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
By middecember. G20 discusses the virus and remedies. President trump. The worlds first travel bubble burst. Kongsingapore ehrlich is being postponed by at least two weeks. Host calling and a question the fragility of the travel bubbles. And how fragile this travel revival could be. Stocks extending the weekly decline towards the end of the week. We are looking at more optimism going into the start of trading in asia. Kiwi stocks up by 0. 4 . Goingle bit of advance into the start of trading. And we are seeing dollaryet continue to decline. Dollar weakness continues to play out. Vaccinations when it comes to the vaccine progress we have seen against covid19 could be administered in three weeks if they are given the green light from the fda. There are still questions about how poor countries will be given access. We are in washington. How close are we to get some rgency off to raise the emergency authorization in the next few weeks . Duringeems a could calm an emergency meeting. When you
Regionally, as we saw a setback moments ago from Johnson Johnson. They are pausing the study here on their vaccine after one of their patients fell ill. We did of course look at, when it comes to the china 10 year, we are expecting a big dollar bond sale as well, and details as soon as wednesday. Still Holding Around the 670 level at the moment. Lets look at the rest of the market as we count down to those numbers out of china. Ratentioned in indonesia decision later today, jakarta coming online just slightly higher. Because ofpressure vaccine setbacks, and india as well, we could see a lower open in mumbai. A big power outage yesterday impacted volumes. We also saw inflation surge in september. We are watching fx as well, the dollar pretty steady and the rest of asia affects fx lower after we saw weakness in the chinese currency as well, the pboc made it cheaper to short the renminbi. We are watching the china and aussie tensions ramp up again. We see brent crude and new york crude, p
I think it is a mistake that because we helped the wealthy we shouldnt do it. The reason they did it is because of that. If you dont lift up the economy, the people who suffer the most are the poor. The fed is thinking about how do we lift up the economy they shouldnt hurt a wealthy person to make them feel good. They are doing the right thing now which is to let them get through this there are going to be serious situations thats kind of a secretary dairy problem right now. We should get through this and kind of unwind some of this stuff wisely there are huge incomes you could have negative imcome tax, fix education there are a lot of things we should be doing to help the poor federal policy is not the thing they should focus on letting the economy grow they dont focus on Growth Strategies they have policies that dont help growth. If you had 1 growth in the United States over 10year period, that would be 4 trillion gdp thats like 10,000 a person extra. That pays for a lot of social sa
Budget set to be outlined in parliament today. Tesla takes the trade war in its own hands. Suing the u. S. Government and Robert Lighthizer over the tariffs over imports from china. A warm welcome lets kick off the show with fresh numbers out of germany the Business Climate for the eve owe since september has come in a touch light. Current conditions 89. 2 for spent versus 89. 5. So just a touch light of expectations in terms of the expectations component, came in at 97. 7 versus forecast of 98. Slightly weaker but generally similar to what was expected the august numbers have also been revised we have the Expectations Index at 97. 2. These september figures and the forward looking part of this index has come in at 97. 7 for the month of september as business morale rises. This comes after data yesterday. The pmi flash for september showing that manufacturing in germany continuing to improve. Services contracted. Dropping below the 50 Mark Services trends in the economy we are going to