11. 6 billion deal on the top of the spanish 600. Part of the solution. Saying europes banks have come a long way since the last crisis and the sector is key to the recovery translator it is only with strong banks and Strong Capital market, europe can afford the means to fight the consequences of the europe pandemic for the first time President Trump publicly admits joe biden won the election but refuses to concede. Meeting with top vaccine makers as coronavirus cases across the u. S. Top 11 million. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the start of a new trading week lets get you right into the market action. The hand over from asia was pretty positive. The nikkei and the highest level ever positive data coming out of china. Industrial production beating expectations retail sales a miss but the strongest level it has been. Weve had news of the latest trade agreement signed in the asia pacific alongside china abolishing tariffs for 92 of the region another positive boost for stocks over
Close at the open. The road map begins with that renewed vaccine optimism and detailing their own strong data. Plus as for the market, the u. S. Stocks poised for new records and the futures are and investor optimism about that vaccine and dow is within striking distance of 30,000. We have a lot of deals this morning. Pnc looking to become one of americas largest banks and set to buy spanish bank and 11. 6 billion the Purchase Price and other deals to tell you about this morning carl lets start with the moderna news excellent news for the second week in a row. Dr. Fauci on some of the networks earlier today saying the data are striking and the results are just as good as it gets i really think we have to go back just a couple months and recognize that even if we had any hope that there would be a successful vaccine maybe 70 , 80 . 50 to 60 for the flu is something we learned moderna Insider Selling was bad and turns out the Insider Selling was bad meaning they sold badly i do think wha
Soaring today. Meg tirrell with details. The bar was very high for moderna after pfizers efficacy last week. Mad earn moderna met the 94 percent efficacy and will seek the fda emergency authorization in the coming weeks. We just talked to the doctor who has been leading the vaccine and Drug Development as part of operation warp speed about the significance of this moment, really seeing two vaccines in a row at this high level of efficacy heres what he said. Its an extraordinary outcome, frankly, to have two different vaccines tested in different conditions by two Different Companies developed independently yield very similar outcomes this gives a huge confidence into the data obtained and really suggests that the 90 percent and more efficacy is true and real. But of course, melissa, as were getting this extremely good news it comes at a time in the pandemic when weve never been seeing more daily cases, were seeing 140,000 a day on average right now. And were seeing more and more people
The year dow is set for a record close, approaching 30,000 with 59 minutes left of trade. Up 1 2 on the dow sara 29,830 currently. Coming up todays show, we are waiting president elect biden to make some comments on the economy. His economic plan that should come any minute. We will take you there live. In the meantime, a rare interview with operation warp speeds dr. Slaoui he will weigh in on the moderna news and what the rollout will look like. Plus the positive vaccine theus with mark moabious his eye on emerging markets. And mike wilson saying next year will be all about earnings we will discuss with Morgan Stanleys chief u. S. Equity specialist mike santoli joins us. Meg tirrell has the latest on covid19 news. Eamon javers will go over president elect biden speech on the economy when we get there. Lets start with mike santoli. We below on the s p 500 where we were this morning, by about a third of a percent below last monday mornings high about a third of a percent but looking at
Platforms. Were only in this studio and together. Were making sure you stay safe, everybody. Stay safe, stay safe, increase in streets safe. Another cold with vaccine, a hopeful u. S. Pharma company, modernity. Jab, scholz, 95 percent africas ian trials. That as germany is pondering, even stricter measures to rein in the pandemic. Also coming as development, i think over 19 vaccine makes progress plans to distribute it around the globe are also on the way and once a price tag for the remains of a troubled company, spain, sometime there picks up wire cards, cord, European Business for a 100000000 euros im chris cuomo in berlin. Welcome to the program, and then there were 2 of us former firm, and ernest says trials of its corona virus vaccine candidate show it is 95 percent effective as the 2nd company to announce successful trials after fires there. And by on tag last week, it will still take time for the actual vaccine to be certified. But already there is the question. Will there be e