Host joining us this morning is dr. Georges benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association. Lets begin with the new booster that was announced by the fda and cdc for covid19. What should americans know about this . Guest thank you for having me. Americans should know covid is still with us but we have much better tools we have developed over the last 2. 5 years. We know more about the character and the way the body functions. We have better teams and we know more about how to protect we have better vaccines and better therapeutics. We know more about how to protect ourselves and treat ourselves should you get exposed to the virus. Host if you get exposed today, what is the virus like, and is the booster needed . Guest i believe the booster is needed. It is an updated vaccine. What happens to most people is, we now that even if you had some degree of protection because you have been vaccinated or were exposed to the virus and are affected, in that environment the
What does that mean . Hello and welcome to bloomberg daybreak asia. Im haidi lun. Betty i am betty liu at the mobile headquarters in new york. Weve got one i clearly watching what is happening in the korean peninsula. In the meantime, we are watching what is happening here in tax reform and u. S. Markets. It looks like tax or formal possibly passed by the end of the year and markets will move higher,. I want to pull up a chart that shows perhaps a little bit of a warning sign. It just shows you the valuation of snp stock versus the euro stoxx 600uro companies. You can see how the valuation so muchinues to widen, so that it has some investors saying even if stocks rally, maybe there is better value in other parts of the world, particularly europe. Maybe it is europes time to shine next year. Haidi absolutely. It is interesting, this idea of momentum and sentiment driven rally we have seen. Haveore record highs we seen overnight as we get closer to closing out the year. Usuallyet period
Ride still means it is far too early to say hello. Welcome to bloomberg daybreak asia. I have some breaking news. South korea data coming in. Gdp numbers first. The final reading of the Third Quarter readings. They have been quite bullish in the preliminary numbers driven by exports growth out of south korea. 1. 5 are the final numbers, slightly better than the preliminary figures. Also, above what the preliminary numbers werent that were reported earlier. Inflation also coming out pretty tepid. A decline of 0. 7 . A retraction. No change was expected month on month. And year on year inflation falling short of forecasts, 1. 3 . It was estimated to be 1. 8 . And core cpi year on year toling short, 1. 2 compared the estimation of 1. 7 . Happening asion is the bank of korea raises things by 25 basins basis points. Have raised said we rates but it is still very accommodative. Paul it will be interesting to see what the bank of korea goes to next especially considering the weaker than expec
Speaker paul ryan had to quell a revolt. From bloombergs global headquarters, miami new york. Cannot in the new york we are just past 6 00 p. M. Not a huge rally in stocks but all the major indexes in green. We have the s p, also up one third. The nasdaq gaining just over 0. 5 . The joy from the u. S. Not being spread to new zealand as they have been training for a couple hours. The kiwi dollar, little change against the greenback. We are up a couple points at the moment but it is hard to get the idea so early because we have the staggered open in australia with stocks trading in alphabetical order. The aussie dollar unchanging. It did take a bit of a pounding this week with weaker than expected gdp and trade data. If we take a look at japanese futures, trades are out of chicago very slightly higher. Nikkei futures also looking a little bit healthier. The japanese yen strengthening against the dollar. Lets get the first word news. Thank you paul. Erupted across palestinian territory in
Made on thursday. Welcome to daybreak asia. Im paul allen. Im betty liu in new york. Story in thejor markets. In the very early morning, leading up to the meeting and digesting everything janet yellen was saying. He bump up in growth. This forecast and Economic Growth here. The job market is still continuing to kind of slug along percenting that three forecast for 2018. A lot of scratching the heads as well. We have strong broad jobs growth. And theres Janet Yellens legacy to think about as well. I have a wonderful piece of trivia for you here. Finalll have the lowest Unemployment Rate of any fed chair since William Martin of 1970. We can have a newfound knowledge of said history. Fed history. I found that out from someone else, by the way. Weve been trading for a couple hours now. Slightly weaker, up. 2 , the kiwi dollar breaking above . 70. Trading in australia just getting underway. It is difficult to get a gauge on how the asx is performing because we have the staggered open here.