Over the weekend an i. T. Firm said foot traffic in tokyo remained unchanged from a week earlier. Thats based on mobile phone data gathered with users consent. But there are far fewer visitors in Tourist Spots outside the capital compared to the november 23rd long weekend. The number of people was down 38 in china town south of to tokyo. People are also getting prepared for the new year holiday season. A shrine is selling new years lu lucky charms earlier than usual. I thought it would be better to visit now than over new ye s years. It will be so crowded and we need to be mindful of others. We cant aany infections from shrine, so i want people to visit between december and february so we dont see crowds over new years. Officials reported 1,425 new cases across the countrien on monday. More than 149,000 people in japan have been infected since the pandemic began. Over 2,100 people have died. The price tag of the tokyo listens and paralympics continues to rise after the games were postp
Companys shares slumped after reports it could be added to the u. S. Blacklist. Discord rains. Oil retreats as opec fails before todays meeting. The uae and pakistan are said to be opposed to the current cuts. 6 00 a. M. In london. It has just gone 10 00 a. M. In the dad. Rally . Uld stop the maybe if yields bust above 1 , but that looks highly unlikely in a world of quasiyield controls. Good to have you back in hq. Annmarie good morning, manus. Glad to be back in london hq. One of the things the market seemingly continues to forget about, but this weekend we heard from all the top experts in the united states. Dr. Deborah birx saying postthanksgiving we are already seeing the disease likely. S 10 times more awake is w keeps her awake is what could happen after memorial day. Aboutey are dealing with 100,000 infections a day. Manus go to the front of bloomberg. Com. We have the headlines coming up across the bloomberg terminal at the moment. Take a look at bloomberg. Com because at the
Will try to fill in his space as he expresses his culinary abilities. Francine we will get clarification on what he is working on. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika good morning. S p global is on the verge of a giant deal in the Financial Information industry. Bloomberg has learned that the company is in advanced talks to for 44s markets billion. An agreement could be announced as soon as today. It would be the second biggest deal of the year. President trumps coronavirus taskforces propping promising a rapid rollout of the vaccine to 2 million americans i the end of the year. The Surgeon General expects that most americans will have access by early in the second quarter. He says the government hopes to quickly ok requests from two drugmakers for emergency approval of their vaccines. A group of opecplus ministers could reach an agreement on whether to delay januarys oil a fullincrease, before meeting of the cartel and its allies today.
Talks continue into today. The s p global is in advanced talks to buy ihs mobile markets in what would be one of the biggest deals of the year. A very warm welcome to the program, everybody. Just under one hour away from the start of cash equity trading for European Equity markets. Good to be back in the studio. Thats have a look at the future is and what they tell us about where we are headed this monday morning. Futures dont look great. European features move to the downside. The Asian Session has been fairly negative. These have been record months for global stocks. Rebalancing at the end of the month perhaps is part of the story here. We will talk to the market live team about this shortly. Lets take a look at what is going on on the gmm. Some of the weakest in the weakness in the Asian Session, down one point 3 on the msci asia pacific. Indonesia under pressure. A host of emerging markets under pressure. China outperforming a little today. The Manufacturing Activity we referenced
Fishing license. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. Im Francine Lacqua in london. It is the last trading day in november. Certainly a lot of traders will be feeling the same, but stocks are dropping after this recordbreaking rally. A bit of a pullback on the last day of the month, capping this recordbreaking rally. Oil sliding after ministers failed to reach an agreement on supply. Small caps, energy and companies, banks, that group has been leading the rally in november. Today, a bit of profit taking. A couple of other things im watching for is the price of oil. We talked about that, encouraging news on brexit, which is why we see sterling at 1. 3333. The portuguese 10 year yield come i like that because we are on zero watch, or negative watch for that yield. Word newsyour first with leighann gerrans. Opecplus has failed to agree on an allay to januarys height. Many members support keeping production at current levels but the United Arab Emirates and kazakhstan oppose the move unless