Measures on its own to stem the spread meantime the president elect forming his inner circle as President Trumps legal team hitting another brick wall and besting the bitcoin . You betcha the crypto asset outperforming them all its our rbi on this monday, november 23rd, this is worldwide exchange. Well, good monday morning, good afternoon or good evening and welcome from wherever in the world that you may be watching im Brian Sullivan good to have you on the program this morning its becoming a trend lately now, mondays, vaccine mondays now tending to show positive data in the fight against covid. And today is no exception. Look at that stock futures they are up, dow futures up 208 nasdaq futures up 50 the markets are getting a boost this morning on news from astrazeneca and Oxford University that broke just hours ago. The university saying its covid19 vaccine was found to be as much as 90 effective in preventing infections without serious side effects in a large Clinical Trial in the u
There is quite a lot going on in the markets mainly because of the threshold that markets crossed yesterday. Lets have a look at what that means for european stocks and even the global stocks rally pausing. We did have the best monthly gain in three decades. Investors awaiting a lot of Economic Indicators that could support the. Rally in risk assets. We have Consumer Confidence and of course personal income. We did have a gauge of asia pacific shares gaining. Above 45 alding barrel, and i also wanted to show you bitcoin and a second, because they were also, you know, within a sliver of a record high for bitcoin. At 19,130. It now lets get to the bloomberg first word news in london with leighann gerrans. Hi, leighann. Leighann good morning, francine. France will gradually start using its lockdown from sunday. Museums will follow suit from december 15, but restaurants will remain closed. President Emmanuel Macron says vaccinations could start at the end of december or in early january. M
Disclosed his firm, what that thens for the stock, and a rough week for banks. Reports of suspicious transactions and backlash against wells fargo ceo, but there could be some positive factors ahead. My colleagues, ben levisohn, carlton english. Ben, im going to start with you. Weve been chatting this week about the market, and you kept on saying stocks are behaving in a weird way. Whats so unusual in. The week started pretty badly, fears about covid resurgence in europe that really knocked the market down. It built with the questions about economic stimulus and the likelihood that we wont get any, fears about the economy, about the election. And the market kept dropping, and it really looked like good news wasnt going to matter much. Nikes earnings were great, it didnt help the overall market. Darden, which owns the olive garden, it reinstated its dividend, this is a restaurant stock. But, again, that didnt have any big effect on the market. And even when california announced that it
Disclosed his firm, what that thens for the stock, and a rough week for banks. Reports of suspicious transactions and backlash against wells fargo ceo, but there could be some positive factors ahead. My colleagues, ben levisohn, carlton english. Ben, im going to start with you. Weve been chatting this week about the market, and you kept on saying stocks are behaving in a weird way. Whats so unusual in. The week started pretty badly, fears about covid resurgence in europe that really knocked the market down. It built with the questions about economic stimulus and the likelihood that we wont get any, fears about the economy, about the election. And the market kept dropping, and it really looked like good news wasnt going to matter much. Nikes earnings were great, it didnt help the overall market. Darden, which owns the olive garden, it reinstated its dividend, this is a restaurant stock. But, again, that didnt have any big effect on the market. And even when california announced that it
Worsen, suspending imports of australian coal. Disney jumping a late trade on a management shakeup and a focus on streaming through a newmedia unit. We hear from the ceo. Check of howget a the markets are trading. We are seeing u. S. Futures coming online pretty much flat. We saw u. S. Stocks climbing to an almost sixweek high we had a rally. The s p 500 gaining ground. We also had financials pretty strong, gaining more than 1 ahead of earnings season. Jp morgan and citigroup reporting tomorrow. It was really about this years trade that really led the rally. The nasdaq composite gaining more than 2. 5 . Amazon soaring ahead of its prime day. Apple also jumping. The product unveiling but its price target was raised by rbc Capital Markets. Take a look at what oil is doing, reversing some of those losses it saw during the u. S. Session when it fell below 40 a barrel. Gulf operations restarting after hurricane delta. Sourcesention, libya saying we could see output there doubling within 10