The new Lockdown Craze sweeping the globe. Welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. Major trials of a new vaccine have shown its effective against some new variants of covid 19, helping to reduce fears that they might prove resistant. Novavax is an american jab but its being produced in the uk. Its also easier to roll out than some previous vaccines since it doesnt need to be kept at ultra low temperatures. The news came amid a deepening row between another vaccine maker, astrazeneca, and the European Union over shortages. Our medical editor fergus walsh reports. Once again, science has triumphed in the fight against coronavirus. The Us Firm Novavax has released results of its british trial showing the first proven efficacy against the new, more contagious uk variant. There were more than 15,000 volunteers on the trail throughout the uk. Over half the cases of covid recorded were the result of the new variant. The results showed the vaccine was 95 effective agains
Amazon partners with an old text stalwart. That is blackberry. How they plan to revolutionize tech. Those stories in a moment. The u. S. Stocks posting another record high amid news of new stimulus talks. They are progressing with a plan to pass by the weekend. Abigail doolittle has more on that. Also, i know you have been following the latest Earnings Results out of snowflake. Shares down after hours a bit. This is a big test for them after their blockbuster debut. Abigail it is. Lots of big movers relative to earnings after hours come snowflake being one of them. With snowflake, what you are referencing is that huge ipo, biggest ipo of the year back in september. This is their First Quarter as a publicly traded company, so they are finding out what it is about to these shares are absolutely plunging in the after hours, down 19 . This is an Application Software company, up just 37 year to date. They have struggled a little bit, and in this quarter they posted a wider loss than expecte
Announce the launch of its 5g. Power lunch starts right now tyler, thanks lets look at shares of apple. Remember, they were up 6 yesterday. They were down about 1 as the iphone event began last hour they are now down 3. 5 so you really took a turn lower in the last few minutes there. Josh lipton is standing by as the event continues. Josh the event did begin here. Four new models so far introduced so apple is saying the latest and greatest technology, billing it as the smallest, thinnest, lightest 5g phone in the world, thats at starts at 699 and then the next model will start at 799. Then there are those that want the most Cutting Edge Technology for them apple offers the iphon 12 probe and iphone probe max. Theyre powered by 814 bionic chip that should mean a real boost in performance. New camera system in these phones thats very important to consumers. New Wireless Charging system as well it not just iphones either they also did announce a smaller, less expensive version of their ho
Fight the virus. This as deaths in the u. S. Surge past 50,000. The numbers are Getting Better in spain and italy but seem to be getting worse in places like russia and germany. The World Health Organization also forming an International Alliance to ensure that vaccines and treatments are distributed fairly. We are just ahead of a big week in earnings. I want to bring in taylor riggs. Sammys buoying the markets. What were you watching . Taylor exact reversal of yesterday. Outperformance within the tech sector but we are still lower for the week. We are waiting a bunch of being earnings coming next week. We got some chipmakers reporting this week. I will also talk about crude. Monday and tuesday, you had crude go below zero for the first time ever. Some of the losses we saw on monday and tuesday, even though the Energy Market rebounded, not enough to offset the big losses in crude. Contract still on pace for their worst week ever. You are starting to see some of that pessimism. Pandemic