Global news 24 hours a day on air and on bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. I am Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. I am vonnie quinn. Welcome to Bloomberg Markets here are the top stories we are following. Covid vaccine in the ether again. Pfizer says a final analysis of the chemical trials data shows its vaccine was 95 effective. Free han the 90 previously. Michael stubblefield, ceo of of and later we will speak to the ceo of intact financial. It would be the biggest acquisition of a u. K. Listed company this year. A quick check of the markets. For the most part, not doing much. The s p 500 unchained. The 10 year yield under 88 basis points. Weakk dollar index a dollar index. We have a slightly smaller dollar. Investors keeping an eye on vaccine development. Tor provides materials for vaccine candidates. The president and ceo Michael Stubblefield joins us for more. Michael, you provide Raw Materials for most of these vaccines
Features in the europe in europe and the u. S. Keep rising as the European Commission presents its Recovery Plan today. Jamie dimon places himself among the optimists who see a quick economic bounceback. Plus, stock deluge. More than 4 billion worth of equity offerings were announced just here in europe yesterday within 30 minutes of the closing bell. 2. 8llion dollars billion offering and is eager is the largest sofar this year. We are just under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe and in the u. K. Lets take a look now at futures. We are seeing once again green arrows after the big rallies that we saw the last couple of days. It looks like the risk on mood is set to continue. Dax futures up 0. 4 . The dax index here in frankfurt closed up yesterday more than 100 points. It closed up on monday more than 300 points, bringing it to over 11,500. Take a look at u. S. Futures as well. We are also looking at gains in u. S. Futures right now after the u. S. Equity ind
About synergies and the road ahead. What slowing economy . Chinese Online Retailer alibaba defies the slowdown of missed a amidst a trade war with sales surpassing expectations. First to our top story, it was a big week for tech ipos with fleet work and cloudflare filing to go public. The Web Security Company cloudflare has been in the news lately, given its relationship with controversial message board, 8chan. Three alleged gunman posted manifestoes on 8chan before three separate Mass Shootings in the united states. Cloudflare stop providing services after the latest shooting in el paso, left two dozen dead, largely taking the platform offline. So, is now the time to go public for cloudflare . I discussed it with Liliana Baker and will curtain. Like many other tech ideas, ipos especially in software, it is not profitable. It has a pretty good growth rate though. Its really trying to look at its competitor, fastly. Fastly went public earlier this year and is doing ok. There have been s
What slowing economy . Chinese Online Retailer alibaba defies the slowdown amidst a trade war with sales surpassing expectations. First to our top story, it was a big week for tech ipos with fleet work and cloudflare filing to go public. The Web Security Company cloudflare has been in the news lately, given its relationship with controversial message board, 8chan. Three alleged gunman posted manifestoes on 8chan before three separate Mass Shootings in the united states. Cloudflare stop providing services after the latest shooting in el paso, left two dozen dead, largely taking the platform offline. So, is now the time to go public for cloudflare . I discussed it with Liliana Baker and will curtain. Like many other tech ipos, especially in software, it is not profitable. It has a pretty good growth rate though. Its really trying to look at its competitor, fastly. Fastly went public earlier this year and is doing ok. There have been some sources who were asking me why cloudflare took thi
Apple brings home hundreds of billions of dollars in overseas cash to the u. S. We have the stories. Now to our lead. Amazon has narrowed the field for hq2, its second proposed headquarters in the u. S. 20 cities made the cut. Among them, new york, boston, chicago and austin. The project is expected to cost 5 billion and create 50,000 jobs. We caught up with our reporter for amazon along with intellas ceo. I wouldnt read too much into the three areas around washington, d. C. , because amazon is likely targeting labor pools, and those very often cross geographic lines. Even though that could simply be amazon focusing on that general area, but it has to negotiate with different political groups because of geographic boundaries. I know your firm has been digging into the tech hubs in the country. What did you find . Did many of them line up with what amazon has released . We looked at a lot of our data, which we have on almost half a billion people in terms of their skills and capabilitie