People because as we get older. d our immune systems deteriorate. This vaccine is different from the other 2 that weve been reporting on because it is made from a weakened version of the common cold virus found in chimpanzees, which is then modified to make sure that it cannot grow in humans is given in 2 doses. And so far is reporting a 99 percent efficacy rate. All participants have been gently generating neutralizing antibodies. So it is knocking out the virus in their bloodstream with no reported side effects. And that is very good news here because this is the vaccine that britain is betting on. It has bought 100000000 doses of it so far. And so we are eagerly awaiting the phase 3 result. Whats interesting is that initially this vaccine was one of the front runners, and we thought wed be getting results much earlier. But as we know in the last 10 days, the pfizer bio and tech and the madonna vaccines have pulled ahead and, and have shown that they are more than 90 percent effectiv
Grieves for the court and they will take a vote at 1 45 eastern. Now, live coverage here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. God of might and mercy, thank you for providing our lawmakers with opportunities for courageous and noble service. Inspire them to labor for your glory in all they say and do. Illuminate their minds with the light of your divine precepts. Equip our senators for their tasks that they may be physically fit, mentally alert, morally straight, and spiritually strong. Create in them the life of purity, honesty, and altruism that contributes solutions to the problems they face. May they work with perseverance and magnanimity for the new and better day toward which your divine intentions guide them. We pray in your faithful name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the
The equities tenyear yield is below the 5 we have been crossing over earlier in the week. Twoyear yield an above 5 oil is another interesting picture to watch wti has been trending up this morning after being down for the week down by over 6 . Lets bring the developing story from the middle east fighter jets launching a strike in two locations in Eastern Syria. The pentagon says this is linked to the Iran Revolutionary guard over attacks on u. S. Bases that began last week killing one u. S. Citizen and injuring 20 more the pentagon says the u. S. Does not seek escalation of any conflict and describes this as a separate issue from israel and hamas. You have to think the issues which emerged in israel with hamas have inflamed the situation. This is the Iranian Revolutionary guard with the attacks. It is hard to separate one from the other with Iranian Revolutionary guard proxies with hezbollah and hamas. If you watch the news and every time you watch it, you say this is the 17th attack s
City this morning good morning for audience worldwide. This is bloomberg surveillance headed towards three weeks of gains in the s p 500 before we get to the weekend already looking forward to next week. Look at the lineup absolutely stacked, full of Economic Data. Wednesday cpi retail sales thursday jobless claims you got some retail earnings in the mix we will hear from home depot and walmart by the end of next week we should have a decent read on the American Consumer . It feels like every piece of data is choose your own adventure. You decide what comes in and what you think about this economy. Its been contradictions, ism goes into contraction. Earnings overall is great and gdp now tracker for percent. Make sense of that. Jonathan you all remember last tuesday fed might have to talk about raising Interest Rates in the wednesday meeting and then all of a sudden the cooler payrolls read whipsawed narrative from one side to the other. More fed speak later. Fed speak just repeat the s
Samsung. But also how it points to this bottoming out in the chip market and potentially the recovery for semiconductor demand. Were actually seeing sk hynix starting today on the back foot, sliding about 3 now is investors digest that scorecard. Potentially what we got from med is bringing from meta is bringing the downdraft into the korean session. The outperformer among the asian currencies looks to be reversing some of that today. We also have the open in japan. One of the things we will be watching out for has been the japanese currency which has breached the 155 level. This has got to do with that yield gap as we saw the way u. S. Treasuries were coming under pressure overnight. But now that we are watching the yen at the weakest level versus the greenback in about 30 years. Consider how back in june 1990 when it breached 155, it was a matter of a couple of days before it reached the 160 level. Though there is some skepticism as to whether we will actually see intervention by the