The coming days will be pivotal in reaching a trade deal. Two of the most senior officials from the Brexit Campaign left Boris Johnsons inner circle last week. The chief negotiator says he will not be changing his position. Hurricane iota will be slamming into Central America today as the strongest hurricane of the year. Now a category five storm, it will bring torrential rain and catastrophic wind to an area still reeling from a storm two weeks ago. Global news 24 hours a day, onair, and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Im Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. Vonnie it is 1 00 p. M. In new york, 6 00 p. M. In london, and 2 00 a. M. In hong kong. Im vonnie quinn. Welcome to bloomberg markets. Here are the top stories we are following on the bloomberg and from around the world. U. S. Equities in the green after that positive news on a covid19 vaccine, sending shares tied to an economic reopening higher. Stayathome stocks l
Soaring today. Meg tirrell with details. The bar was very high for moderna after pfizers efficacy last week. Mad earn moderna met the 94 percent efficacy and will seek the fda emergency authorization in the coming weeks. We just talked to the doctor who has been leading the vaccine and Drug Development as part of operation warp speed about the significance of this moment, really seeing two vaccines in a row at this high level of efficacy heres what he said. Its an extraordinary outcome, frankly, to have two different vaccines tested in different conditions by two Different Companies developed independently yield very similar outcomes this gives a huge confidence into the data obtained and really suggests that the 90 percent and more efficacy is true and real. But of course, melissa, as were getting this extremely good news it comes at a time in the pandemic when weve never been seeing more daily cases, were seeing 140,000 a day on average right now. And were seeing more and more people
Billionaires index. Raise 30 5ting to billion in hong kong and shanghai. Aviation in australia. Alice springs emerges as the ideal place to store passenger planes left idle by the coronavirus. Shery. Shery breaking news out of south korea. We are getting the preliminary thirdquarter gdp numbers and we are seeing the quarter on quarter the economy has grown 1. 9 , which is beating expectations of 1. 3 and this is also coming after its first recession since 2003. We saw a contraction of more than 3 in the previous Second Quarter. Youre on your, still a contraction of 1. 3 but its a much smaller contraction than was expected and it is also a contraction that has eased from the previous quarter. We have seen growth and strength when it comes to south koreas exports and manufacturing industries. Thirdquarter manufacturing actually growing 7. 6 quarter on quarter when you look at the details in the gdp numbers. We have seen the rebound in china. South koreas biggest trading partner helping i
Nasdaq hits an alltime high as a combined value tops the gdp of the worlds thirdbiggest annomy, cash trade is just hour away. Here are your top headlines from the bloomberg terminal. Trump says tiktok must close its u. S. Operations by sold. Ber 15 unless it is he insist any sale must include a substantial payment to the u. S. Government. Global equities trade makes after a tech surge sent the nasdaq to a record. Isn amid a positive u. S. Pronounce and hinge from trump as he could face executive action on fresh virus release. Results easing continues infineon. The buyer warrants that the pandemic has stunted demand for nonessential medicines. We wait on numbers and it looks like we are getting numbers from British Petroleum right now. Annmarie, what do you see . Annmarie the dividend to the oil make it maker is cut. This is the First Time Since the bp oil spill in 2010. A historic moment in some senses for the oil giant. , 5. 25. Quarter dividend 10. 5. Second quarter came in at 6. 6 1
The markets are telling. Abigail, are you there . Abigail we are looking at the s p 500 down 3. 5 after the worst quarter of the s p 500 going back to 2008. The russell 2000 down 5 . Last quarter the worst quarter ever. The stop selling we have seen this year on the coronavirus crisis, human tragedy is continuing right into the Second Quarter. It seems today to be a combination of technical factors and key support levels broken late yesterday so the sellers remain in control. Plus the fears around the virus as it is hitting the u. S. , the peak ahead in terms of what the fallout could be through the human tragedy weighing on wall street today. David exactly. It is not lost to me that President Trump came out yesterday after the markets had closed and said this would be tough for the next two or three weeks. He said it would be one of the most difficult things the United States has ever faced. How much of the Market Reaction does not have anything to do with the economy, it is the virus