Is that right . Everyone has no doubt used bandaids or tylenol. Those products are wellknown products produced by Johnson Johnson. Johnson johnson is also a giant in many other areas, and is now taking a leading role in preparing a vaccine for covid19. Its ceo is alex gorsky, a west point trained former military man who has done an incredible job over the last eight years making this company the most valuable Health Care Company. Now, some people say the most commonly spoken words in the english language today are can you hear me because of the zoom phenomenon, but i assume in your case, the most commonly asked question is when is the vaccine coming . You must be getting asked this every hour on the hour. I will do this as well. When is your vaccine coming . Alex its usually about every 15 minutes i get asked that. Let me start by saying i could not be more proud of the incredible work that our scientists and our engineers have been doing over the past nine months to put us in the posi
Against a u. S. Company in decades. Google says the government case is deeply flawed. Late tradenges in after missing on subscribers last quarter. Its outlook for the current period is below expectations and investors are not happy. Haidi we are just getting a little bit more of an update on these ongoing stimulus discussions in washington, d. C. Nancy pelosi saying she is optimistic a deal can be done before the election and that she is calling on Committee Chairs to resolve some of the differences when it comes to funding levels and language so they can get back to negotiations between her and secretary mnuchin as soon as possible, crucially saying she remains hopeful an agreement will be safer, bigger, and better, and will be retroactive as well. We are seeing that reaction when it comes to the futures markets. Lets look at the asian trading day. Sophie kamaruddin is here with us in hong kong. Seeing s pare eminis gain ground and a muted start in asia with the asx 200 coming online
Equity futures lower on the ftse. The s p 500 went down. Bid into the bond market. Into the bond market we go, negative almost 60 basis points on a 10 year. Its like a throwback to our days together five years ago. There is some weight to this. Good morning. Annmarie certainly, it is. Were so excited to have you back. An absolute gladbac bloodbath, nymex dropping below 39 as the resurgence of cases in europe not going to bode well on the demand side. The supplyside worried about libyan oil barrels. Softer. A bit this is the prospect of fresh stimulus. That helped treasury yields rise. Jonathan thank you. Lets get the first word news this morning. We can do that with laura wright. Laura china is laying out a new plan for Economic Growth this week in beijing. President xi jinping is holding a meeting to decide on the next fiveyear plan. Its expected to focus on technological innovation, economic selfreliance, and the environment. But the event is closed to the press. Key decisions wont b
Chinas leaders meet to draft their next fiveyear economic plan and the virus recovery. We are live in beijing. Adi terry warning warning from the World Health Organization. We are in a dangerous place. We are not going to control the virus. Are we perfectly positioned for risk . I take you to the changing risk in the polls. And thethe bond market polls. A blue sweep from a 62 probability to 51 probability in a month. It is a curve. Overextended to the upside. These are the markets this morning with the risk from the white house. We are not going to control the pandemic. There are lockdowns in spain. Are you pricing equity market risk appropriately . Markets are trading what they see, not on what they hope. Goldman sachs say you will have to reach for risk. Stocks could outperform the credit markets into 2021. I take you into the response mechanism on the australian dollar, a high beta trade. There, the rba could strike next week with lower rates. You just shredded the cost of hedging a
Billionaires index. Raise 30 5ting to billion in hong kong and shanghai. Aviation in australia. Alice springs emerges as the ideal place to store passenger planes left idle by the coronavirus. Shery. Shery breaking news out of south korea. We are getting the preliminary thirdquarter gdp numbers and we are seeing the quarter on quarter the economy has grown 1. 9 , which is beating expectations of 1. 3 and this is also coming after its first recession since 2003. We saw a contraction of more than 3 in the previous Second Quarter. Youre on your, still a contraction of 1. 3 but its a much smaller contraction than was expected and it is also a contraction that has eased from the previous quarter. We have seen growth and strength when it comes to south koreas exports and manufacturing industries. Thirdquarter manufacturing actually growing 7. 6 quarter on quarter when you look at the details in the gdp numbers. We have seen the rebound in china. South koreas biggest trading partner helping i