Worn surging numbers may undermine a Global Recovery. Plus, we discussed prospects for the u. S. And the wider picture with the atlanta fed president , who joins us this hour. Haidi lets look at the sydney staggered open, the friday session muted compared to the street we have had in asian stocks, asiapacific stocks seeing 13 consecutive days of gains broken by the thursday session, the longest winning streak since 1988 coming to an end. A flat stock a flat start in sydney, kiwi stocks up, muted start in japan spite heavy inflows of foreign buying. We are seeing a further downside when it comes to trading in the futures session. Getting secretary mnuchin speaking at the moment. He is speaking in an interview with Bloomberg News, saying financial conditions are quite strong, that companies that are need grants,covid not that. We heard secretary mnuchin earlier asking the fed to return unused coronavirus money. We will get you more as we get those comments. This is coming at a time when
Now meet with federal officials. Donald trump has accepted the decision, although he hasnt conceded trump said in a tweet, hes directing his team to cooperate, but is promising to keep up the fight political hay and has more from washington. All eyes are going to be on the Republican Party leadership in the coming days, because really were seeing increased pressure on them to buck the president. On this we saw the big wigs of National Security officials from former republican administrations. Theyve all come out and said this is bad for democracy. Its many of them, not all of them. Obviously, its bad for democracy. Its bad for National Security and probably more important. Were seeing dozens upon dozens of countries. C. E. O. s the most influential republican donors come out in a letter saying this has to. And Republican Leadership needs to let the president know that its over british drug company, astra zeneca, and the University Say late stage testing of their code 19 vaccine shows i
Abuse but the army says theyre making it up. Thank you for joining us we begin with the coronavirus pandemic now in a new phase with countries racing to pull vaccines but in some parts of the world the picture is getting worse with cases on the rise as winter approaches since the start of the pandemic have been more than 64000000 confirmed cases and nearly 1500000 deaths iran is now the hardest hit country in the middle east and has passed 1000000 confirmed cases over 1000 has killed almost 50000 people there are the Health Minister says the actual number of deaths is probably much higher iran introduced tougher restrictions to counter a 3rd wave of infections which included closing nonessential businesses russia has reported more than 28000 new infections. On thursday the highest spike yet the 2nd largest city St Petersburg has announced restrictions around the new Year Holidays indonesia meanwhile is seeing a record daily rise in cases reporting more than 8300 on thursday and several
Its really just a milestone. We have a lot of work ahead of us knowing the vaccine is going to be effective is great news, but we still need to complete the regulatory process, which involves completing the study, generating more to follow safety. And then of course, we need to get busy manufacturing and the New York Stock Exchange has just opened in the last minute or so, and its up one and a quarter percent already, 366 points improving numbers on that vaccine news from a downer if europeans government is sending reinforcements to its rest of Northern Region forces are appealing to the International Community to condemn the offensive, but the government has ruled out mediation efforts. Armenias, foreign minister has resigned after days of protests against a peace deal with azerbaijan, but Prime Minister and they called refuses to step down. He has defended the decision to hand back parts of not going to cut about, but has taken responsibility. Talk about libyas future of ended withou
A decision be made on which to take and what data to trusts also this hour a hong kong prodemocracy activist and media mogul jimmy lie is denied bail as he faces charges of fraud and a different type of exam season half a 1000000 students in south korea tackle the most important day in their academic calendar. And on peoples temple the school says n. B. A. Players get back to training the Houston Rockets trade old stalled home gold Russell Westbrook to the Washington Wizards. Thank you very much for joining as we begin this hour with the coronavirus pandemic in a new phase with countries racing to approve vaccines but in some parts of the world the picture is getting worse with cases on the rise as winter approaches since the start of the pandemic theyve been more than sea. 34000000 confirmed cases and nearly 1500000 deaths iran is now the hardest hit country in the middle east and has passed 1000000 confirmed cases over 1000 has killed almost 50000 people there but the Health Minister