Treasury yield target. Chancellor merkel looks to repair the transatlantic trade ties but bidens Irish Heritage threatens the u. K. s special relationship as his views around a hard border in ireland remains central to brexit talk. Welcome to the program, everybody. Just under one hour to go until the start of cash equities trading. Lets have a look at where users have us positioned. We saw a strong appetite for risk assets last week and that continues with the big news over the weekend about president elect biden. Point 21. 550 futures percent, echoed by ftse futures and dax futures. Buyave a sense of if not everything, buy risk and treasuries. We are not seeing full wholehearted embrace of the fixed income asset class this morning. This is what got on the global stocks outlook. Mastec futures outperforming. A lot of this had to do with hyden the optimism around what President Biden might do around stimulus although there is a senate conversation. What does this mean for reflation . W
Republican leader Mitch Mcconnell says President Trump is right to protest the vote cap. The u. S. Sanctions more people in hong kong over chinas increasing control. Washington has suspended its treaty with hong kong and ended reciprocal treatments on shipping. Haidi lets take a look at this market situation we are setting up for. It is firmly risk on after all the really bullish view overnight on account of the high efficacy from the biotech vaccine. Asx 200 trading higher by 1 10 of 1 . It is a handful of asiapacific markets there is or going into overboard territory. One of those is new zealand. We are seeing kiwi stocks of about 9 10 of 1 . We have the rbnz decision ahead of us this week but that market is up now for six consecutive sessions. Nikkei futures reversing pretty dramatically at the moment. Above looking at opening 25,000 for the first time in 30 years. Trading at thell highest since november 1991. A quick look when it comes to u. S. Futures as well. S p active futures u
Fromw a bit of whip sawing the euphoria we saw yesterday on the back of the vaccine that was very promising from pfizer and biontech. Lets go straight to the markets and give you an idea of what they are doing this tuesday morning. The focus is on gold, some other things. For example, such as european stocks in general. Again, im excited to speak about the vaccine euphoria and some of the hurdles ahead. Maybe a little bit of profittaking after the rally we saw the last few days. Maybe the question of the vaccine is the question of the day. Bloombergto first word news and laura wright. Lauara the European Union is imposing tax on 4 billion of u. S. Good starting today as part of that titfortat escalation. Spirits, nuts, tractors and videogames. The eu says it will drop the duties if the u. S. Dropped levees imposed back in 2019. The u. K. House of lords has rejected breaking International Law over brexit. Voted to remove the most controversial part of the bill which comes with legal act
Individual sacrifices and in many parts of europe and in north america in particular there are many things that each of us can do the decisions that we make every day about avoiding crowded spaces about avoiding in close settings for prolonged periods of time about postponing some of those gatherings that we may want to have an exact of faces that we all have to make. And pharmaceutical giant pfizer says its late stage hope in 1000 vaccine trial is nearly fully enrolled the company is phase 3 trial is just 2000 volunteers shy of the 44000 needed the company said during an Earnings Call Tuesday Morning pfizer and biotechs drug is viewed as one of the worlds most promising vaccine candidates while the company had said it hoped to have data on the efficacy of the vaccine by the end of this month during the call pfizer c. E. O. Albert borlase said this of the situation in case of a conclusive readout we will inform the public as soon as we complete the necessary administrative work which w
Largest economy later on well dig into the ruling and what issues lie ahead in the dispute with a packed show today so lets dive right in. And we lead the program with the latest warning from the Global Health officials as the world continues to deal with the latest surge in coal but 900 cases with the latest wave the World Health Organization on monday said that while reimposing Strict Lockdown measures may be needed to slow the spread of the virus these actions can be avoided if everyone does their part i think we have to. Look at that very seriously in the context of the European Union in the context of the region as a whole theres a lot of Free Movement and therefore those principles it may require and shutting down and restricting movement and having stay at home orders in order to take the heat out of this phase of the pandemic we can avoid National Lockdowns we can avoid massive restrictive movements if everyone plays their part it means individual sacrifices and in many parts o