Afternoon towards t close. That will be your best guide to what is happening. We are approaching the point in europe and we are up by 1. 73 . The pound is actually catching a little bit as well. Earlier on it was turning around a little bit. Now abide. 2 . Now up by. 2 . Normality has resumed. Yields are a little higher and prices a little lower as we start to maybe get a little bit of a better news when it comes to the story. We are watching what is coming out of the u. K. We are now getting news from astrazeneca saying the covid19 trials, the vaccine trial may resume next week. This has been reported by the financial times. Alix we are watching that as well. Blackrock,from marilyn watson. It has been quite a week for investors in any asset class. You had a tech selloff in the u. S. , rising cases in europe. Looking to the ecb on thursday. Our bond markets pricing in the correct things . Markets aret bond pricing in our the fact you have supportibly ands weolicy from the ecb and need
Stage an uprising over the euro grew presidency striking a blow to the blocks major powers. Merkel says the eu needs to combine aid with rome forms reforms in a message to the fruit before. Equities slip. Stock rallyhot cools. State funds start selling, assign the government wants to slow the surge. Daily virus cases in the u. S. Continue to hit new highs, worrying investors. Stuck in the middle. Global banks risk being caught in the crossfire of chinas new law in hong kong. U. S. Sanctions against it as compliance with one may mean breaching the other. Just under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading across the road. Take a look at futures here. We are looking at red arrows. Not a lot of size there. If you look at u. S. Futures, red arrows that are much bigger. 5 10 of a percent losses. S p down. Nasdaq looking a lot more risk off in terms of the futures contracts then european futures contracts do. What do you see on the gmm . Anna the selling you were talking about in c
At one point, they were convenience not absolute indicated up about 300 points on necessity as in the activity that positive news out of moderna. The s p is indicated up about 13 couldnt be performed, so even if youre working out of your points and the nasdaq would open home in new jersey, new jersey says wait a minute were not by about two points after a giving you a credit because you performed the work here. Strong dayyesterday. We get to tax you too. So both sets of taxes. All of those states are facing severe crunches at this point so i would imagine all of those states will be pretty aggressive about it. When you say you could do the work some where else, new york city was closed down, offices the nasdaq was up by 1 . Have been closed down. Employers didnt want people back in the building lets look at the treasury seems like a little extraordinary during these times. Do you think eventually what happens the states gettogether you will see the 10year now and work something out whe
Very well welcome to you watching r. T. International with me nikki. Moscow has marked the 75th anniversary of the soviet unions liberation of warsaw from nazi germany with a large firework display and all more than 3000 fireworks lit up the russian capital skyline warsaw was occupied by nazi germany for 6 years 200000 soviet soldiers gave their lives to stop the brutal regime in the city and its surroundings. City stood empty and deserted the bodies of poles tortured and executed to be seen in ditches and sewer pipes theres not a single underage building remaining in warsaw objects of historical and Cultural Heritage plundered. It is with great joy but im reporting to you that today on january the 7945 joint forces of the soviet army is close the russian front and the polish 1st army have successfully completed an offensive operation overturning movement and have liberated the city of warsaw from the syrian raiders once and for all. Our troops are critiqued by local police to polarize
Exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news from all around the world, from hong kong to london, to new york and washington. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with todays top stories. In asia, hundreds of thousands joined hong kongs biggest demonstration in months in signs that demonstrations will continue into the new year. Joining me is stephen engle. Give us the update. You know, this has been a protest movement that is now into its sixmonth, and i have to say, there is a bit of protest fatigue. People are tired of the violence. People are tired of the vandalism. They are tired of the disruptions to their morning commute. They are tired of the damage to the economy. But they are also tired of what they perceived to be an intransigent government here, unwilling to make any concessions to the protesters. That left this weekends big mark. A big question will there still be momentum for the protest movement, which has dwindled in size, but increased in violence . That an