The u. N. His bio is Available Online so let me be very brief in introducing him. Mark has more than 30 years of experience in both humanitarian and development context. Most of it spent with the u. K. s department for international development, which he eventually led as permanent secretary. He had led their humanitarian responses to such context as iraq, syria, nepal, several cases in africa, and haiti. He was also their directorgeneral for policy and corporate performance and finance. An extraordinary wealth of experience both in the context working where operations occur and on the infrastructure that helps to manage them. So were delighted to have sir mark with us today. Mark, there are innumerable humanitarian crises under way right now and at large scale. I know you Just Launched the u. N. s consolidated humanitarian appeal for the funding to support that effort. But today we want to focus on covid. And what the pandemic has meant for the crises that you helped to manage and for
Lets check quickly on the markets. If you look at the markets, and a lot of them are looking at the concerning news or news brexit is going to weigh markets were hoping. The stocks european 600, down and the pound, looking to see if there is any swing on that. 1. 3243. Lets get to the first word news with leighann gerrans. A british official says brexit talks need to show progress by tonight if they are to continue. European unions chief negotiator is said to have denied any breakthrough on the issue of fishing license. Boris johnson is due to speak with the Commission President ursula von der leyen. Donald trump says his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani has tested positive for coronavirus. The New York Times says the 76yearold was admitted to hospital yesterday. The president wished him well. Giulianis son tweeted his well. Is feeling the u. S. Is said to be ready to sanction more chinese officials over the role of the recent disqualification of hong kong legislators. Familiar,to people
Will it work . One of the main incumbents, good rx, shares their answer to the new competition. The bitcoin rally continues, but for how long . Brad darling house will have his take later this hour. Tech share is leading the market higher as more covid restrictions, staying at home for the foreseeable future. Scientists are racing to make advances on the vaccine front, but there is a long winter ahead. Joining us now is abigail doolittle, taking a look at the Market Movers of the day. A lot of conflicting strands. How does it add up . Yesterday, we had the bearish , the risk off news about Public Schools closing. The Biggest School systems in the u. S. Closing on the virus. We have hospitalizations at a record high in the u. S. Stocks yesterday sold off. Today, they rallied. They started in the red, and were flat on the day most of the day. At the end of the day, the nasdaq 100 climbing by about three quarters of 1 . Once again, we have the disconnect between stocks and a reality that
Boost the recovery. Larry summers says the coordinated Global Response is needed. And airbnb books an ipo in new york, aiming to list shares on the nasdaq. Booking through september a total of 18 billion. Although it admits covid19 continues to affect the business. Lets take a look at the asx. More than normal when it comes to the australian soft market after it had the data disruption out. Yesterday was the longest outage in about a decade. Of course, it meant australian traders missed out on the bulk of the days rally. Only trading for a halfhour. We are seeing a pretty modest start, less than 2 10 of 1 higher at the open. Perhaps some caution there could be more technical difficulties. We are seeing gains when it comes to trading in new zealand. Nikkei future setting off on a bad foot as we are seeing some profittaking. It does look like the vaccine driven optimism and the rather we saw overnight will continue, with s p active futures in the positive. Shery we have breaking news at
States biden prepares executive orders to undue a slew of orders and as President Trump challenges the vote. And Boris Johnson amongst the first to congratulate mr. Biden, while other leaders prepare to advance relations and biden prepares to name a covid19 task force as infections hit record daily levels while mark meadows tests positive joe biden has called for unity the win means that donald trump becomes the first one term president since george bush sr. In 1993. After four days of intense counting, biden was named the projected win winner in pennsylvania and nevada. He has so far claimed over 75 million votes, that is the most by any president ial candidate in history. Biden outlined the key issues his administration will face in the short term what is our mandate i believe it is this america has called upon us to marshal the forces of decency, of fairness and science and hope and the great battles of our time the battle to control the virus, the battle to build prosperity, the ba