Will try to fill in his space as he expresses his culinary abilities. Francine we will get clarification on what he is working on. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika good morning. S p global is on the verge of a giant deal in the Financial Information industry. Bloomberg has learned that the company is in advanced talks to for 44s markets billion. An agreement could be announced as soon as today. It would be the second biggest deal of the year. President trumps coronavirus taskforces propping promising a rapid rollout of the vaccine to 2 million americans i the end of the year. The Surgeon General expects that most americans will have access by early in the second quarter. He says the government hopes to quickly ok requests from two drugmakers for emergency approval of their vaccines. A group of opecplus ministers could reach an agreement on whether to delay januarys oil a fullincrease, before meeting of the cartel and its allies today.
Welcome to our special 2020 election coverage. It is so nice to stay up altogether. I think the world is really riveted by what is happening with the vote counting in u. S. I am francine lacqua. Tom keene in new york. Interesting to look at market movement. The world is watching this razor thin election, just trying to understand why it is taking so long in certain counties, and of course trump to find out what happens in the senate race and what happens with the president. Tom its going to be extraordinary this friday and the uncertainty of where we are friday afternoon, where we are into the weekend. One thing that is very evident as we edged towards recounts, which will move us nicely from november and even into december. One telling statistic, the sum right now of the five states, forget about alaska, the five state disparity between these 3,919 votes out5 of 150 million that have been made. Francine we are talking about razor thin changes. The latest electoral vote count 64, the m
London. We had that surprising news, a lot of it on how it could up into the markets Going Forward into the november 3 election day. Now, we still know very little about the symptoms, if any, that President Trump has, so that gives us a little indication of what will happen next. I suppose we could see him stop campaigning for the next two weeks if not longer. It could also have an implication for the ballot if something were to escalate. Canpean stocks down, you see s p futures also down, and then vix, one of the measures we look at for volatility, is gaining as the market trying to recalibrate exactly what that means. Now lets get more on the markets with dani burger. Hi, dani. Dani good morning, francine. We see this reaction starting with a gut punch, starting to bleed into the red for the rest of the day. Yes, u. S. Futures are lower, but interestingly, what is doing worse right now are russian assets. The russian stock index down more than 2 , the ruble down more than 1 . Yesterd
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