Very much for joining us and my guests here in the studio in the burlington are professor Susanna Schreiber from the german Ethics Council, who says, in theory, we know how best to distribute limited supplies of the vaccine, the real challenge is putting these ideas into practice. Also with us is yunior fischer, former doctor now journalist and author. She believes the vaccine is a ray of hope, but tough times she says, still lie ahead for all of us and a very warm welcome to you to be a score professor for Public Health and jane and bill in charity hospital. Who argues that the news of an effective vaccine is good, but it shouldnt distract from the many problems posed by the pandemic. Thank you all 3 for being here. I would like to begin with you. Theres so much to talk about. Some people are talking about a shimmer of hope. The end of the tunnel i saw though one commentator saying, we find ourselves in the midst of an all to him of resignation. Stuff, is it too dark . I wouldnt see i
Election uncertainty poised to bounce from the worst week since march businesses are bracing for election unrest. Live in manhattan. Well take a look at how companies are preparing for the unknowns of this week ahead. And with no preelection stimulus lifeline, how airlines are now preparing to stem the losses and lure passengers back in to their seats. Carl all right, jim, what do we think is going on this morning doesnt sound like you trust futures at this level. We really sold off terribly friday until the last half hour. This is continuation of what looked like a short covered rally. I think a lot of people who are betting that no matter what happens it will be contested and therefore the market has to go down so, why not just come in short my problem with that is what happens if its actually not contested . What happens if its a landslide for either side. The reeason i point that out if youre betting on a contested election its entirely possible with our 24hour coverage its entirel
Dorsey, and alphabets sundar pichai, are set to testify virtually tomorrow. Section 230hange could have longterm ramifications on free speech on the internet. Banned news political ads. We will ask Cambridge Analytica whistleblower as part of our special electioneering series. First, lets get a read on stocks and microsoft results. Abigail doolittle with us from new york. Big beats out of the gate. Abigail in the after hours, they are trading higher. Although i think what we are about to look at could be all over the map at the moment. They are talking about the idea that further lockdowns could hurt demands. Their Cloud Business was weak. Microsoft Cloud Business very strong. That was a piece of the beat. Maybe part of the business that could have gone to microsoft. Again, after hours, this stock is trading higher on the year. Valuation is rich, but the theter is good enough that stock is doing just fine. The s p 500 index and the dow down once again. The nasdaq climbed sharply higher
Advisor has resigned. It comes one day after President Trump fired mark esper. Not give a reason for his resignation. A vatican investigation to x Cardinal Theodore mccarrick has found bishops, cardinals, and popes downplayed or dismissed reports that he sexually abused children and adults. The vatican took the extraordinary steps today of publishing its twoyour internal probe into mccarrick. The report places most of the blame on the late Pope John Paul as 1999, newarly that the behavior was problematic. 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, 5 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. Will there be any thawing of relations between china and the u. S. Under a biden presidency
Mnuchin again today and we will hear from the treasury secretary in a few minutes at delivering alpha. Plus palantirs public debut, backed by peter thiel, it will be a direct listing at the New York Stock Exchange, lots to discuss there. And covid optimism, regeneron saying its treatment cocktail helps in the early stages of the virus and we will talk with the companys cofounder and chief science officer polarity on this hour jim, of course, you have to get the debate out of the way, everybody is talking about that and were going to hear the argument that if you look at futures and even some of the Prediction Markets today, theres an argument that the debate really didnt change the broad contours of the race. Before we got pmi, before we got this little squib from speaker pelosi, the futures were down very big. I was watching dom this morning, it looked like the market would be very ugly and i think that was because of arecognition that there was no way you could possibly have any sort