Disease expert says covid19 will not be a pandemic a lot longer. , dr. Ing at an event today Anthony Fauci pointed to rapid progress in vaccine development. He did say the coronavirus could remain endemic for a long time. Generally, a pandemic is defined as an infection that puts the global population at risk, while an endemic disease is one that spreads in some areas and not others. There is a power struggle inside Prime Minister Boris Johnsons office that threatens to destabilize the british government. His communication director quit last night, raising concerns about the future of johnsons most powerful and controversial advisor, dominic cummings. All of this comes at a time when the Prime Minister is dealing with a new lockdown and brexit talks. 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, 6 00 in london, and 2 00
Silicon go around is seems like everyone knows each other or knows somebody who knows somebody. Keep that up long enough and your network really falls into place. My first guest tonight 20 years or so when he was a young entrepreneur creating software called xfile, david lowry would start in a Small Company known as google and now known as capital g. I understand Business Insider categorize you as one of the coolest people. I believe you are at 83. I am trying to crawl my way up. You are in the top 100. Before we Start Talking about venttu venture capitol, i want you to tell me what you remember about xfire. It was nice memory. 2002 was a totally different era in Silicon Valley, one of the things i remember we were paying 1 per square foot per rent. And it was in a lot of ways an easier time to start business because you can get talents quite easily and because i just moved here, i gotten how much disruption the area had gone through in the downturn and people were super bearish, not t
Reportedly uncovering Quality Control concerns at eli lilly plant set to manufacture its covid antibody treatment and apple debuts the new 5g phone line speedier devices, also coming with an even heftier price tag carl, back over to you. All right jim, on the banks this morning, conversation once again about loss provisions. Also about bond trading at goldman. I dont think it is just bond trading. I think goldman did a remarkable job taking some share, which i say remarkable because imagine youre at home, zooming and taking sharefrom others. I do believe that goldmans back to its old ways which is that it is a dry cleaner it doesnt have any risk remember, dry cleaner, what do we do with the dry cleaner give them our clothes and pick them up and they make money. That has been the goldman way until a couple of years where i think it got wayward where it became much more about, hey, lets invest in this, invest in that, no, to me, what theyre investing in, that i really like, theyre invest
Possibility china might make efforts to im pose security measures on hong kong has some worried especially in asia today. My goodness, thats despite the fact that we did actually get some we started with vaccine data driving the markets. Look at the rally on monday to start the week off of the moderna news you had those positive vaccine comments from dr. Fauci saying the data looked promising, but its being overshadowed by everything playing out in china, whether its the situation with hong kong and what is essentially being seen as something of a power grab through a National Security lens or intentions between the u. S. And china more broadly and some of the policies that weve seen start to come in this week as well its interesting to see in general how this week has played out in the markets because reopening from a week to date standpoint has really led the way here it is the russell 2,000, the small caps which are seen as a proxy for the reopening efforts now that we have 50 state
Income we will be joined by mohammad al aryan and minor the Dow Jones Industrial average right now is off by 1 . A loss of 280. The s p down by three quarts of one ten year note yield it is up a slight amount right now. But it was as low as 1. 02. We are keeping an eye on all of that steve as we try to make sense of what happened today and the 50 basis point cut, the largest since 08. You say it was meant to be a surprised but you werent . I dont think if you were paying you should be surprised lets look at the ill at that of the tape friday, unscheduled announcement by the chairman where he said he would use all the available tools and the fed would act as appropriate. That was one yesterday, comments from perota, from la guardia are the ecb, comments from the imf and the world bank along the same lines. We learned about the g7 meeting. This is exactly what you would expect if you went back and look at how these things work, scott there was a complaint earlier this morning in one of t