You mentioned the vaccine trials with astrazeneca. That is not voting well. Boding well. Chinese markets nearly 2 down for the shanghai composite. The hang seng down 303 points, and the kospi also lower. Watching the dollar declined overnight, given some of the risk off moves. The pound down on the sixth the day, the longest losing streak since may. Streak eurodollar slightly lower. , ian hashe aussieyen been boosted by the haven play. G10 higherthe only than the dollar. Yields pretty much flat right now but we saw treasuries up overnight. This is where we are seeing signs of contagion from the tech selloff, the Commodity Markets and oil markets in particular. Below 40 forst the First Time Since june. Thats get more analysis with our strategist. Mark, the u. S. Session came back from the holiday continuing the tech selloff. How is the market readjusting now . Mark it is not a pretty start in asia. The thing thats concerning wayle is it appears to be beyond tech and is affecting other A
Republicans are now diving into each different part of this h. E. A. L. S. Act as leader mcconnell termed this deal. It stands for healthic economy assistance Liability Protection and schools. The trillion dollar package has 105 billion for schools. That is more than was in the democrats heroes act from back in may. It has another round of direct checks and it has an add unemployment benefit of 200 a week. Thats a decrease of what its been for the last several months. But Senate Finance chair Chuck Grassley just noted this is going transition to 70 of a workers pre pandemic wage over the course of the next few weeks. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell said that the virus doesnt care how fragile the economy is, but that the u. S. Is not write a blank check. It needs to be tailored for these specific times and crossroads. But democrats are already saying its far too tailored. After mcconnell took the floor, Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer said there needs to be Food Assistance f
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Wanted by police for 23 billion. And fords new techheavy car. Is it more about the cars features . Well be talking about that coming up later on. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange bringing you Business News from around the globe. All right. We are just getting ifo numbers here from german business expectations. Its coming in at 108. 3 in february. Thats slightly above consensus of 108. 2. But those january numbers, 108. 6 was the numbers there. Current conditions, 114. 4. Thats 111. 3 in february. Versus consensus of 110. 6. Thats the climate index, of course. So slightly stronger. No revisions to the january indices data. So the Current Conditions index, 114. 4 february consensus lower than that. So well now look at ukraine, one of the other top stories. The acting interior min city say police want to speak to the missing expresident Viktor Yanukovych for the murder of peaceful citizens. His last known whereabouts are the area of kronia. Meanwhile, ukraines interim president calls the
Workable are those solutions. I mean, if you just step back from men think about this, any new technology for connected vehicle they put into the marketplace at best will go on 50, 60 million vehicles in the United States in 87 the million globally. Here in the United States you have 303 million vehicles already in the car park and get you are only producing 15 fists or 16 million new vehicles each year. Have the really making effective with it might take utility years for the technology to propagate throughout. So regulators need to understand that legislating something instantaneously does not mean you fix the problem. In fact of you may cause a bigger problem. And you may increase the cost of the technology. So it is much better in my mind to try to work through and facility with the players to understand really what is possible. Can you me, could you do that would be the vehicle . Kirsten looking at this and thinking, well, if by major auto maker can i introduce it in my vehicles b