Worse preventative measures. Has been the hardest hit of the region iran has been the hardest hit in the region. A postbrexit trade agreement were abruptly disrupted today when one European Union official involved in the talks tested positive for the coronavirus. Michelleief negotiator barnier said he would suspend talks with u. K. For a short period. The two sides are trying to reach an agreement by next week to allow time for a deal to be ratified before the end of the year. Global news 24 hours a day, onair, and on bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Im Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. Vonnie it is 1 00 p. M. In new york, 6 00 p. M. In london, and 2 00 a. M. In hong kong. Im vonnie quinn. Welcome to bloomberg markets. Here are the top stories we are following on the bloomberg and from around the world. Transition to the white house. Members of the president elects team are set to be contacting staff of the congressional app
By middecember. G20 discusses the virus and remedies. President trump. The worlds first travel bubble burst. Kongsingapore ehrlich is being postponed by at least two weeks. Host calling and a question the fragility of the travel bubbles. And how fragile this travel revival could be. Stocks extending the weekly decline towards the end of the week. We are looking at more optimism going into the start of trading in asia. Kiwi stocks up by 0. 4 . Goingle bit of advance into the start of trading. And we are seeing dollaryet continue to decline. Dollar weakness continues to play out. Vaccinations when it comes to the vaccine progress we have seen against covid19 could be administered in three weeks if they are given the green light from the fda. There are still questions about how poor countries will be given access. We are in washington. How close are we to get some rgency off to raise the emergency authorization in the next few weeks . Duringeems a could calm an emergency meeting. When you
Businessweek is really taking everyone by storm. Tom they mentioned all the right schools as well. I think it is true probably in every urban area, but after real estate it is the focus of new york city, what to do with the cherubs in not only the private schools, but i would also mention the stateoftheart anything,ools are, if even more competitive. The schools with a heritage up in boston, boston latin. They are just as hard to get into as the other fancy schools. Do spend a lot of time thinking about education for our kids, and these fouryearolds actually have to do tutoring, but also applications and interviews to get into these kindergartens. I find that fascinating. We will talk about Central Banks much more. Thats get to bloomberg first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika President Trump has fired a Homeland Security official who contradicted his unfounded claims about election fraud. Christopher krebs is a former Microsoft Official who the president named to a top security job.
President tells bloomberg positive news on the vaccine isnt a major game changer for its forecaster. She says the focus remains on stopping the economic slump from worsening. Judy sheldons nomination to the fed board is blocked. Set tome as the sec is move ahead for plans that could delist chinese companies. A warm welcome to the show. Welcome back. I hope you had a good rest become because you come back to many warning signs. From the equity markets, sell the top. Markets, the dean of debt a little to get suspect on distressed debt markets. Marie. Orning, ann annmarie good morning. When this level of optimism is high, there is usually more room for disappointment and that seems to be what we are seeing. I said facing reality. You had a good term of categorizing that reality and for me, Christine Lagarde saying the vaccine is not a game changer because it is not going to change in terms of the economic fallout we are seeing. If we take a look at where we trade this morning in the monda
Forecast. We will bring you that interview with the ecb president. And the ax falls again at goldman. The bank prepares to cut jobs for the second time in three months as the focus returned cost cutting. Very good morning, everybody. Welcome to the program. Lots of breaking news to get to. Lets have a look at some of these numbers coming through. Have the numbers coming through from the shipping business which transports 1 5 of the worlds containers so really interesting insight into the way the Global Economy is spinning and the shipping industry in particular. We are getting the numbers through. We already heard from them last night about how they were upgrading their guidance, raising their fullyear guidance so that already sets a positive tone. They said they will initiate a new Share Buyback around 10 billion danish krone. That program will run for 15 months. E will be speaking to the ceo that is the conversation at 7 30 u. K. Time, so in around 25 minutes time. Let me get to some