Astra zeneca says the vaccine it has developed with Oxford University is up to 90 percent effective. But its cheap to make and easy to store. And china launches an unmanned spacecraft to the mission to bring the lunar rocks back to earth. A Rocket Scientist, what success would mean for chinas states . Yes, welcome to the program. A key federal agency has told joe biden, the president ial transition can begin after donald trump directed his administration to cooperate in the handover process. In a tweet president , trump said he no longer opposed government aid for bidens transition team. Its a close as yet. Hes come to conceding defeat, and earlier us president elect joe biden announced his nominations for 6 top positions in the senate in his administration. And they include his longtime adviser, Anthony Blinken for the position of secretary of state. Former secretary of state john kerry is Climate Change envoy and john and yet as treasury secretary, well for more on this, so im joined
Good Tuesday Morning welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with jon fortt and we had losses at the open but were close to session lows. Dow is down. 3 . S p 500 below 3400 the name of the game, jon, q3 earnings really no stimulus headlines to speak of were watching covid19 levels mega cap, m a in the chip space. You know what im talking about. Absolutely. We telegraphed it here it s were going to begin with amd and that 35 billion planned acquisition of xilinx. Its the boldest bet in a remarkable run by amds chief executive officer dr. Lisa su taking over almost exactly six years ago in october 2014. Sue has taken shares of amd from 3 to, what, 79 as of this morning. More than 2,000 rise. Todays deal is another challenge to intel its a push for market share in data centers and just the latest move by sue to turn amd from an also ran into a leader. Hopefully you have got to know me a little bit im all about focus and execution. You know, what we set out the plans for amd over the
Morticians. Welcome to do that. You could join us. China launched a rocket today to the moon seeking to bring samples of luna rocks and dust back to the john 5 name for the ancient chinese moon goddess. Took off successfully from china. Its the 1st mission in 4 decades. And if successful, it would make china only the 3rd country to bring back samples from the moon after the u. S. And the former soviet union. And for more on this launch, im joined by mark mccall cohen, Senior Advisor for science, an exploration of the European Space agency. Marc welcome and rocks have been brought back from the moon before. What is the scientific importance of this mission . Well, as you know, the Apollo Missions and also soviet Unmanned Missions brought back rocks in the sixtys and seventys. But where the Chinese Mission is going is actually interesting. Its a much younger region of the moon than the Previous Missions have been to the top of a volcano, a very smooth, flat volcano, not a spike, but its
A counter revolution Security Forces they used force to clamp down on gatherings they made arrests they intimidate the people and thats why a lot of people are scared to return to the streets so those who are marking this anniversary say we will continue to fight there is that the term a nation for political change but nobody is under the illusion that this will be an easy way forward as a by john says at least 13 people have been killed by an armenian missile attack in the city of gunja and dozens were injured rescuers are trying to find survivors trapped under the rubble i mean his Defense Ministry says it did not foxwoods as a bunch of. Hes discovered a natural gas supply roughly equivalent to almost 10 years worth of its annual energy needs present ressam choppered one says the find off the east coast of the black sea is anchors the largest ever discovery. Protest right now mancini in the us capital of washington d. C. And other cities across the country in the march for women they
Im now going to throw to Stacey Herbert because she is packed in here i want to check in now so what the audience can understand what you were saying is last year around june of of 29 you asked royce of gold money dot com how on earth negative Interest Rates could ever exist because never in history had that happened and he said the one thing it could possibly be suggesting is huge decline in population whether through choice that people just decide not to have children or a pandemic then it would make sense you know a lot of our system is quite massed up and we just refuse to where we have so many sunk costs right that we cant really change course the globe is orchestrated with the infrastructure of finance and banking and geo economics and globalization and trade as all engineered for just in time so theres a kind of inertia that happens when Something Like a black swan arrives like a pandemic and we all are just sit there waiting for something to happen or for it to go away because