The start of the week, a huge. Otation towards value the s p up by 0. 6 . The pound is positive. The departure of dominic ,ummings at 10 downing street going at the end of the year, setting up expeditions that may be a brexit reset and a deal as possible. Interestingly enough, we are seeing a continuing move in what we are seeing in the bond market. Bonds are bid today. He was there moving back down, unsurprising and what we heard from Christine Lagarde yesterday. More broadly, the virus definitely back in charge. The vaccine news at the beginning of the week, the virus news at the end of the week. Alix such a great way of framing that. Lets break down the virus issues more. The global coronavirus case is now topping 52. 9 million, deaths climbing to 1. 3 million. Focus is on europe and how it is addressing the virus. Joining us is Bloomberg Opinion columnist ferdinando juliano. The story in the u. S. Is that you guys are doing targeted lockdowns, and it is working, and the cases are l
S p by 11, nasdaq up by about 42 there were a few areas of the market yesterday that continued to outperform including the small caps russell 2000 coming off an alltime intra day high. And then there is the khodow trs trading at a record high and right now it looks like the ten year is yielding just about 0. 8 the transports a lot of times, they are an early indicator of what is to come, but maybe more difficult to glean what is happening this time given the overall virus situation. Yeah, it is and it is really not things Like Airlines so much driving the transports actually fedex and u. P. S. Are arguably kind of stayathome plays and they are also big components of the transports so really just kind of gone sideways in the last day or so, not much of a pullback just yet. So well very to see how that develops and in this context especially with the White House Task force painting a bleak picture on the near term outlook. The most recent report warns that there is, quote, now aggressive
And only talk about the virus, the vaccine developments, when there is not much thats new. Why do this at all on a friday evening . I cant answer that. Its good to get out of the house, i guess. Been announcement about pfizer come a couple of weeks earlier, which to be clear, doesnt appear the science would have allowed, im sure we would be talking about a different political landscape. Even with that bad timing. It is certainly an achievement for this administration to have been able to help accelerate some of these vaccines, like the vaccineng moderna into the final stages, and hopefully the level of emergency approval and access to the American Public by the end of the year. That remains a very big deal if it does go that way. Emily can you clarify for the record what pfizers involvement was in operation warp speed . They did not get money from the government, saying they misrepresented the involvement. What do we know to be the truth about that . Question, andeat its important we c
And brought to you today by your television provider. Peter Reed Hastings and erin meyer are the coauthors of this book, no rules rules. Mr. Hastings is also the ceo of netflix. What is netflix and what do you do . Reed netflix is the worlds leading entertainment service. We produced Television Series and movies. Weve been around 20 years and have about 200 million families around the world who are members. Peter is there a connection to the 1998 companies where you had 900 movie titles and 30 employees . Rita theres a little connection to that. We started about 22 years ago, mainly dvds in the united states, competing with blockbuster. That was a full decade, really, we were competing with video stores dressed in the u. S. Thats 2007 when we started streaming, roughly the same time youtube did. Peter erin meyer, how did you get involved in this project . Erin i study cultural differences in the workplace. I am a professor. On the internet way at the beginning it said things like adequ
Happyorning everyone, monday. Pmis are coming in. Those numbers and go straight to the market and have a look at the positive news out there and how market traders are taking this. Falling. Area a touch worse than expected. Is a touchng pmi better than expected. Interesting to see the difference between services and manufacturing. What thek at the market wants to focus on, its after that vaccine says preventing 70 of cases. Global stocks are advancing. Focusing on the encouraging news from vaccines across the world. The astrazeneca one done with oxford is not as efficacious as the other one but you have to keep it at a much higher temperature which distribution could be that much easier. Not at all discouraging. Good morning. Over in the u. S. , president elect joe biden is aideing for his longtime as secretary of state. Thats according to several bloomberg sources. Former Hillary Clinton aide Jake Sullivan is expected to be National Security advisor. Could come ast soon as tomorrow. R