Saying china is the greatest threat to democracy worldwide. The u. S. The bloomberg u. S. Dollar index. Crude getting a lift after an opec agreement that came through. Theyre going to be keeping curbs in place in terms of production but we could see on a month by month basis some of those curbs being removed. Agrees to ease cuts more gradually. Gold about 1 10 of 1 lower. Bitcoin using some of its sheen and declinings extensive 1 . With all that in mind, lets find out what is happening in new york. Karina we start with the news on pfizer. It slumped on reported may ship only half of the vaccines it planned to this year. Issues supply chain will cut it to 50 million. Anthony found she is taking the u. K. For rushing to clear the pfizer vaccine. Moderna claims it shows what it claims is durability. Republican Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell is calling for a smaller more focused stimulus package for the u. S. Economy as democrats scale back demands to find a route forward. The base
The last hour after fed chair Jerome Powell and treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin did the same in a hearing before congress. It comes as the cdc panel is meeting right now at this very moment to decide exactly who will be the top priority to get the first doses of the coronavirus vaccine. And then who gets to be in the levels after that. We are going to get you a live report. And one russell 2000 company is making a huge transformation from an Artificial Intelligence chatbot giant to the bank of the future. The ceo of live person introduces us to bella, the banker with a twist. Youve got to hear this. If cryptos are too cryptic for you, you are missing out on the bitcoin boom. The ceo and cofounder of chainalysis is here to explain how he makes Bitcoin Investment secure for everyone from wall street whales to the u. S. Government and irs. You got to meet this company. We are t minus 58 minutes from the cdc voting on just who should get the first batch of covid19 vaccines. The belief is
We will bring you fast money trades straight ahead. We start off with a zombie ap k apocalypse on wall street. Many icons are among the walking dead like macys carnival, delta. Nearly 200 companies have joined the zombie rank since march. Total debt obligations nearing 1. 4 trillion dollars a lot of these names are names we talk about trading on this show how should we start thinking about this before we get into the walking dead, i want to point out, a great job by our crack staff leading with the cranberry zombie, and delores was the founder of the zombie. I may have gone with Something Like this if the crack staff is listening. We are now two minutes into the show its important to point this out because folks at home are paying attention apparently more important than actually trading our first topic in what is known as the ablock of the show. Its not more important its important we will talk about ablock and Zombie Companies last night we talked about macys and we talked about the
Harder to provide treatment to people with serious symptoms. This is the right time to issue a red alert. Its a declaration of an emergency in medical care. Our First Priority will be protecting life the governor says the occupancy of the prefectures hospital beds set aside for serious cases is expected to soon reach 70 . On top of the call for people to stay home, officials plan to extend their requests for bars and restaurants to close early until december 15th. Officials here in tokyo reported 533 new cases on thursday. To date, the number of people who have tested positive in tokyo has exceeded 42,000. 54 are currently in serious condition. Tokyos hospitals have 150 beds for serious cases. The metropolitan government is asking them to increase that to 200. Officials say they want to prevent the spike in severe covid19 cases from affecting treatment for other diseases. Theyre also asking medical institutions to allocate more beds to coronavirus cases that are not serious. Authoritie
Demand under continued pandemic pressure s p global has reportedly put 44 billion on the table to buy londonbased ihs markets and tie up the data giants and mark the largest deal of the year shares jump after the german chip maker confirms advance take over talks with taiwans globwas it could create a leader in the Global Semiconductor space well, good morning, everybody. Welcome to street signs and happy monday it is the start of a new trading week, a week of new possibilities. But before we get into the show, i just want to take you to our main story thats hit overnight, and that is to do with china so, beijing has said that it hopes the u. S. Will not build barriers to cooperation. That was in response to a report that the Trump Administration is preparing to blacklist top chinese chip maker smic and oil major chinook. Washington will restrict access to customers by adding two companies to its list of firms owned or controlled by the Chinese Military according to reuters. Cnooc said