Republican leader Mitch Mcconnell says President Trump is right to protest the vote cap. The u. S. Sanctions more people in hong kong over chinas increasing control. Washington has suspended its treaty with hong kong and ended reciprocal treatments on shipping. Haidi lets take a look at this market situation we are setting up for. It is firmly risk on after all the really bullish view overnight on account of the high efficacy from the biotech vaccine. Asx 200 trading higher by 1 10 of 1 . It is a handful of asiapacific markets there is or going into overboard territory. One of those is new zealand. We are seeing kiwi stocks of about 9 10 of 1 . We have the rbnz decision ahead of us this week but that market is up now for six consecutive sessions. Nikkei futures reversing pretty dramatically at the moment. Above looking at opening 25,000 for the first time in 30 years. Trading at thell highest since november 1991. A quick look when it comes to u. S. Futures as well. S p active futures u
Without follows the ultimatum. It was given by the federal side on sunday, calling for the ground fighters to lay down their arms and render. A statement did 30 that thousands of to grain fighters had surrounded just a couple of days ago to raise leadership with disputing these claims. They said that their fighters werent surrendering, and they also disputed the the governments claim that the city was in fact surrounded. Health experts have raised doubts about the covert. 19 vaccine produced by British Drug Company astra zeneca, an oxford university. They say a manufacturing error during the trial process makes it difficult to assess its effectiveness. German chancellor Angela Merkel says coronavirus restrictions could remain in place and well into next year. Bars and restaurants are closed, but schools and some shops remain open while still be mandatory and busy public areas. The football world is mourning. The death of argentinian Diego Maradona who has passed away at the age of 60.
But donald trump and his supporters a defiant the president s showing no signs of conceding i will that affect the transition of power at the white house. And as a by this president says that his military is taking control of the strategic city of shusha in the disputed region of the border cut about. And in sport tell here is ability to stage an advance safely in the era of coronavirus has been put to this past gymnasts from 4 countries that had a friendly metas japan hopes to show the world it can carry out next year salary olympics. A promise to restore the soul of America Joe Biden is delivered a message of hope and unity just hours after the clearing victory of the president ial election he spoke of ending my. Racial unrest of bringing a new approach to dealing with the pandemic thats devastated the country but by will faced challenges President Trump is refusing to concede that its threatening legal action that he hopes will overturn results that secured by his victory we have 2
To challenge records. Eu finance are set to meet today. Italy lays out fresh restrictions. Chancellor merkel urges germans to follow the rules. Bmp bounces back, the french Bank Benefits from volatility. A bullish tone on the numbers. If you look at the bottom year ago, andus a nine months, it is ahead of the target we gave for the outlook for the full year of 2020. We are under one hour until the start of cash equity trading. Good morning. Lets look at futures. Some real strength coming through futures markets sees the european picture up 0. 8 . If we look at the u. S. , we get a similarly positive picture. He saw strength yesterday. We have not erased losses from last week. The coronavirus is still very much with us. Yesterday the u. S. Equity markets recovered to some extent, and in europe, the cac 0. 2 . X up by today we see more of that positive trend. We can see positivity coming through in the asian session. Japan is closed, but we have the asian equity session fairly positive.
The confirmation means the top court now has a conservative majority of 6. 00 to 3. 00 alan fischer has more on what happens next she will take the judicial oath at the Supreme Court on tuesday it will be administered by chief Justice John Roberts and then she can get straight down to work which is going to be interesting because already just in the last few weeks the Supreme Court has had to decide on important questions of law over electoral law and it could well be that before the election on november the 3rd there are a few more cases they go to the Supreme Court equally bad it gets them to work immediately which is exactly what the republicans wanted the World Health Organization is warning the some countries are on a dangerous track in their battle against new surges of corona virus infections the agency admits a certain level of fatigue has set 10 but cautioned against giving up on the fight. President s vision tell you heard of one has called on talks to boycott french goods ce