Elusive. And suppose he says the house is. Transformed samsung into a global tech giant has died. Paul lets take a look at the markets right now. The asx in australia has just opened for trade at the start of the new week. We do have a staggered open. Pretty hard to get a bead on things. Pretty flat at the moment. We are waiting for cocacola to open on the news of this deal that the European Partners are moving to acquire the Company Valued at 9. 3 billion to underscore some of the consolidation going on. The aussie dollar holding a threeyear gain as the u. S. Stimulus talks continue to drag on. U. S. Futures looking a little weaker as well as nancy pelosi and mark meadows but he might accuse each other of quote, moving the goal post. Nikkei futures are pointing weaker as well. That is going to be a busy earnings week in japan. Starting off with kanaan reporting today with cannon reporting today. Lets start off with china at where the leaders are gathering in beijing to map out the fiv
The session with fourth days of gains with the dow industrials up 31 points. Much of the rally dissipating and then some. Nasdaq down by theless, s p down 15 at 4 00 oclock on wall street. Tiktokoracle deal uncertainty. President trump to reveal the deal today as the white house pushing for u. S. Control of the chinese app. Origins of russia tab, subpoena obama officials now and senator Lindsay Graham announcing when jim comey will testify in front of senate judiciary. Coming up at 7 10 a. M. Doug collins with more on that and pressure hes putting on apple after records show phones belonging to muellers team were wiped. Find out who will be playing joe biden on saturday night live. The bank of england out with its own Rate Decision in about an hour. Investors would be watching for any news of added stimulus and what the forecast is for the broader economy in the year ahead. In asia overnight, red across the board as well. The bank of japan left Interest Rates unchanged and says the eco
Biontech, seeing a bounce. We know that pfizer is not a hype company its a big conservative company. When it sees things that are not working it is quick to say it. When it sees things that are working it is long to say it in other words, this is not a company that is a brag Guard Company so i am very surprised to see them come out this early. They must feel a level of confidence that is extraordinary versus what they typically do. David, youve known pfizer for very long, you know that pfizer is one of those companies that i guess you would regard as stodgy and certainly not a company that likes to get ahead of itself no. You would have to put it in that category, i think, so it is interesting that this has been shared as meg said and as we know 24 patients, jim, is not a lot. Very positive it would appear at this point i think always important to mention, though, that when we talk about a vaccine we are talking about the need for largescale trials as soon as possible because, of cours
Of that will be technical selling. The bond market is a little bit unusual not so much happening in yields here, but in europe you are seeing pretty strong support. The time now for the market moving news from our new york team. We want to begin with china and that historic economic slump. Ae first contraction in backdated. We have our correspondent with all of the details. Mike it was actually worse than you expected, 6. 8 decline, the worst since they started reporting quarterly in china back in 1992. The economy has not contracted the fullyear basis since 1970s. We will watch that. One reason the numbers were not worse, if you look at the second number, smaller than expected, Industrial Production of on. 1 , factories returning to work. The problem for them is with the rest of the world unlock and there is nobody to buy their stuff. Consumers are not buying. Lockdowns were lifted but people are still reluctant to go out and spend. Retail sales down 15. 8 this is important because th
Whats being done to modernize the library of congress. We heard testimony from dr. Carla hayden, the librarian of congress. This is a little more than an hour. [inaudible] who also chairs the appropriated committee for library and i think thats particularly helpful that you could be here as well. Also a member of this committee so shes here as a of the committee but also on these topics, particularly fallible in her role as appropriate. We have been having with the library, with the smithsonian, with the architect of the capitol these kinds of oversight hearings to fulfill that responsibility and be sure were giving the agencies to help they need. Were glad to be here of course with the librarian, dr. Carla hayden, with mr. Barton, the chief Information Officer and your temple, the register of copyrights. Thank all of you for being here today. I think we want to talk primarily police i want to talk primarily about monetization. We had a chance with dr. Hayden at the last meeting to tal