Global news 24 hours a day on air and on bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. I am Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. I am vonnie quinn. Welcome to Bloomberg Markets here are the top stories we are following. Covid vaccine in the ether again. Pfizer says a final analysis of the chemical trials data shows its vaccine was 95 effective. Free han the 90 previously. Michael stubblefield, ceo of of and later we will speak to the ceo of intact financial. It would be the biggest acquisition of a u. K. Listed company this year. A quick check of the markets. For the most part, not doing much. The s p 500 unchained. The 10 year yield under 88 basis points. Weakk dollar index a dollar index. We have a slightly smaller dollar. Investors keeping an eye on vaccine development. Tor provides materials for vaccine candidates. The president and ceo Michael Stubblefield joins us for more. Michael, you provide Raw Materials for most of these vaccines
4 trillion in debt. Going into debt, an additional million in an hour and a half. Its not the republicans fault, of course, and its not the democrats fault, and what im looking for is who did it. Now, theyre the two folks involved, so maybe if you put them together, they did it. The facts are, we have to fix it. Somewhere out there there is an extraterrestrial doing this to us, i guess. Everybody said they will take responsibility. Someone somewhere has to take responsibility for this. That was independent candidate ross perot during three separate debates in 1992 talking about one of his favorite issues, the u. S. Debt. In that election the texas businessman won 90 of the popular vote, the largest vote for an independent candidate sin since. Good night and thank you for being with us. Were doing this series as a way of looking at American History through the lens of president ial candidates who failed in the white house but had an influence on American History. Ross perot is one of 12
With civil Rights Groups today to address the growing boycott the organizers of stop hate for profit calling the meeting a disappointment saying that Mark Zuckerberg and Cheryl Sandberg are not ready to address the hate on that platform and did not respond to demands of dozens of its largest advertisers the ncaa color of change, Antidefamation League and free press saying Mark Zuckerberg did not offer any tangible plans on how facebook will address the rampant discrimination and violent conspiracies on their platform the meeting that we just left was a disappointment facebook has had our demands in multiple ways and they showed up to the meeting expect an a for atte attending. Attending alone is not enough. Civil Rights Groups saying facebook did not address their list of demands, saying zuckerberg offered no automatic recourse for advertisers whose consent runs alongside hateful posts. They did not address why facebook recommends hateful groups and didnt address rampant disinformation
Family. Mike bloombergs gaffs are growing by the day. Latest insult hurled at farmers. He defend it. All that and so much more on making money. Charles individual investors are getting in a really good mood. The nasdaq up 8 1 2 in 2020. All the markets are closed today, nasdaq and s p did close in record territory on friday. Earnings continuing to have a monster quarter. Revenue up to 30 trillion, that is a three month period for Companies Reporting from the s p. The next pig one big one to report will be walmart. Whether the economic momentum will continue, advisor to President Trump, steve moore. Steve, thanks for joining us. Hi, charles. Charles lets start with this proposal other potential proposal to help americans get started in the stock market. How would that work . Let me be clear this is just a proposal. The white house and my buddy larry kudlow are working on a lot of ideas but one of the ones were interested in a cut would allow people to put 5 to 10,000 he have year, charl
You can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Michael we begin with york host we begin with your thoughts. The last of the u. S. Forces have left syria as fighting between turkey and the kurds escalate over the weekend. Your reaction to the president s decisions. We will get to your thoughts in a minute. Lets begin with mark esper, the defense secretary on the sunday shows. He was on face the nation, and here is what he had to say about the decision to withdraw these troops. [indiscernible] a deliberate [video clip] a deliberate withdraw from the entire country . From Northern Syria. 1000 troops. How long and over what time period . It will be a deliberate withdraw and we want to conduct it as safely as possible. We want to make sure we deconflict a pullback of forces and dont leave equipment behind. I am not prepared to put a timeline on it. You said you are doing this for u. S. Force protection. The armies are advancing after the u. S. Pulled back, after the u. S. Air force,