Come whichrevious also been revised higher. There was some expedition that as prices come up because of the fact you can get cheap lending at the moment or cheap borrowing , you would expect that at some have, that would start to an impact on a month by month basis. Nevertheless, the market was looking for this month on month number two actually slow, and that hasnt happened, which is really interesting and the light of what we are starting to see in the employment market. We saw initial jobless claims out a little bit earlier on. Youre starting to see the negative data could begin from the employment side of the economy, starting to come in a little softer. Bloombergs mike mckee joining us now with the details of that. Michael at one point on the housing numbers, existing home sales or closings, so these contracts were signed a couple of months ago when things were a little better in the economy, and we got low mortgage rates, so the one thing the fed has been able to do is stimulate
Reported hes been isolating with his family. There was a covid concern. Out of an abundance of caution, theyre isolating. There was a covid concern with some of his kids. Heres the bottom line. Heres what we gleaned from this afternoon. Again, there was a lot to die jef jest. He went into great detail about how the vaccine or vaccines will be distributed and how the state will help. The governor said the state will not be distributing the vaccines. Instead that will be up to the Drug Companies partnering with your health care provider. For example, if you go to kaiser or sutter haelealth, they would have it. However, the state will help in the distribution. Also today a third possible vaccine was announced by astrazeneca and oxford university. So now moving forward, among the pressing questions, do we have a choice on which vaccine to take, and who gets it first . It shouldnt surprise anybody that the phase one vaccination Distribution Plan in terms of prioritization is focusing first
Because Network Effect has forced traditional financiers to change their tune on the digital currency. And this is black rocks, c i o, o of fixed income, he told c. N. N. B. B. C. Last friday. His name is rick reader, he said, big queen is here to stay while conceding, that he is not a big bowl reader, said the flagship currency will quote, take the place of gold to a large extent because it is so more functional than passing a bar of gold around, right . This is a remarkable statement because weve heard the argument that big coin is goal to point out that its a prayer to gold, but that has come from the internet from social media, from heterodox thinkers like ourselves. Its not come from a 7 trillion dollar managed fund like blackrock and were hearing it from other folks like Paul Tudor Jones stent arthur miller. And although theres 100. 00 trillion dollars out there looking for a home as part of a managed money environment, they are 7 percent of that 100 trillion dollars of only one
The open this morning we will get really close again to 30000 on the dow. Heres another positive in all the transition from trump to biden has begun and investors like it, the dow was up 1 , 300 points, s p up three quarters in the nasdaq up close to half a percentage point, lots of green this morning and theres this, john kerry is back, the climate envoy and will sit on the National Security council, not good news for Americas Energy independence. Kerry will try to take us back into the paris climate record, but here is a guy taking us to the future, elon musk, yesterday as tesla stock rallied musk gained 7 billion in one day, he is worth 128 billion in the last week he surpassed Mark Zuckerberg and bill gates to become the second richest in the world, jeff bezos remains firmly in the number one spot. On todays show lets celebrate thanksgiving, the timing on the restrictions but resistance is growing, scott shalit he will join us from arizona hes part of the great exodus and will take
Global news 24 hours a day on air and on bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. I am Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. I am vonnie quinn. Welcome to Bloomberg Markets here are the top stories we are following. Covid vaccine in the ether again. Pfizer says a final analysis of the chemical trials data shows its vaccine was 95 effective. Free han the 90 previously. Michael stubblefield, ceo of of and later we will speak to the ceo of intact financial. It would be the biggest acquisition of a u. K. Listed company this year. A quick check of the markets. For the most part, not doing much. The s p 500 unchained. The 10 year yield under 88 basis points. Weakk dollar index a dollar index. We have a slightly smaller dollar. Investors keeping an eye on vaccine development. Tor provides materials for vaccine candidates. The president and ceo Michael Stubblefield joins us for more. Michael, you provide Raw Materials for most of these vaccines