Up. Countries around the globe are getting closer to the release of a vaccine for cobra, 19 more testing and distribution concerns for your head. Well talk to these expert, dr. Paul, but about the future of the shop and big claim rally continues, topping 17000. 00 while bringing up many points along for the ride. We have a lot to get to. Lets just start big news this week, as mentor now becomes the 2nd drug maker to report an efficacy rate above 90 percent for its covert 1000. 00 vaccine. The promising results are lifting hopes as global cases exceed, 55000000 and deaths total. More than 1300000. 00. Several countries are imposing travel restrictions or simply limiting public gatherings. This comes one week after russias Health Ministry announced its sputnik 5 axing is also 90 percent or 92 percent effective on tuesday during the annual bric summit host russian. President , lot of putin said the Russian Direct Investment Fund has reached agreements with its brazilian and indian partner
And the troop levels could go back up again. Really depends upon commitments by the taliban and what have you and youve got to consider that a biden ministration given the blood in the service may be jumping on board. His Administration May pursue efforts to keep troops there, and even Establishment Republicans are calling for troops to remain in afghanistan, and probably even in iraq. Not that things are shaping up in our banks, which is not international this wednesday. Next stop, its been bust. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking to guest of the world, the politics sports business. Im show business. Ill see you then new gold rush is underway in ghana. Thousands of ill equipped workers are flocking to the gold fields, hoping to strike it rich. Heres a good way out of those they owe by those that work. Children are torn between gold. My family was very poor. I thought i was doing my best to get back to school, which side will have the strongest appeal w
A very good morning to you. It is friday. Oh, my goodness. Its friday the 13th, too. You know what, its friday. Good morning. Im laura garcia. Friday the 13th in the year 2020, uhoh. Dont laugh. What could go wrong . Hmm. Lets get a look at the forecast for you that morning. Kari, what do you have for us . I think its good luck that we are seeing some rain moving into the bay area and this is not a particularly strong storm. We are looking at light rain to the north of us that will be moving from north to south. As we go into the rest of today right now we have storm ranger tracking it. Our mobile Doppler Radar. Showing very light rain up around parts of lake and mendocino counties. So far the bay area is dry as you head out the door. Some of that rain moving through lakeport and clear lake and that will be moving in for the rest of the day. Were going to have some scattered showers moving from north to south today. The weekend, sunny and mild conditions by the end of the weekend into
Hsbcs turnaround picks up speed. The bank surges in hong kong as speculation grows around a return to Dividend Payments. Good morning, everybody. It is wednesday morning, just over an hour away from the start of cash equity trading. Lets look at futures. European equity markets, u. S. Equity markets of by more than 1 . And, of course, we have touched the levels key levels. The dow at 30,000, and the s p touching an alltime high at the close as well. Real strength coming into today, in futures suggest we have some upside to play for. Futures all point higher. European futures also to the upside. Ftse futures up by about 0. 3 . Broadly speaking, it is the same as the last couple of days. We are talking about vaccine optimism. The news about janet yellen picked up the appetite. It is into just stocks. We can look at what has happened through the asia session. Some of the markets in asia have turned increasingly negative as we have gone through the session. Parts of asia now retreating. Th
That really has been down to currencies. The dollar index is up at the moment, but if you look at it over 24 hours, actually, its down by. 3 ,. 4 percent. One of the main beneficiaries of crown weakness has been strength. Sterling has been propelled about 1. 5 in the last day or thereabouts. The dollar weakness has been felt with the yen also moving to the upside. Theres another reason we are seeing upside on equities in japan. Gold not a major beneficiary, though it was at oneweek highs at one stage after the dollar was sagging earlier on. Thats a look at markets. Lets head over to tom. Tom lets get you up to speed with some of the other first word headlines. The Trump Administration is ramping up tensions with china once again, designating six asnland Media Outlets foreign which it says are controlled by beijing. They include the economic daily, which provides a look at beijing economic news. The Administration Says all six are substantially owned or by atively controlled foreign gov