For thanksgiving. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. The markets are little bit on the move. On the one hand, we have a vaccine and encouraging news from the pharmaceutical companies. I am looking forward to catching up with the roche chief executive on the treatment out there. On the other hand, we get infections rising in the latest one from the cdc, saying lees try not to travel for tryksgiving please not to travel for thanksgiving. U. S. Futures are actually down. The dollar edging up somewhat. If you look at, you know, health and industrial shares, they seem to be rallying here in the u. K. , and i want to show you yields on the spanish bond. I think we will have that board shortly, so we will bring you that, but you can see in general, it is a twoway system for what the market is looking at. Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news in london with leighann gerrans. Hi, leighann. Leighann hi, francine. Over in georgi
Entered a new wave of cases. Europes twin battles. E. U. Leaders make no progress. Chancellor merkel says finding compromise will be difficult as france and belgium are said to have urged e. U. Leaders to step up contingency plans for a nodeal brexit. Very good morning to you and happy friday. What a week it has been. Witharted the week off optimism and euphoria with markets on a high into vaccine news and we will be ending the week on a much more sobering tone. The news coming out in the United States, california imposing a new curfew, with pressure on officials. We wake up to a public clash between Steven Mnuchin and jay powell on unused lending funds and we saw that hit the futures market. S p 500 futures paring some of those losses. We have nasdaq futures relatively flat this morning. Treasury yields steady. In the pound, north of 132. We do have sources telling bloombergs that Emmanuel Macron is urging his e. U. Counterparts to start drawing up contingency plans for a nodeal brexi
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Now because you are only the second wealthiest man in the world, right . Many companies are racing for a vaccine. This ceo is emma wants me. Has a vaccine that will help cure covid 19. How me times a day to people ask you when youre vaccine will be available . Regularis a very question. Have alluently, we been delighted to see the very recent years that some of the first results coming through on vaccines. Yesterday, i was on a call last globalith 10 of the pharmacy ceos that are heavily involved in bringing solutions to covid. We are excited and optimistic to see the first data come through and looking forward to seeing more come through in the next six months or so. We have three vaccines and the clinic and to therapeutic treatments. Everyone is understandably inpatient. We wipe off with the pandemic 500 billion of value with the world. I think that we can be increasingly optimistic that the science will win. Mobilizedry that has so fast it will start to bring Scale Solutions and we
A day and hundreds of thousands of jobs every single day. Ideally, we wont go to a larger, i will not go disadvantage as you will not be going to a lockdown. Hopefully the, the, whatever happens in the future, who knows which administrator will be, i guess time will tell, but i can tell you this administration will not go to a lockdown. The United Nations says its concerned war crimes may have been committed in the ethiopians. Northern tikrit region where Government Troops are battling local fighters. It sends a conflict has already killed hundreds of people. Thousands have fled, sudan, as a by john has been forced to curfew in areas that is captured in the corner kind of arc. It comes ahead of armenias handover of lands to the us, or by shan, some ethnic, armenians of set fire to their former homes, and they flee the area a 30 year ceasefire. Americas volatile Western Sahara region could be in jeopardy. Roku says a Pro Independence group has blocked the main roads. The army has moved