Vaccine. Finding a compromise. Agrees to slowly add more Oil Next Year after days of an stoxx. The Saudi Arabian energy miss mr. Process excruciating. Happy friday. It is excruciating for some of those journalists who stayed up late for that press conference. Look at where we trade friday morning. The s p 500 a bit over concerns roll outow pfizer will that vaccine. We are pushing a little higher this morning on the futures. Is this durable . What stands out is a record in the u. S. , a grim record of high infections as well as hospitalizations. Hospitalizations at the highest rate we have seen the entire time this pandemic. With rates increasing, that means more lockdowns of economies in cities and states. Gavin newsom in california warning california they could be next. The labor market, we will get a read on today. The november jobs report will come out today. Lets take a look at brent crude, testing 50 a barrel, 1. 9 percent higher. You had the opec plus meeting yesterday. Brexit ta
France threatens to get out of the rescue plan altogether. 11,000 jobs slashed, the german giant fights for survival. Welcome to the program. Looking at the futures, reflecting the way the european and u. S. Equity markets closed yesterday. Futures down in europe, mixed in the u. S. , reflecting what we saw yesterday were the u. S. Wobbled into the close at the end of the session. New york schools closing seems to be the factor. Breaking news, some commentary from astrazeneca in connection phasehase two, not the three news we have been waiting for. That is expected to come within weeks. This is more detail on the phase two data. They are confirming the vaccines immune response in older adults, that is crucial considering who is most vulnerable to the virus. The lancet is publishing the findings. A lot of stuff we have heard already from phase three trials more advanced than this from other drug companies. It has not been peerreviewed or in journals. We are getting the phase two study,
Budget copper mise. This is going budget compromise. Eu budget compromise. That is going to be one of the stories we are focusing on next week. Brexit talks are a difficult place, according to one u. K. Official. We will watch carefully that story over the weekend. We will see what happens monday morning. Aroundare higher, up by 0. 4 . The payrolls seem to have provided a reason to believe that stimulus is coming. It is interesting to see what is happening there. Bonds on the other side of the atlantic to where i am now, we are up to yield highs, march highs. An aggressive move we are seeing stateside. The pound is 1. 3475. Brent crude catching a bid, just sub 50. 49. 08 is where we sit now. Alix lets get to the latest on the coronavirus pandemic. We learned yesterday pfizer scaledback vaccine targets for 2020 because they ran into difficulties getting all the materials it needs. They say they have fixed that problem now. Joining us now is sam fazeli, Bloomberg Intelligence senior phar
To work our way through. Let me start with the Michigan Consumer sentiment index. Headline number coming through at 76 point nine, broadly in line with expectations of 77. Current conditions at 87, i had of expectations. At 75. Tions youve got the difficult situation i think the consumer has got to figure out. Do i worry about the here and now and worry about the impact the virus is going to have over the next weeks and months, or do i think about what the vaccine is ultimately going to deliver . Like the markets, i think the consumer is probably having to balance those factors out. Kailey i want to point out housing data as well. The Housing Market has been particularly strong. That does continue. A pace of 909,000, versus the estimate of 975,000. We are getting october personal spending data, and for more on that as Bloomberg International economics and policy correspondent Michael Mckee to break it all down for us. Michael michael it is may the most important number of a lot of numb
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