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Does he have the ability to do this, do you agree with the decision . Sen. Schumer i agree with the decision and i know that he will check things out legally. Thank you, everybody. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] a we take you live to discussion on fiscal policy in the Incoming Biden Administration and congress, hosted by the brookings institution. Size i think is ambiguous and policy occur through a political process. I would rather see something that is a little bit smaller but that could pass this week or next week, rather than wait for something that is a little bit until, but will not pass february. If you look at the output gap, i think a trillion dollars is a reasonable figure for the next round of stimulus. I think democrats should be willing to take a couple hundred billion dollars less than that. Repub ....
With the cares act in march and prevented the covid pandemic from doing even more harm to the economy and welfare of americans than it did. The cares act is essentially been spent, many people are about to lose benefits. Unless Congress Acts. And unless Congress Acts fiscal policy soon will be a drag on growth. They are still more than 11 Million People still unemployed by the official count. Most economists and certainly those gathered here today agree more fiscal support is necessary. Following that discussion, we turn to an issue predating the pandemic him one that persists. How to think about the federal debt and very low Interest Rates. Its growing and unsustainable rate. There is sentiment among comp economists for doing anything about that right now. When is a ....
Higher. Eurodollar up by 0. 4 . Is the ecb getting worried at this point . 1. 2163. The dollar is broadly lower. The pound just taking out 1. 35. We havent been at these levels since this time last year. What is fascinating here is what is happening with bond markets as well. Weve basically got yields and stocks moving in the same direction. That is something that is pretty interesting now. It certainly points to this reflation trade at the moment, with the catalyst still having legs. Alix the question is how long is that last. Lets dig into some of the top stories guy was minting. Germany extending its partial lockdown. Sweden shutting some schools as well. Joining us with more is sam fazeli, Bloomberg Intelligence senior pharmaceutical analyst. We have seen more targeted lockdowns and extensions. Is any of that working now in europe . Sam yes, they are. Funny that we have countries going at different paces which is norma ....
With its trial. There were two trial participants. One had efficacy of 90 . The other was lower than that, in the 60s. You average that, and it its about 70 . We will see how the market is moving on that. We want to welcome now to our bloomberg tv and radio on a sense Radio Audience astrazenecas executive vice president. It is really good to see you. When itways welcome, comes to good news over solid vaccines. The question it seems people want insert is talk about that 90 efficacy. That seems to have been a smaller group. Give me some insight into it. How many confirmed cases were there in that group . Try tot of all, let me summarize the headline data. Overall, we have seen efficacy about two efficacy of up to 90 and about half of those in the Clinical Trial. We have seen roughly 3000 volunteers in that cohort of the Clinic ....