Selloff and a dollar selloff at the same time . What does that actually mean . We will break that down as well. Guy and youve got bitcoin rocketing to a record high. Out of the United States, pending home sales month on month a little weaker than anticipated, 1. 1 . Expected at 1 . The prior number revised a little higher. These have absolutely rocketed. The year on your number now stands at plus 19. 5 , which is another incredible number to think about. Lets get back to the vaccine. Is monday, and every monday morning it seems we get some news. Moderna is planning to request clearance for its Coronavirus Vaccine in the u. S. And europe today. Ceo speaking earlier to bloomberg. We have millions of doses ready. We have more and more every couple of days. Joining us now is robert. He spoke a little earlier on. I think they have a review coming up on the 17th. After the potential clearance on that date, how quickly can we get things up and running . Robert they have been told in publicu.
Over the weekend. We are inching closer to that alltime high when it comes to laterchina that was set september. Of focus. Was one those are the biggest movers here today and in particular, they may be looking at that emergency in tokyo and some of the surrounding areas as well as hokkaido. Those are holding amid some of and we are tensions watching currencies as well. We are obviously watching dollar china and dollaryen. You are seeing some of these china proxies following the ram be lower. Forward markete with plenty of action. Citigroup saying we are not bullish. Someg that there should be caution on these simmering tensions. Ringgit inthe particular are ones we should be focusing on. Be closed later on. End ofsed as we mark the the ramadan festival. Asiahief north correspondent is watching development for us. Where does hong kong stand . Questionsa lot more to the power play by beijing invoke its own security laws, basically being rubberstamped, to impose that on hong kong, bypassi
Attention to the virus to aid in war against the pandemic, live tomorrow morning for special interview you dont want to miss. Do stay with us for that. This morning pointing to higher opening. Take a look at future, up better 250 points on dow industrials, s p is up 29 and nasdaq higher by 116 this morning, this after the dow, nasdaq, s p ended down last week. As you can see better in the dow and s p. Google parent alphabet, microsoft, facebook, amazon, Technology Names reporting earnings this week and at the end exxon reporting numbers. Holding china responsible. Senator tom cotton telling me the coronavirus escaping its borders was a deliberate attack by the chinese and calling for action against the Chinese Communist party. Plus questions rolling with the health of north Korean Leader kim jong un as he remains unseen. Mornings with maria begins right now. Global markets this morning are rallying, take a look at europe indices, ftse 100 up 95 points, cac quarante in paris is up 86 an
For the s p 500, 139 above the moving average. Romaine on a weekly basis, there are only two stocks that finished in the green in the s p 500, and those were both speculative plays around the coronavirus. Sector andal quick looking at, Energy Stocks, small energy up 4. 5 . This is a sector that got up litter rated. No new bond issues. Lets check in with our reporters and see what they are keeping an eye on. Abigail, lets get started. Abigail lets get started. This is the worst week since 2008. As they had that small move. He said watch after 350. That is when the by that can happen. That might be why we saw the better clothes than expected, but when we put it in the theyxt of the longer term, absolutely sliced through the 200day moving average. Here is the moving average and blue. In yellow, the 100week moving average. When that has happen in the past, for the most part, it has signaled that we are likely to go down to the 200day moving average, which suggests more bearish action is ah
To sell their home again, and you have no idea what it costs. The metropolitan police is to pay the former mp Harvey Proctor £900,000 in compensation and legal costs he was wrongly accused of being part of a westminster paedophile ring. A manuscript written by elizabeth i is discovered a translation of a book praising the monarchy, complete with her distinctive messy handwriting. Unai emery is sacked as arsenal manager after 18 months in charge. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The energy firm npower is set to cut up to 4,500 jobs in the uk as it plans to restructure to make itself more profitable. Unions have called the move a cruel blow for workers. The company, which is german owned, described the uk market as particularly challenging. Npower has a uk workforce of around 5,700 staff. They announced plans injanuary to cut 900 jobs. Npowers owners, e. 0n said that profit for the first nine months of its Financial Year fell 27 to two billion pounds. Lets get more from our B