With its trial. There were two trial participants. One had efficacy of 90 . The other was lower than that, in the 60s. You average that, and it its about 70 . We will see how the market is moving on that. We want to welcome now to our bloomberg tv and radio on a sense Radio Audience astrazenecas executive vice president. It is really good to see you. When itways welcome, comes to good news over solid vaccines. The question it seems people want insert is talk about that 90 efficacy. That seems to have been a smaller group. Give me some insight into it. How many confirmed cases were there in that group . Try tot of all, let me summarize the headline data. Overall, we have seen efficacy about two efficacy of up to 90 and about half of those in the Clinical Trial. We have seen roughly 3000 volunteers in that cohort of the Clinical Trial, and it was highly significant that we saw less infections, and in fact, across all of the cohorts, you other the cohorts, whether you had the full dose, t
Bide 253 Electoral College votes, trump 214 biden needs 1 out of those gray states that you see there, which still have not reported their results yet. Were expecting new numbers from nevada any minute now. Were going to watch for that. Look at the state of play in arizona as we move around the country. You see its biden in the lead 50. 5 to 48. 1, a difference of just over 68,000 votes ive talked to some trump people they are optimistic that the tail end of the count is going to be protrump because they are votes dropped off in person. You see the margin in nevada 49. 3, trump 48. 7 86 of the vote in there thats where were expecting some new numbers today the biden margin there is narrow but we dont know exactly what vote is coming in and from where in the state and which counties its coming in were going to have to watch for that one pennsylvania, theres been counting in fits and starts and who is allowed to be in which polling play counting house to see the actual results being coun
Restrictions on the u. K. Looks to repair some of the economic damage in todays Spending Review. Words ofs back, the president elect joe biden as he introduces his Foreign Policy team. Janet yellen faces a tricky start, as Steven Mnuchin puts funding beyond her reach. Good morning. 6 00 a. M. In london, 10 00 a. M. Across the emirates. A jampacked show for you, including emirates president tim clark. He spoke to manus cranny about a host of issues in the travel sector. Also, likely an appearance from manus himself. What a day it was and a 24 hours it was, as chris weston put it, a nirvana has dissented over the scended over the market. Dow jones topping 30,000 for the first time. S p 500 index, we do have closing at an alltime high. We are losing a bit of momentum. Flat across the asian market and flat across u. S. Equity futures. We are seeing a steepening of the yield curve, not at the highs we saw recently, but we are seeing it steepening. Jp morgan this morning also saying 10 year
We celebrate the opening of the United Kingdom to sport. They can do it. We cant. Theres no question about that. Apple will come out today and do the virtual dog and pony, or whatever they do in the talk about new stuff at apple. And also, we look at the markets, which are up nicely. Jon ferro, there is sort of an effervescence to this monday, even off of the odd political news over the weekend. Jonathan i would say take a look at the german debt market. The 30 year yield has just turned negative once again on the session. Subzero german 30 year yields. I have no idea what the bond market is meant to tell you anymore, given the president of the ecb on the fed. What is the story you take away from a bond market that is in a central bank induced coma, and has been for several months . Tom i look at the swiss 20 year , but the german 30 year can tell you a lot as well. That tells you about the common nation of governor bailey with an essay for bloomberg news, really talking about the hors
Market. Three year and 10 year bond options coming in superstrong. Watch how that winds up performing. Time now for todays top market moving news from our new york team and washington team. We want to begin with economic the u. K. Economy shrinking on the 6 in march. Predicting what could be its deepest contraction in more than three centuries. Bloombergs Michael Mckee has more. Michael ask not for whom the bell tolls. It is the u. K. This time. Just one week under lockdown was still enough for a 2 contraction during the first quarter. As you mentioned, a 6 contraction during the month of march. Britain plunging into what may be its worst depression or recession, at least, since 300 years ago. Three centuries, according to those who have been figuring out. Tourism fell by 46 , air transport down 44 . Engine ofpending, the the economy, down 1. 7 in the first quarter, the largest drop since the financial crisis. We got data from the British Retail Consortium saying total sales down 19. 1