Worse preventative measures. Has been the hardest hit of the region iran has been the hardest hit in the region. A postbrexit trade agreement were abruptly disrupted today when one European Union official involved in the talks tested positive for the coronavirus. Michelleief negotiator barnier said he would suspend talks with u. K. For a short period. The two sides are trying to reach an agreement by next week to allow time for a deal to be ratified before the end of the year. Global news 24 hours a day, onair, and on bloomberg quicktake, 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 p. M. In london, and 2 00 a. M. In hong kong. Im vonnie quinn. Welcome to bloomberg markets. Here are the top stories we are following on the bloomberg and from around the world. Transition to the white house. Members of the president elects team are set to be contacting staff of the congressional app
Washington ramps up pressure on beijing. Goldman sachs raises billions for a new fund to focus on private equity. The move comes amid rising interest in secondary investing. Haidi lets look at what the day has in store at the sydney open. We are expected a muted start to trading in asia after downward pressure coming from the u. S. Session overnight. Restrictions continue to take place to curb the the Coronavirus Spread we are starting to see accelerate again, even as we get further good news on the vaccine front. Trading marginal. The u. S. Dollar held to the lowest we have seen since april 2018. We are also seeing the aussie dollar on the back foot. Nikkei futures look like they will see a muted start to trading. Shery lets get started with good news on the vaccine front. Pfizer says final Data Analysis shows its covid shot is 95 effective. The ceo of its german partner told bloomberg about plans for mass production. Our goal is to supply up to 50 million doses by 2020 which andd go
Hicks riding on air force one she was quarantined on air force and his helicopter days ago with other top officials. One for the return flight to the president feet from joe washington. The president suggesting Service Members and Law Enforcement may biden on the debate stage. Have given her the virus. It is hard when you are with this morning, bidens message to people from the military or from his rival. Word that Vice President pence and his wife tested negative. What it means for President Trump, his health, the campaign, Law Enforcement and they come over to you and they want to hug and the nations security. You. Today friday, october 2nd, 2020. You get close. Things happen. From nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie in a prerecorded speech thursday, President Trump contradicted his own Public Health experts insisting the virus would soon be in the and hoda. Rearview mirror. The end of the pandemic is in and hoda kotb. Sight. Erace social live from studio 1a. Distancing and
Reassurance from others in government they have not tested positive. Obviously, our first question was about mike pence, speaker pelosi. They are both negative as is the secretary of treasury. Secretary of state, the former Vice President joe biden, Kamala Harris all reporting negative results. But utah senator mike lee and the president of notre dame both who met with the new candidate, the new nominee for court, have tested positive. The other important update for you, chris, is the white house is now saying the president is experiencing minor symptoms. Thats very different than earlier reports that said he was asymptomatic. We will be watching for any change in the language the white house is using to describe the president. Youre seeing video of him in minnesota wednesday where he was accompanied by hope hicks, who was first reporting her own symptoms. Here is the president on fox news last night hours before he was diagnosed. You know, i spent a lot of time with so does the first
Deal. No let up in germany. Angela merkel ruled out further loosening of measures after europes largest economy records the biggest spike in cases in four months. Asian stocks trade mixed following a fresh record on wall street. European futures point to a positive open. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the program this wednesday morning. Lets have a look at terms of breaking news. Notes coming through mace maersk. The fullyear numbers, 6,000,000,0007,000,000,000. This is new guidance coming through. That is interesting in itself. The guidance we previously had in the year had been withdrawn by this business which operates 20 of the world container fleet. They are giving us this new guidance here. Looking at the underlying profit numbers for the second quarter. This is the backward looking part of it. The underlying profit data is 359 million dollars. They have done better than the estimates. We will be speaking into the management of maersk later on in programming. We have u. K. Ct