Tell us its a lot made one of the worst daily death tolls mulls a g. P. S. System to to track infected people we put that idea up for debate. Idea of g. P. S. Tracking is for the birds theyll never implemented by the way weve got to get back to work weve got to get back to work now because theyll be not going to come back if we let this continue much longer im worried that were. Storing up lots of problems for ourselves weve got to get out of this quickly and the way to do it is to keep these restrictions going to get people back to the. Friday 29th of january good morning from moscow kevin owen here then for the next 30 minutes with the latest from r. T. International good to have you with us so the news that moscow sent hundreds of thousands of doses of its sputnik the vaccine to latin america as the region increasingly bets on the russian jab for argentina its the 3rd delivery of the russian shots. With 5000000. 00 doses in total expected by the end of the month bolivias received 20
There is quite a lot going on in the markets mainly because of the threshold that markets crossed yesterday. Lets have a look at what that means for european stocks and even the global stocks rally pausing. We did have the best monthly gain in three decades. Investors awaiting a lot of Economic Indicators that could support the. Rally in risk assets. We have Consumer Confidence and of course personal income. We did have a gauge of asia pacific shares gaining. Above 45 alding barrel, and i also wanted to show you bitcoin and a second, because they were also, you know, within a sliver of a record high for bitcoin. At 19,130. It now lets get to the bloomberg first word news in london with leighann gerrans. Hi, leighann. Leighann good morning, francine. France will gradually start using its lockdown from sunday. Museums will follow suit from december 15, but restaurants will remain closed. President Emmanuel Macron says vaccinations could start at the end of december or in early january. M
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
Hsbcs turnaround picks up speed. The bank surges in hong kong as speculation grows around a return to Dividend Payments. Good morning, everybody. It is wednesday morning, just over an hour away from the start of cash equity trading. Lets look at futures. European equity markets, u. S. Equity markets of by more than 1 . And, of course, we have touched the levels key levels. The dow at 30,000, and the s p touching an alltime high at the close as well. Real strength coming into today, in futures suggest we have some upside to play for. Futures all point higher. European futures also to the upside. Ftse futures up by about 0. 3 . Broadly speaking, it is the same as the last couple of days. We are talking about vaccine optimism. The news about janet yellen picked up the appetite. It is into just stocks. We can look at what has happened through the asia session. Some of the markets in asia have turned increasingly negative as we have gone through the session. Parts of asia now retreating. Th
Europe, as you can see, down by 0. 2 . Not getting back ground within the markets. The oil sector has done very well of late. The Banking Sector has done very well of late. Just beginning to fade down today. The s p is down by 0. 3 percent, but it is a similar story. This value cyclical story, the rotation that has pushed money into those spaces, just fading a little bit. We are going into the ,hanksgiving Holiday Weekend basically four days youve got to hold these positions for, and i think a lot of people have decided they just dont want to do that. Eurodollar going a little lower in the last 10 minutes or so, basically back to flat. As the push higher has started to gain attention, there has been some concern that this is going to become an issue. Ive yet to hear it, but watch out for that story. Brent crude, 48. 16. Brent is still higher despite some profittaking elsewhere. I would have thought the best way of describing it, muted markets not getting back much ground, and certainly