ap