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Commodities having a positive session the far. Astrazeneca stock is actually down today. The s p is up i 014 . It is a monday. We get vaccine news. Generally it is taken quite well. Cyclicals have a bigger day. That seems to be the narrative that is establishing itself. We do have a euro that has weakened. The manufacturing pmi data out of the united states, and i know the ism is more important in terms of what people look at, but nevertheless, the manufacturing data was strong, and as a result, the dollar went up. It does seem to be something of a consensus now that the u. S. Is simply a few weeks behind europe. You only have to look at what is happening with the eurozone data today to get a sense of how far pmis can fall. Highs,off our earlier off by 0. 2 percent. Boris johnson is currently talking about covid. We are also possibly making some progress when it comes to the brexit story. Certainly today, the big driver is definitely that news on astrazeneca. Alix Boris Johnson saying
Amazon also boosting, well, going up, of course, and apple, man, youve seen them both over the last day and this morning perhaps no exception, later today, we get the apple phones, prime day has kicked off, carl it is a big day. And as it was for yesterday, in terms of the stocks. Indeed, were within 2 of all time highs on the s p, trying to get back to the september highs, jim but i wonder if you think the lead this morning are these loss provisions at jpmorgan. I am surprised positively i think what has happened is people arent spending, not borrowing, credit card losses, fine Small Business loans, i dont know where the people are that theyre not suffering. This is it is not a happy maybe jpmorgan is lending better i will say this, david noticed this, there will be a call that goes on, simultaneously when we talk about it, and that call is going to take the wind out of our sails, david, if we Say Something really positive because there will be one comment and some comment that comes
Tanzanias government of persecuting political opponents in the run up to this months general election Amnesty International says the law is being weaponized to crackdown on opposition figures and journalists twitter has flagged the tweet by u. S. President of trump as misleading after he claimed he was immune to coronavirus trumps also declared these free of covert 19 a week after testing positive press in june while the top u. S. Infectious diseases expert is accusing dog trumps Reelection Campaign of twisting his words on the coronavirus pandemic and to need to says the campaign ad has been edited to make it seem like hes indorsing the president s handling of the crisis. Hong kongs leader has postponed the annual policy address until after she travels to beijing carol lam says the citys economic recovery needs the mainland support and is calling for better integration with chinas development plans. The reason to delay the delivery of the policy address is because of the pandemic peop
Into the streets to end the unrest a power vacuum following sundays parliamentary election is still continuing but there are hopes in a move by 2 leading opposition leaders to join forces charles traffic is in bishkek weve now had a statement come through that is being made by the by speaker of Parliament Saying that parliament has to vote on the state of emergency in order for it to be legal we understand that the motions the session of parliament will be held tomorrow to do exactly that certainly the opposition are putting pressure on the government to follow the kind of legal parameters that this country is proud of setting up in recent years but as i say in the last few days the chaos that weve seen on the streets seems to suggest that all those legal parameters seem to be falling apart. Well talks are underway in a bid to end the conflict between army near in azerbaijan but the as area leader is ruled out making any concessions but the escalation meeting is the 1st diplomatic cont