About covert 19 vaccines. Fears for reading the refugees who are being moved to an island that aid groups say is dangerous. And people in indian administered kashmir accuse soldiers of widescale abuse which the army turn on is. A National Sport as a bron james signs an 85000000. 00 deal with the l. A. Lakers and finally one driver raymond version or a chance in the bahrain sakit scene of his horrifying crash just 4 days ago. But we begin with the corona virus pandemic now in a new phase with countries racing to approve vaccines but in some parts of the world the picture as you can see is getting worse with cases on the rise as winter approaches and since the start of the pandemic there. The more than 64000000 confirmed cases coming quite close to 65000000 there and nearly one and a half 1000000 people have died from the fire as well the United Nations is currently holding a special session of the General Assembly on covert 19 in his Opening Statements the secretary general antonio caet
We are expecting a tripledigit move on the upside with the dow industrials up 231 and s p 500 higher by 19 points after technologyrun yesterday finishing near record highs. S p up 34. A probe into election bribery. Florida congressman matt gaetz wants to know if Michael Bloombergs pledge to pay fines and donations to florida is actually illegal. We will ask congressman gaetz about next steps. How the deal can get out of limbo. Then out of this world, nasas newest plan to get a man and a woman back to the moon. Mornings with maria is live right now. European markets this morning have a firmer tone. Take a look at european indices. Euro zone manufacturing, purchasing slight gains in the month of september. As you see the ftse 100 is up 143 points. Dax index in germany higher by 23. Asia markets overnight take a look and as you see here after the rally on wall street yesterday, weve got mostly a firmer tone but for the most part fractional moves across the board. Some of the stop stories
Japans ruling party gets set to pick a new leader. The next Prime Ministers have a tough task of leading the nation after the pandemic. Shery lets get you started with a quick check of how markets are trading. U. S. Futures up. 4 . This of course after tapping the worst week since march. We continue to see the selloff and idiosyncratic news. Softbank changing options Investment Strategy leading to selling picking up any friday session. Not to mention the tech stock reversed gains after china said it opposes a fourth sale of tiktok. We have the nasdaq composite really under pressure in the u. S. Session on friday, down. 6 . Take a look at what oil is doing because we are coming off of its back its worst back to back weeks since april. Nothing on oil prices, tomention concern about opecs production compliance. Wti at the moment at around 37 a barrel, gaining about. 5 . Lets get a quick check of our asia of how asia is setting up. Sophie we are nearing the halfway mark for september and t
The Fatal Shooting this past spring of breonna taylor. Two police in her hometown of louisville, kentucky were shot after they were called to an area downtown yesterday. Police announced a curfew for the next two nights. The officers injuries were not lifethreatening. Police say they have made nearly 100 arrests in the city. There were also protests in new york, chicago, atlanta, and seattle. Bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Im Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. Vonnie it is 1 00 p. M. In new york, 6 00 p. M. In london, and 1 00 a. M. In hong kong. Im vonnie quinn. Welcome to bloomberg markets. Here are the top stories from around the world we are following. Stocks reversing initial declines. Strong housing dated today and speculation of a new round of economic stimulus. We will discuss with tracy ahearn. It is one of the largest deals yet. United it was via United Wholesale mortgage valued at 15 billion. We will speak with mat ishbia
We are looking ahead to the fed minutes out on wednesday. Lets change the board and look at the currencies and we will check in on some of the commodities. The u. S. Dollar index currently flat. You have the euro gaining just four basis points. A stronger euro over eight straight weeks. That is beneficial for emergingmarket currencies. The yen, 76. Rsus some gains for the aussie versus the safe haven yen. Gold had its first weekly drop since early june. Gold firmly in focus. Down 3 10 of 1 . 42 for wti. Over in the u. S. , 17 basis points on the 10 year. Lets get to the first word news. Good morning south korea is warning of a new mass Coronavirus Infection after reporting its highest number of cases since early march. The latest infections are being linked to a church in seoul. Tokyo confirmed new cases. Young adults in their 20s the largest group, almost 18,000 people are infected in the capital. New data show the japanese economy continuing to stumble amid falling Global Demand and