Global news 24 hours a day on air and on bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. I am Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. I am vonnie quinn. Welcome to Bloomberg Markets here are the top stories we are following. Covid vaccine in the ether again. Pfizer says a final analysis of the chemical trials data shows its vaccine was 95 effective. Free han the 90 previously. Michael stubblefield, ceo of of and later we will speak to the ceo of intact financial. It would be the biggest acquisition of a u. K. Listed company this year. A quick check of the markets. For the most part, not doing much. The s p 500 unchained. The 10 year yield under 88 basis points. Weakk dollar index a dollar index. We have a slightly smaller dollar. Investors keeping an eye on vaccine development. Tor provides materials for vaccine candidates. The president and ceo Michael Stubblefield joins us for more. Michael, you provide Raw Materials for most of these vaccines
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
We saw a poll coming out of the weekend on sunday, a couple polls, actually, saying a majority of americans that were surveyed had very strong feelings about the fact that the president himself managed to contract this virus. Emily to a certain extent, it has served as a little bit of a wakeup call, if you will, that the president , with all of his security, testing, and the people that have been around him, even the most powerful man in the world can contract this virus. Can contract the virus. You see republicans. They have been sort of pushing forward and saying we are going to go ahead, continue with the debate, continue from what they can do with campaigning. Look over in the senate, where there is a huge debate going on right now about filling the Supreme Court vacancy. We have not seen any changes to that schedule despite the fact that we have three republicans who currently have the coronavirus and a couple of them sit on the committee that is going to be responsible for having
Top of his comment on the employees and what theyve done during this crisis. What i see here is best in class confidence. You wonder how the other banks will adapt to that. Call it lets conservative confidence. You can see where the headwinds are. They are going to be with us for quite a while. Lisa they boosted their reserves for credit losses highlighting some of the concerns about the economy. Shares of jp morgan right now and have the open up almost 4 . We will get more of a sense of how much of a port in the storm they will be. We will get Consumer Price index data which may point to the biggest rise in Consumer Prices in seven years due to some of the energy increases. Lots of fed speak ahead of the blackout period. Jonathan we have to kick things off with Bank Earnings on wall street and crossover to sonali basak. Pretty amazing here. Even with more than a billion dollars more in bloom losses than wall street expected, jp morgan is also coming in with profit thats better than ex
Exports from france and the u. K. In what could become a wider transatlantic trade fight. Just what everyone needed. Correspondent mike mckeen is going to break down those details. You missed it right . Terrace man, he is back. The Trump Administration getting ready for another round of tariffs on the European Union. This time legally permitted by the wto which the administration billion ino 7. 5 tariffs because of illegal subsidies to airbus. The initial round only targeted half of those. Ony put in 15 taxes aircrafts and parts, 25 and including Gourmet Foods like scotch whiskey. Also industrial goods like pipe cutters. Now they want to impose a new round using up the rest of the money, they would put tariffs on things like all lives, be your, trucks, beer, clothing. Good news for guy, bad news for alex. Edition jin would get more expensive at the height of gin and tonic season but maybe an excess of supply would help guy in london. This is something called carousel retaliation. They