Washington ramps up pressure on beijing. Goldman sachs raises billions for a new fund to focus on private equity. The move comes amid rising interest in secondary investing. Haidi lets look at what the day has in store at the sydney open. We are expected a muted start to trading in asia after downward pressure coming from the u. S. Session overnight. Restrictions continue to take place to curb the the Coronavirus Spread we are starting to see accelerate again, even as we get further good news on the vaccine front. Trading marginal. The u. S. Dollar held to the lowest we have seen since april 2018. We are also seeing the aussie dollar on the back foot. Nikkei futures look like they will see a muted start to trading. Shery lets get started with good news on the vaccine front. Pfizer says final Data Analysis shows its covid shot is 95 effective. The ceo of its german partner told bloomberg about plans for mass production. Our goal is to supply up to 50 million doses by 2020 which andd go
And that adviser is forced to apologize for giving an interview to our t. V. After being criticized by the Mainstream Media outlets was branded a russian propagandist for warning against containment measures. The argument is undeniable. Chilling people. Are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r. T. International im sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us now we start with an ongoing manhunt in Vienna Police have confirmed one death in a shooting at near a synagogue in the city center while gunfire has erupted at a total of 6 different locations austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurtz has called the violence a repulsive Terror Attack Police are still searching for the shooters and are asking people to stay off the streets here are some of the images of the chaos. For more on what is happening were now joined live by our european correspondent peter all over peter thanks for staying across this force give us the latest if you could. Well its been confirmed that
The broader markets are approaching previrus levels. Passed . Or crisis has tiktok is seeking another legal and to curb the use of the out in america. Shery lets get a quick check of the markets. We are seeing u. S. Interest, on the market pretty flat. Had hopes for reelection preelection stimulus, and those hopes are fading away. We have mixed banking reports. The s p 500s song for a second session. Communication stocks are leading decline. As oil rose in todays sessions. Take a look at what oil is doing right now. It rose to the highest level in nearly one week. We got a weaker dollar. The u. S. Shares turned negative. It was a weaker dollar. We had expectations for supply declines in u. S. Inventories, and that really pushing the oil price higher. Lets see how things are shaping up, here is sophie. Stock futures are pointing to more losses, after it pulled back from a march hike. Japan watching reports in , and over in south korea, the agency they hit makes it trading debut after an
31 was exceptionally important. I spoke to the vice chairman yesterday, and hes really enthused about expanding on a lot of this monetary mumbojumbo. It is an important speech, but the backdrop, you nailed this weeks ago, is the massive case build up in the United Kingdom that the Prime Minister talked about yesterday. Im sorry, the landscape changed yesterday when he went out to march of 2021. Jonathan the outlook for europe gets a little bit worse. The data on the Services Side backing that up. From my perspective for the Federal Reserve, the message they want to send if things get the message they want said, if things get better they want to send, if things get better. Tom how many times will we mention it . Jonathan i lost count. Lisa, will you count it . Lisa no, but im going to let tom know that. Tom 47 times. Lisa there you go, 47 times we mentioned fiscal stimulus. Jonathan just to clear this up for our listeners, our audience worldwide, tom keene has not counted how any times.
Because we know that not all immigrants were welcomed into the country. Not all immigrants were able to achieve their american dreams. But rather, we picked and sifted and chose which immigrants to let in and which immigrants to let out. Or keep out. And many times, this really was dependent upon an immigrants race, ethnicity, gender, class, this idea of who is fit to become a citizen and who is not. And this is the history that is best exemplified through immigration through angel island. This is in the San Francisco bay. It is that other island, not alcatraz, but that other island in the San Francisco bay that is now a california state park. So, the immigration station on angel island was open from 1910 to 1940. We primarily think about it as an entry point for immigrants from china and japan. And two thirds of the immigrants who did come through angel island were from those two countries. But as you can see, there are over 80 countries represented for the immigration stream that cam