Disease expert says covid19 will not be a pandemic a lot longer. , dr. Ing at an event today Anthony Fauci pointed to rapid progress in vaccine development. He did say the coronavirus could remain endemic for a long time. Generally, a pandemic is defined as an infection that puts the global population at risk, while an endemic disease is one that spreads in some areas and not others. There is a power struggle inside Prime Minister Boris Johnsons office that threatens to destabilize the british government. His communication director quit last night, raising concerns about the future of johnsons most powerful and controversial advisor, dominic cummings. All of this comes at a time when the Prime Minister is dealing with a new lockdown and brexit talks. Global news 24 hours a day, onair, and on quicktake by bloomberg, 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 in london, and 2 00
Data from the late stage kile of its Covid Vaccine and could reveal that data on how things work very soon were keeping our eyes on shares of southwest the airline saying it sees a deceleration in revenue improvements for the rest of the year, carl jim, well start with the balance between these covid numbers and the expectation that winter is going to be tough. But got to say some of the encouraging headlines out of curavac today saying that this might not be something we need every season because the mutation peers less frequent and more stable at basically refrigerator type temperatures. Look, im convinced that the people evolinvolved in this, i n well get good news from all these companies. Havent stopped the times. I expect good news from moderna. I expect good news from j j. I speexpect good news from glaxs behind, but astrazeneca. Here is the problem, carl, i keep thinking what happens, when do we get it when do we go to walgreens and just get it . And will everybody get it . I j
What we are get interesting the university of Michigan Sentiment survey. The headline number, way, way weaker than anticipated. That number coming in at 77. Thats down from 81. 8 last time around. When things are good well north of 100. The expectation was for 82. Current conditions, 85. 8. Thats actually ahead of expectations. But its the expectation number, the forwardlooking number here, that is really sharply lower. Coming through at 71. 3, alix, versus 79. 1 in terms of where the market, the economists had forecast that number. Down from 79. 2. A much more gloomy outlook for the u. S. Consumer from the u. S. Consumer. Alix no doubt. As covid cases are spiking everywhere here in the new york, it feels like we are headed for a School Shutdown as well. Get the read on what that means to the consirmse with ajay. Its always good to get your read. You have this more pessimistic expectation outlook from the consumer. Then you have rising covid cases and you have targeted regional shutdow
Lets break it down with mike mckee. Is a it is michael it little bit odd. On the headline, 100. 9 is lower than it was in the month of august or september, rather, when it was 101. 8. You would expect that maybe the present situation would be causing people concern because of the coming closures of some businesses as covid cases spike but the number comes in at 98. 9 at up from 104. 6, up from 98. 9. Turnabouting quite a in the way people are looking at the economy. The interesting thing here is this bemay see is reasonably good news for donald trump because if you are looking at the economy, stupid, as the old saying goes, you are looking at the economy as it is right now, and the economy as it is right now is better. The employment number is something Everyone Wants to look at in the set up to next week. Jobs number is an improvement, so those who think we are going to have a dismal jobs report next week might be in for a surprise, at least according to the underlying Consumer Sentim
Good Tuesday Morning welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt and we had losses at the open but were close to session lows. Dow is down. 3 . S p 500 below 3400 the name of the game, jon, q3 earnings really no stimulus headlines to speak of were watching covid19 levels mega cap, m a in the chip space. You know what im talking about. Absolutely. We telegraphed it here it s were going to begin with amd and that 35 billion planned acquisition of xilinx. Its the boldest bet in a remarkable run by amds chief executive officer dr. Lisa su taking over almost exactly six years ago in october 2014. Sue has taken shares of amd from 3 to, what, 79 as of this morning. More than 2,000 rise. Todays deal is another challenge to intel its a push for market share in data centers and just the latest move by sue to turn amd from an also ran into a leader. Hopefully you have got to know me a little bit im all about focus and execution. You know, what we set out the plans for amd over the