Well, good morning. Its monday, november 30th. Hope you all ate lots of good food this weekend, but some big news this morning. Moderna will ask the fda for emergency authorization use for its covid19 vaccine today. The massachusettsbased Company Released its latest trial results just an hour ago. It says so far it found the vaccine is just over 94 effective. Moderna following pfizer in requesting emergency authorization use. The fda is scheduled to discuss pfizers vaccine next week and they could do the same for moderna on the 17th. We have assembled the abc vaccine team to bring you the most complete coverage and updates as they come in. Surging covid19 cases means that San Francisco and san mateo counties have to roll back to the most restrictive purple tier and that means those two counties are part of the statewide curfew for purple. Gyms also have to operate only outdoors. Top attractions like the academy of sciences are closed. Indoor worship not allowed in purple tier counties.
Imagine or times you were going underground after repeated aerial bombardment of syria by israel armed by britain e. U. Nations in the United States coming up in the show. We ask a former middle east based m i 6 agent whether a joe biden presidency signals a new road to damascus and the renewal of Isis Al Qaeda and u. K. U. S. The u. S. Attempts at regime change in syria, even during a global pandemic, and what bloodshed to expect from obama officials accused of facilitating civilian drone killing and the destruction of libya, africas richest per capita country. And as an inquiry launches in, rumania after a coronavirus intensive care units that fire and kills 10, we investigate oscar tipped film collective with its echoes of el edged incendiary profit driven corruption for which an inquiry continues here in london into the grenfell fire in the poorest area of one of the richest in the world. All this more coming up in todays going underground, the football star, Diego Maradona being m
Policy speech. The city faces rising infection rates and a clamp from beijing. Joe biden names his Foreign Policy and Security Team as he with to calm Relations International friends and foes. He says america is back ready to lead. Haidi lets look at the set up at the start of trading. We are seeing some green shoots at the open, about. 4 higher. Global stocks as well as asian stocks continuing to be on a tear. We are watching keenly for developments in kiwi assets, given we had the rbc releasing its semiannual stability report. This is pushing the kiwi dollar higher. U. S. Ashed through . 70 yesterday and we are seeing expectations of negative rates dissipate even further. Unlovedtors rotate into areas, it may not mean the end of things that have been successful so far. John praveen is Portfolio Manager for qma. He joins us on the phone from new york. We are talking about what happens to big tech given the rotation trade gaining a more solid footing. Is it the behavioral changes, chan
580, the tricommute is slow and go. We have a couple of crashes, one westbound. Another one as you approach the dublin interchange. A busy ride through there. We have slow and go conditions over the altamont pass. Also for the drive, traffic racking up in this area due to an accident southbound 680 at andrade road. We are seeing delays on 84 as you work your way through there. Traffic is slow in that area. Checking your travel time, looking at 45 minutes to get toward the 680 connector. We are looking at the Johns Hopkins map. The u. S. Has surpassed 11 million total covid cases. The staggering milestone was reached just six days after the u. S. Senate 10 million cases. More promising news on the covid19 vaccine front. Moderna says the shot provides strong protection against coronavirus. Preliminary data remits phase 3 trial shows its vaccine was 94. 5 effective. Both moderna and pfizer are on track to seek permission for emergency use within weeks. As many as 20 million americans coul
Off the fall season. Arenado speakers you mentioned ed freeman he has the Professor Business Administration at the Darden School of uva. Today hes going to discuss his latest book which is so relevant given the current discourse that is going on in our nation. He calls the word and the most powerful word in our language. Here to find out why the power of and responsible business without tradeoffs. Thanks very much for having me. Its a real treat to be back even if only virtually at fordham. Many years ago in a fit of youthful idealism that you mentioned i have that ph. D. In philosophy. That was great. My father said well you will never have to worry about it job because they just opened a bunch of philosophy factories at the interstate. You will be fine. I got very lucky. Ive always taught in Business Schools but i want to recapture today if i can fact as an optimist and idealism in the shadows of this awful pandemic and the real devastation that has occurred in the world in many comm