Washington ramps up pressure on beijing. Goldman sachs raises billions for a new fund to focus on private equity. The move comes amid rising interest in secondary investing. Haidi lets look at what the day has in store at the sydney open. We are expected a muted start to trading in asia after downward pressure coming from the u. S. Session overnight. Restrictions continue to take place to curb the the Coronavirus Spread we are starting to see accelerate again, even as we get further good news on the vaccine front. Trading marginal. The u. S. Dollar held to the lowest we have seen since april 2018. We are also seeing the aussie dollar on the back foot. Nikkei futures look like they will see a muted start to trading. Shery lets get started with good news on the vaccine front. Pfizer says final Data Analysis shows its covid shot is 95 effective. The ceo of its german partner told bloomberg about plans for mass production. Our goal is to supply up to 50 million doses by 2020 which andd go
5 00 right now. Covid cases in a nationwide surge. This map shows much of the midwest covered in red meaning a widespread number of new cases. Dark orange shows a significant surge. Thats most of the east coast along with parts of texas which just hit 1 million cases. California a lighter orange but cases here are also on the rise. The cdc has put out its strongest guidance yet on mask wearing citing growing evidence a mask can help protect a person wearing it. The cdc says adopting universal mask wearing policies could help future help prevent future lockdowns. As San Francisco struggles to get ahead of rising covid cases, leaders reopening rolling back plans. Today in the bays Cierra Johnson is live in San Francisco to explain why the city is hardly alone here when it comes to new concerns and confusion, cierra. Reporter yes, good morning. Mayor london breed made that announcement shes pausing some of that reopening, and that includes halting the reopening of indoor learning for high
Lets get to dohm. Were watching markets for the s p 500 that have posted about a 1 gain over the last three months and for those people who are keeping track of some of the election markets statistics, its a big number. In the three months prior, some analysts and strategists note that if the market is higher in the three months before an election, its the incumbent party that wins. Well see if that trend plays out. You can see for the s p 500 in that three month span we got a 1 gain entirely because of just today. You wonder whether or not that could play into some of those associations or correlations people talk about with regard to markets and the election overall. But beyond that, there are some interesting themes developing over the course of the past week if you take a look at the outperformers and underperformers, many of them have to deal with the cyclical and value oriented Sectors Technology versus Communication Services, there is a bit of outperformance in Communication Ser
The bell apple, facebook, amazon, and alphabet we will also get results from starbucks, twitter, act vision and many more names. We will bring you all the results as soon as they hit. Analysis as well to help you figure out how what to do with the stock. Speaking of earnings in joel we will speak with the brandnew ceo of tapestry, her first interview since taking the job that stock soaring after getting a beside on sales in china music mike tracking the broader markets, Steve Liesman, and meg tirrell has the latest on the covid emts troo and vaccines mike, talk to us about the comeback we are seeing. A respectable bounce. Coming into the day the market was stretched to the downside after the declines not just of yesterday but the past couple of weeks. We had lost 119 in the s p alone yesterday. We are regaining not quite half of that. 3,200ish is the level just about everybody is looking at. It isnd responding, but definitely not necessarily in a decisive way bond yields up today reall
Themselves as a platform investors seem to be buying it with that stock up 13 this week it just keeps going up nearly 4 today and it laid out the case for longer term growth and ironically, it will come from the good old phone, right a lot of that conference was focused on the zoom phonewhich basically enables you to take it wherever you go. And there is s ais an axios rept saying that uber may be looking to celebrate its elevate unit, the moon shot flying taxi unit it reflects obsession with profit ability, but i might argue that it reflects his obsession to please sharehold s shareholders backing away from some of the longer term ambitions such as freight, elevate now and as well as selfdriving cars, it does raise a few questions. Yes, it may give the share price a bump in the short term, about where does it position uber lon term yeah, when these companies dont have a clear business Start Talking about that were a Media Company or a Helicopter Company or were a freight company, real