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Im chris colfer. Welcome to the program, the rally on financial markets. It continues with optimism about the Coronavirus Vaccine and easing u. S. Political uncertainty, pushing global stocks higher. Investors around the world were in a buying mood on wednesday after the dow jones breached 30000. 00 points for the 1st time. Sentiment soared on the prospect of a big scene to ease the pandemics stranglehold on the Global Economy. But the transition of power to president joe biden, president elect joe biden, rather is finally beginning for the highs as well. For more. Lets bring in our financial correspondent in frankfurt. Give us some more reason for this global rally. Chris, to begin with. Theres more clarity and less of uncertainty that investors are looking now beyond the issues of a 2nd wave unemployment high unemployment. And then rather looking at the post pandemic recovery. And it helps that the transition process has started in the us, and that market friendly treasury said us is
Of the moon. Thank you for joining us the World Health Organization is warning that europe needs to seriously accelerate its response to the coronavirus pandemic it says a lack of effective Contact Tracing is making it even more difficult to stamp out the virus cases in europe are rising shoppy with several countries reporting record numbers of infections on sunday france amounts more than 50000 new cases for the 1st time italy and spain are struggling with a 2nd wave while hopes for a vaccine are growing in the u. K. The British Health secretary says a government this repairing for a mass rollout in the 1st half of next year but in the United States the Trump Administration has been accused of giving up the fight against covert 19 white house chief of staff mark meadows has conceded the u. S. Is not going to control the pandemic lets get more from our White House Correspondent Kimberly Hockett who joins us now President Trump has been making the argument kimberly that you know this wa
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A surprise discovery on the moon out of frozen water on the sunlit surface could be just the tonic for manned missions. The World Health Organization is warning some countries are on a dangerous track in their effort to contain the new surge of Coronavirus Infections the w h os director general has acknowledged that after months of battling covert 19 a certain level of fatigue has set in but hes cautioning against giving up on the fight as comments come a day after the trumpet ministration revealed it had moved to mitigation of the virus not to stamping it out the u. S. Has been hardest hit globally and infections are still on the rise President Trump insists case is a wrap because theres more testing. Several countries in europe are also struggling to control the rising infections but hopes of a vaccine are growing in the u. K. With the British Government and dissipating a mass rollout in the 1st half of next year as more. Hospitals across europe are under mounting strain in spain eme