To the upside. Other news coming through about approvals for future houses as well. The asx up 119 points. Thats move along and look at other Asset Classes. Crude trading yesterday with a 33 handle, hasnt had a huge rally since then. Part of that is down to russia and opec looking like they will not be hiking reduction in january. That news helping to propel oil prices up to over 97 in the last six hours or so. ,old remaining where it was just shy of the 1900 level. Thats ahead of the u. S. Election. The u. S. Dollar index marginally down, the Rate Decision coming expecting a 0. 15 cut in the base rate and we do have in anticipation of all that move slightly higher than that, and thats down to a commodity related currency and the crude price helping that along. Lets head over to new york and join karina mitchell. We start with the latest headlines on the pandemic. Starling fell to its weakest in the month, with an economy already reeling from similar measures earlier this year. France
Finalizing a blank check operation around the frenzy. Haidi trying to take that winning streak into a seventh straight session. Retrading pretty optimistically. We are seeing gains about. 25 when it comes out the gate. The aussie dollar trading on the back. We are seeing gains for almost two weeks straight now ahead of the federal election. At kiwi dollar is sitting 37. We are seeing almost no change through the open. Have nikkei futures not doing much at the moment. Is at a oneweek high the u. S. Dollar dollar. 15 on year. E than from those that we saw in session. Operations restarting. Speak, theng, as we morning training trading has been lead due to the storm. We are talking about the Tropical Storm being upgraded to a storm signal eight. Options have been delayed. They will make a further later, but there will be no morning a warning isuch lowered. Dominating across the markets. Lets turn to tom mackenzie. We have been talking about trade tensions when it comes to australia. Haidi
Total request fast money copping yocop coming your way at the top of the hour tweet us all your burning questions. New guidance from the cdc on when we can expect a coronavirus vaccine. Meg terrell joins us with the developing details. This information comes in the form of a letter that dr. Robert redfield sent to governors we have confirms this letter and have a copy of it. He tells the governors that health and Human Services and the cdc are, quote, rapidly making preparations to implement large scale distributions of covid19 vaccines in the fall. He asks that as they make these preparations, that they consider waiving requirements that would prevent any facilities from becoming fully operational by november 1st my understanding of this from folks ive been talking with in the government is not that they are saying a vaccine will be ready by november 1st. Were showing you the enrollment progress in phase three trials for pfizer and moderna what that deadline really is, is to encourage
Years. And lots to come on the show. Two big ceo interviews on the back of earnings in a few minutes well speck to the owner of Outback Steakhouse blooking brands and later the ceo of boston beer will join us that stock surging after the truly hard seltzer brand helped boost sales. Looking forward to both of those interviews were down. 6 lets get to the big stories were watching meg tirell has more on the signing. And mike san totoli is joining s meg, let aers start with youen that executive order news. Hi. Drug pricing hasnt been in the conversation as much this year as the drug industry has been racing to develop vaccines and drugs for covid19 but the president reportedly planning to sign an executive order with a few different aspects on drug price this is afternoon. One could be allowing importation of drugs from canada where theyre price moored cheaply. Another could focus on tying prices to basket of prices from other wealthy countries. And a third could focus on providing free i
Where we bring you todays market moving news from around the world, from hong kong to london, madrid, paris, and washington. We want to start with the latest trade development. President trump signals he would be willing to wait for another year before striking a trade agreement with china. Pres. Trump in some ways, i like the idea of waiting until after the election for the china deal, but they want to make a deal now. We will see whether or not the deal is going to be right. Its got to be right. Alix joining me from hong kong is enda curran. This is very different from what we heard yesterday from President Trump. Value, it is clearly the strongest signal we have had yet from the white house that we may not have this trade agreement by the end of the year. I think it will probably, something of a shock to both the chinese and Global Investors who have pretty much been banking on some kind of agreement by the yearend. But remember, we still have this deadline of december 15 for when t