University. Just six days ago, the u. S. Crossed 12 million. Thats one million new cases in less than a week. Experts warn data may be spotty due to the thanksgiving holiday. In fact, scientists at the cdc predict the amount of cases in the u. S. Is about eight times higher than what the states are reporting. Experts say roughly 84 of the u. S. Population has not yet been infected and still remain at risk. The race is on to get a vaccine to the public quickly, perhaps as early as the next few weeks, but there have been setbacks. Cornell has the latest. Cornell. The cdc holding a meeting next week to discuss who will get the vaccines first. Meantime, fda approval of one vaccine could happen in weeks. The fda could be authorizing a Coronavirus Vaccine in a few weeks. The federal Drug Administration is holding an emergency use authorization meeting about pfizers vaccine on december 10th. The fdas center for buy logisticsist and research, he says within weeks, possibly days. But the covid
U. K. s chief negotiator rejects a proposal to avoid a no deal. Him ask exclusively with he plans to shore up recovery. A lot of things for markets to grapple with. We have concerns about the record cases in the u. S. A number of states, not just texas, pausing on reopening. The initial jobless claims causing some concerns. Could we see layoffs coming through, even with the reopening . We look ahead to Consumer Spending data in the u. S. , and the news flow yesterday and overnight. On the one hand, given one hand to the banks volcker rule, and dividends. We did see the s p 500 yesterday. Chinese markets are closed. We do see a risk on trade in equities. In terms of her features are positioned, muted, up to 10th of 1 . 1 2 10 of 1 . The bloomberg other index is pretty much unchanged. The 10 year yield is study. For oil is study. For is steady. , its beenor oil tempered with a sharp drop in export plants. It is headed for its highest weekly decline since april. Wall street lenders will s
You from the bloomberg terminal. American contagion. The u. S. Records its biggest ever jump in new virus cases. Governors reverse plans to reopen their states. Powell puts his foot down. The fed dividends bid buybacks. Buybacks amid uncertainty around the pandemic. Wall street giant slide in late trading. An elaborate fraud. Auditors accuse them of a sophisticated scheme to hide billions of euros. Visa and mastercard consider cutting ties. Just under one hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe. Lets take a look at the futures as they are trading now. Yesterday, we closed slightly in the green. The u. S. Also rose and rallied into the close on news that banks would get a little bit more room from regulators to trade and be able to use more of their capital buffers, so diminishing the volcker rule, helping in the u. S. European futures are up as well as we get headlines that klm is securing a 3. 4 billion euro bailout from the dutch government, so we see more hope of s
If you look at our website, our facebook page, the app or go by the tenth in the plaza, we would love to have you help support the festival. After the session, paul will be signing books at the signing tent that is on the plaza and the books are for sale at the parnassus tent and a portion of those to sales go directly to the festival. We are here today, to hear paul talk about his latest book. He has published numerous works of fiction. In 1991, he was awarded the james black memorial prize. This was for his work the Mosquito Coast which was adapted into a movie in 1986. After moving to london in 1972, he said often in epic journey by train from Great Britain to japan and back. His account of this journey was published as a Great Railroad or railway bazaar. It was his first major success as a travel writer. It is now considered a classic in the genre. He has since written a number of books including deep south in 2015, which details for road trips he took in Southern States in the u.
Partner manager at politics and prose. I just want to thank all of you for coming tonight. Love to see such a full house. I could not be more excited to introduce three powerhouse women that will speak tonight. We will have them come up in just a few minutes but first i want to show a short video. It was produced by two of our speakers tonight and it is narrated at the incomparable alexandria ocasiocortez. His very schematic to what we will be talking about tonight and its a really great introduction to our event. Well play that and then well come back together. I took the poetry and from new york to d. C. Always brings me back to when i first started. In 2019 i was a freshman in the most Diverse Congress in history up to that point. As a critical time. Ill never forget the children in our community. It would i was so inspired to meet this new class of politicians navigating the halls of power. Its often said you cant be what you cant see and for the first time they saw themselves. I t