And responsibility commitment needs to be kept and contracts are binding advance Purchase Agreement needs to be respect today we have developed a system that will allow us to know whether vaccines are being exported from the e. U. This increase transparency will also come with the responsibility for the e. U. To authorize with no Member States these vaccine exports us drug from johnson and johnson is the latest Pharmaceutical Company expected to apply for emergency use authorization for its vaccine in the u. S. Next week they said single dose job appears to be at least 66 percent effective in preventing coronavirus the dutch court of appeals has ruled that Oil Giant Shell was paid compensation to a group of nigerian farms cuse the company of destroying their fishing villages as a result of 3 or spills. Memos military is refusing to rule out the possibility of a coup in the aftermath of last years election it says it was fraudulent and sense that shes governing party won a majority of s
A work has reportedly restarted on the controversial nord stream 2 gas pipeline in the baltic sea almost a year after u. S. Sanctions brought the german russian project to a halt u. S. Argues the pipeline is meant to isolate ukraine and divide the e. U. On saturday its ambassador to germany robin quintile repeated calls for germany to end the 1000000000. 00 project. Work is underway once again on the north stream 2 pipeline German Authorities have given the go ahead for the russian ship academic cesky to lay another 2. 6 kilometers of pipe by the end of the year but that is nowhere near enough to complete the project a total of 160 kilometers still have to be laid. Only then with the underwater pipeline be ready allowing russian state owned Company Gazprom to deliver siberian gas directly. To germany. For that the u. S. Has been watching developments with alarm late last week american lawmakers added measures against the baltic sea pipeline to the annual Defense Budget these provide fo
A virus vaccine has shown to be more than 89 percent effective during a trial in the United Kingdom the company is now expected to apply for regulatory review preliminary analysis also suggest the vaccine is effective against the new variant of covert 901st found in the u. K. Germanys Vaccine Panel looks likely to recommend astra zeneca as jab only for people under 65 years old the Committee Says there is not enough data on how effective it is on those who are old european regulators are said to issue their decision on the vaccine on friday. Brazils president jaya bolzan otto has vowed to quickly vaccinate everybody in the country as his popularity falls brazilians are angry at the governments slow vaccine rollout want to see an archive has more from rio de janeiro. On the one side hes saying that hes going to vaccinate brazilians fast on the other side hes he and he has changed his tune with china as well he has been attacked in china and china is working with brazil to produce the co
Doing what it can but also she says that the public may need to temper its expectations this is only the very beginning of what is a deep dive into the origin of the war in a virus and to expect any conclusive finding in the next few weeks is unrealistic this could in fact take he is the new u. S. Secretary of state blinken says if iran returns to full compliance some of the 2050 Nuclear Agreement the u. S. Will also come back to the deal donald trump pulled out of the 3 months and 21000. 00. Lincoln also announced a temporary halt in arms sales to saudi arabia and the u. A. E. Donald Trumps Administration had been doing defense deals down to the wire and trading one for 50 f. 35 fighter jets from Lockheed Martin to the u. A. E. U. S. President joe biden has signed executive orders to address the Climate Crisis that includes cutting fossil fuel subsidies and opposing oil and gas leases on federal land biden says Climate Change that the center of the u. S. National security and foreign
The dow is down nearly 1 . The nasdaq is back in positive territory. Apple is boosting the dow adding 150 points to a decline we would be seeing. Amazon and facebook arent in that index caterpillar, chevron, exxon mobile are driving the blue chips lower. Lets start with bob who will tell us what were seeing from earning season as a whole now that were a little more than halfway through. Bob. We have a little bit of a problem. Its great may have tech earnings are fantastic but theyre not enough to move the market really forward. You can see this today just look at the sectors of whats going on. You have technology up because apple is up. You have Consumer Discretionary up because amazon is up. Everything else, the other economy is having hard time. Tech earnings are even fantastic. We have this two tier economy thats going on. Its not a split between wall street and main street its just theres a two tier economy. One part is digital and thats the megacap tech and software and the Techno