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
Tensions. You really have more of the same. Tech outperforms. One jobless claims around million. Rates grinding ever lower. Still fears surrounding the coronavirus. It feels as though this market just has a complete disregard for warnings coming from the fed, warnings from u. S. China relations . And rates refuse to go up tech outperforms. You can have a situation where value outperforms. We saw that briefly in june. Or you could have a market that actually goes down. That does not seem to have. Instead, we go back into this one very specific group of mediocre growth. Caroline at the beginning of trade, we were a bit worried. We saw the reading on the philly fed. The ceos being asked the key question of caution. Ofare looking at a blue line what is current outlook. In six months, may be a little bit of an improvement. It looked pretty dire. It was a mess. Bloomberge had the Consumer Comfort Index data came out. One of the folks that works behind the scenes here, dan curtis, pointed thi
Not permitting that because they themselves are policing what is being put on twitter. Harris and House Republicans now demanding the fbi reveal whether it has a session of Hunter Bidens laptop reportedly containing those emails during President Trumps impeachment hearing. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts is live for us at the white house. Lets tackle the first part of what we were talking about just a second ago, the president not only going after twitter for censoring access to reports about Hunter Bidens emails and blocking some campaign and other accounts, but the president also going out that abc town hall last night joe biden, the president tweeting Sleepy Joe Biden had a very bad showing last night despite the fact that George Stephanopoulos didnt ask him any questions on him being a corrupt politician. Working hard to hide this corruption. Twitter yesterday took an electronic sledgehammer to the Trump Campaign and white house staffers blocking press secretary kelly
Just ruled incredibly that he doesnt want people staying in mexico. Figure that one out. You have a Democratic Congress that is obstructing. He talked about obstruction, the greatest obstruction anyone has ever seen. Harris a lot of questions shouted they are. We will lean now on chief White House Correspondent john roberts to bring us the news. John . Harris, good afternoon to you. A lot of talk in recent days at the white house is considering starting a new policy regarding family separation. At the end of that press availability with the president of egypt, elsisi, and the chaos of the white house staff tried to shoo the press out of the oval office, the president address that and said hes not going to do that. Listen here. We are not looking to do that, no. We are not looking to do that. Thank you very much. But it does it brings a lot more people to the border. When you dont do it, it brings a lot more people to the border. We are not looking to do it. President obama we change th
Except for getting a grueling stem cell transplant treatment, Fleming took little time off during her cancer battle to lead the Fargo public health response to the pandemic.