Astrazeneca is to resume vaccine trials amid questions about initial claims and the level protection with Global Buyers numbers on the up. But thanksgiving travelers defy warnings to stay at home. New data shows china is likely to miss targets this year. Imports were slow last month after septembers high, leaving the full year targets out of reach. We are seeing australian stocks starting off on the back after snapping three days of gains yesterday, just falling short of being able to erase those 2020 losses. But we are still on track for the best monthly gain on record, about 13 on november. Further positive news for the country when it comes to 28 consecutive days of no coronavirus cases from victoria. Looking at u. S. Futures right now, initial jab, if you will, cash markets were shot overnight. Not a lot of price action. Down about six points on your s p futures. Dollaryen, 104. 24. Limits to the upside. New york crude below 45. We will talk about opecplus later on. The outlook for
To the week. We are now focusing back on the virus rather than the vaccine. The german tenyear, some very weak inflation data out of germany today, sending yields lower. The price is coming up higher as well. You are also likely to have a scarcity factor coming into play as well. Yesterday indicating that the ecb is going to be on the bed, buying bonds. Hes got to think about what is going to happen in the bunds story as well. When you look at what is happening with treasuries, greece now has at the front end of its curve a negative yield. Just well on that for a moment. Greece is now a negative yielding country, albeit at the front end of the curve. Nevertheless, an amazing turnaround in a relatively short time. Alix an amazing eight year difference that makes. I was just reflecting on the sovereign debt crisis yesterday, so that is an amazing stat. New virus cases may be easing in some parts of europe as virus hotspots could offer a glimmer of hope and some of the worst hit countries
Message in the market that we need to Pay Attention to i think its interesting because last weeks the markets were so weak and everyone felt so despondent that this week was going to be just a replay of last week. I think that as the election is here today, people are settled, i think, into the fact that we will have a result i thisnk the market thinks we will have a result in the next 24 hours i think we all have fatigue from this election and i this i just havi i think just having a decision is what the market is pricing in now and after the decision, well go from there. I think the market is positive for clarity. It may not be clear but well see tomorrow what actually happens. Unless the market is getting ahead of itself. If you go by our cnbc states of play poll, only one in five think youre going to have an answer tonight on election night. The market seems to be acting over the next couple of days like were going to go to bed knowing who the next president will be or donald trump
Initiative by the Peterson Institute. Just in time for not just in time for a new u. S. Administration, or a new term of an old administration, depending on what happens. But in time for the stock taking going on in the world, on how to open the world economy, when the u. S. Has behaved as it has for the last four years, but also importantly, when we are all facing the vulnerabilities that came out of the pandemic. Before introducing my colleagues who will be speaking about memos to the white house, National Economic council, the c. E. A. council of economic advisors , the office of manufacturing and trade policy about industrial policy and the u. S. China , strategic dialogue, let me say a couple of words about the rebuilding project. We are very excited about this. It is open to everyone, in the sense that we wish to engage. In all of our and all of our publications and events are online. The world has been moving backwards since roughly 2008, both in terms of economic outcomes for h
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