To the Drug Companies to even the tech companies. ,rude is above 30 a barrel 32. 22. Yield is at 68 basis points. At 7. 1270. An we have president xi speaking today to the world health organization. Coming up later this hour, we will be speaking with the ceo of moderna, which is reporting some good initial promising results for vaccine tests. Us atne bancel will join 10 30 eastern. Guy looking forward to that conversation. The market certainly responding to that. Mostin europe, the beaten up sectors are rising the most strongly today. You can see the mining stocks up by 6. 9 . Car stocks are up really strongly as well. They are all outperforming the stoxx 600, which is up a healthy 3 . The commodity story absolutely front and center, as a result of which we are seeing Commodity Currencies doing very well. You can see the aussie dollar trading up by 1. 15 . Up by 1. 15 . As you say, we are seeing rising around 0. 71 . Vonnie exactly. Chinese president xi jinping addressing the World Hea
Bedeviled the world and this could be a sign they had been long waiting for. Hope springs eternal here and you obviously need something beyond just phase two trials that look promise. Well get into that with a top doctor. Meantime look what is going on in wall street here and why everything is looking green thus far. Jackie deangelis on that. Hey, jackie. Reporter good afternoon, neil. Everything is green as you said. Moderna seeing a huge pop on this news today and the dow is up more than 800 points and the point here is weve been talking about therapies, weve been talking about treatments but there is Nothing Better in terms of reopening the American Economy than a vaccine that would prevent people from getting the coronavirus. That is why you have this kind of optimism today. Now this was data from a phase one trial as you mentioned. So it is still very early here but it does mean, that the company can move forward. It is saying the goal to get to phase three in july. If everything
Australiachina relations think again with beijing slapping penalties. Australia will challenge the move at the wto. Shery lets get you started on how the markets are trading. U. S. Futures under a little bit of pressure, down 1 10 of 1 of the open. This after u. S. Stocks jumped the most in six weeks during the regular session. It was a risk on trade. Stocks finish at the highest level since early march. The s p 500 saw gains in cyclical stocks that have been battered leg energy, autos, banks. More than 90 of the s p 500 gained ground. More haven stocks did lag. The nasdaq rose 2. 64 . We did get some comments from fed chair Jerome Powell before the hearing tomorrow. The fed prepared to use its full range of tools as the benchmark lending rate reaches zero until the economy is back on track. See how markets are shaping up in asia. Sophie kamaruddin joins us in hong kong. Soph . Sophie the bulls perk up in asia. We have futures pointing largely higher. Nikkei futures fell somewhat but h
Work. We are finalizing the , whichl of a phase three we are hoping to start in july of this year. Severaly will be thousand subjects across many countries. That it will happen in july as planned. Talking about how it is accelerating its testing. I want to bring in taylor riggs. A lot more work needs to be done here to prove that the vaccine works. This would have to be going on for much longer and more sustained trials. How much of this rally is due to here . Pe of a vaccine taylor i would say that there are three things to be happy about this. Updating the stock to 105 a share with the buy rating. Saying that this vaccine hits the mark. Paper sandler saying this could have potential blockbuster sales next year. Essentially, you had analysts on the street doubling their price target today. You did hint a little bit about a note of caution. I will reiterate that as well. Was ats said the result sample from a small, first study looked to see how safe it can be in human volunteers and it
Keep their employees on staff, lenders were met with error messages and a frozen sba site. Former ubs america chairman and ceo robert wolf on how both banks and the government can salvage the reputational damage. We will get some numbers and bring them to you and of course, the president as well. We are one hour away from starbucks first, as we are calling it, covid Quarterly Earnings report. Board member clara shy on what investors can learn from starbucks china reopening plus how her company that she runs is helping major businesses, publicly traded companies, fix their biggest problem of the coronavirus crisis. Slow Response Time for their customers. And imax stock thrilling investors in this final hour. And charlie breaks it on who is breathing down banks necks now. Less than an hour to the closing bell, lets start the claman countdown. Liz all right. Breaking news. As i mentioned, we are waiting for the president to speak but we just got an important number, sort of a subset of nu