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Christine lagarde, president of the ecb, moderated by Francine Lacqua. Francine what a great pleasure to be here with Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central bank, and welcome to the forum here at bloomberg. Everyone is talking about the vaccine. How will that actually change your forecast and the economy if we do get a vaccine early next year . Ms. Lagarde it is lovely to see you and to participate. To your question, i am not sure it is going to be a major game changer for our forecast, simply because what we had anticipated in our baseline was that some stage in the first half of 2021, there would be a vaccine, and that it would be rolled out in the course of 2021. So it might be a little back celebrated a little bit accelerated given the news we are receiving from the various horizons, germany, the ....
But after the huge moves we have seen related to some of the vaccine news of late, this is a relatively quiet session. If you look at the headlines as well, the mnuchin and powell spat doesnt seem to have caused much aggravation during the market session thus far. Seeing weakness in the turkish lira today, but after that big move we saw yesterday by the work of central bank and the shift higher in the lira, people may be fading that move a little bit on some expectation that maybe erdogan will not stick with his recent decision to maybe go to more mainstream economics. Alix lets get to our top story, governments rushing to issue vaccine approval. The modernas that and Pfizer Biontech vaccines could be approved by december. If all proceeds with no problems, the conditional marketing authorization for biontech and mentor in a could happen as early as the second half of december 2020. Alix joining us now is sam fazeli. I love how sh ....
Plenty of things to be thinking about. The election dominating the narrative. Alix polls are just opening in alaska. In the lower 48 states, voters have been filing into bowling into Bowling Centers across the United States. Joining us into pulling Centers Across the United States. Joining usis bloombergs nick wadhams joining us is bloombergs nick wadhams. We saw a record early turnout of about 100 million voters, i reflation that a lot of democrats in particular were worried about the coronavirus and possible exposure, and want to get their votes in early. Republicans tend in this election to vote much more on election day. The big number we are looking at is 9 00 p. M. That is when we expect to know what is happening in florida. Once we know florida, people have a ....