A bus thats news on this uprising bread. Religion this is an opinion we are for terrorism but we also want the right for our boys to be heard in these countries i must say those extremists have a completely different view thats how they know im just. Making sure you never miss a story this is our chance National Guard room welcome from the whole team karen mustard joint. What our 1st story for you this hour is how dont trumps advisor on coke at 19 has apologized for giving an interview to us to r. T. Off to a wave of criticism from Mainstream Media outlets speaking ongoing on the ground scott atlas slammed the use of lockdowns to contain the spread of the fire us. I dont so its been one of the one of will go down as an attic sale year of our policy people who refused to accept they were wrong were wrong words used to exact they were wrong didnt know they didnt care and became a frenzy of stopping calling 980 says at all costs and those costs are massive and whats happened here is that
Nominate janet yellen to his treasury secretary. She would become the first woman to hold the position. Janet yellen has pushed for more fiscal spending during the pandemic. Credentials could covid passports restart International Travel . We will discuss the latest strategy with its ceo this afternoon, and before then, we are joined by the chief executive of the dutch flag carrier. Do not miss that conversation. It is 6 00 a. M. In london and 7 00 a. M. In zurich. A little bit of breaking news on novartis and we will come back to that in a moment but there is a Share Buyback of up to 2. 5 billion. So we will touch on that in a moment but i think we are in this momentum and we have almost got this goldilocks between a vaccineon starting, narrative, and janet yellen did not get Elizabeth Warren so thats probably part of the cheer on the streets. Certainly. I think wall street will embrace it but also the progressives will embrace her but with this pick which is historic, the first female
If confirmed, she would be the first woman to hold the position. Promising stynes leader to have u. S. Coronavirus Vaccine Program says astrazenecas shot could halt severe covid. Welcome to the program. Futures in europe pointing higher. Futures in the u. S. Pointing higher and a number of uncertainties removed from the markets thinking over the last 24 hours or so. One of them is who is going to be treasury secretary. Somebody the that market knows ery well in the shape of janet yellen, somebody that has considerable monetary experience and fiscal experience. The other uncertainty is the transition at the white house. That seeps to be looking a little smoother given the headlines we have seen over recent hours. The asian picture benefiting from all of that removal of uncertainty i described. Something more complicated happening to the japanese market which had been doing well prior to being closed. It seems the Trump Administration in its last days still has some tough time to be toug
Eurodollar still trading around that 1. 16 level. We will get some analysis on that in just a moment. Crude just coming off its lows. The other thing worth mentioning is that we are seeing the curve flattening down a little bit today. Big moves in the 30 year on both sides of the olympic. Alix moments ago of the atlantic. Alix moments ago, Prime Minister Boris Johnson defended his plan for lockdown. Pm johnson we are not going back to the fullscale lockdown of march and april, and there are ways in which these measures are less strict. Alix he also promised a Mass Testing Program to begin in days with rapid tests. Joining us is Bloomberg Government reporter emily ashton. What is going to be the take away over the next four to six weeks . Emily this is the concern of conservative mps. The lawmakers here in parliament. We have this vote wednesday on whether this second lockdown will go ahead. I think we expect that vote to be approved, despite maybe about a dozen of Boris Johnsons own co
Joining us is julian routh, covering the campaign for the u. S. Postgazette. Lets start with the Supreme Court decision. What did they decide about ballots in pennsylvania . Shut to Supreme Court three day extension to mailin ballots. They failed once and they failed again last night, but Justice Alito left the door open to potentially reexamine this case when the time comes. The times said before the election, most likely the latter, now just in preparation, the pennsylvania secretary of state said they are going to invite counties to segregate all in the three days counting. It is kind of precautionary, but at the same time it is probably smart. I talked to legal experts yesterday who said that those ballots should be segregated because there could be some legal challenges after this as well. The Supreme Court decision last night was remarkable in the way that Justice Alito wrote that he does believe there is a high likelihood that this deadline extension was unconstitutional, but th