Up on the other side of the atlantic anticipation grows for about saying roll out the outgoing u. S. President touts Americas Group Speed Development but how much cooperation has trump offered to his successor will be rolling out the actual vaccination program. Im Rebecca Ritters welcome to the Program German chancellor Angela Merkel has pushed for tougher restrictions to bring down stubbornly high coronavirus numbers this is germanys death toll from covert 9 tain has hit a record daily high of 590 state as a considering a Strict Lockdown over the holidays to curb infection right addressing the German Parliament just moments ago merkel urged the public to recognize the seriousness of germany situation. Well this right now isnt does not fill us in and 14 days until Christmas Day and we must do everything we can to ensure that we get away from exponential growth and we have set the teachers and to everyone all of the contact that isnt necessary must be restricted and as hard as that is a
New york orders fresh measures to stem the spread. Cases in texas exceed one million. Risks. Ing the Christine Lagarde says all options are on the table to fight the crisis. She will be joined by the boe governor and fed chair. It is the ecb for. Warm welcome to the show. We are waiting for numbers to cross the tape. It is europes single biggest engineering company. I think youve got a little bit of merck. How are the merck numbers looking . Good morning. Annmarie pretty strong. Third quarter net sales coming in ahead of estimates at 4. 45. The estimate was 4. 3 8 billion. Net sales higher. That was a beat on merck. We will speak to the cfo. , inthing to look out for august, he thought it would be another 15 months to a vaccine. Im wondering if that timetable has changed, given the pfizer and biotech news. Biggestt is the Single Company in the world. They did better than some of the others in terms of their stoicism through this. Profit rises into 2021. Thats the key take away from thi
Good morning, everyone. This is bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. The market is taking in a few things, european stocks dropping due to these new travel roles. Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news in london with leighann gerrans. Hi, leighann. Leighann good morning, francine. Israel and the united arab startes have decided to talks. The two sides will hold a range of talks in the coming weeks. In the meantime, israel has agreed to suspend its efforts to annex part of the west bank. Palestinian officials quickly criticize the move, calling it a betrayal. The u. S. Is adding france and netherlands and malta to its quarantined list. People now have to isolate for 14 days. It comes as the u. K. Has even more lockdown measures and even tougher penalties for ignoring social distancing rules. Fines for not wearing a mask will double to a maximum 3200 pounds. Lai kong media tycoon jimmy accusing china of arresting him on trumped up charges. Lai pushed back a
And the markets say by gold. Global google searches for the phrase hit levels not seen in nine years as the yellow metal barrels passed 2000 an ounce. The cash trade is less than an hour away. Here are your headlines. The white house and democrats aim for a virus relief deal by the end of the week and bill gates tells bloomberg exclusively the u. S. Should help poorer nations get vaccines. Rocked by a massive explosion at its main port, killing dozens and injuring thousands. Authorities are yet to confirm what caused the blast. In fromcontinue to roll europes largest countries. Commerzbank anticipates a loss for the year. We will speak with a host of top executives in the coming hours, including from the frankfurtbased bank. We are just under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe and out in the u. K. Lets take a look at what futures are indicating. Green arrows across the board. For ures up the most, 0. 4 . We get a slew of earnings out of German Companies this m
Worlds largest plane maker surpassing boeing. Questions mount over Carlos Ghosns escape his lawyer will hold a press conference on january 8. Good morning, everybody. Happy new year and thank you for tuning in to cnbc. On january 2, a lot to get through today. We are getting the final eurozone manufacturing data for december that comes in as a whole higher than the flash estimate coming in at 46. 3 versus the initial estimate of 45. 9 the manufacturing down turn deepened towards the end of 2019, we are seeing signs things are beginning to stabilize at least in the right direction in terms of individual countries just before street signs started, we would have had the final manufacturing numbers that came in at 43. 7 versus 43. 4. Germany is one of the reasons. The ago ra gat number is higher and france coming in in italy, coming in at 46. 2 versus the estimate of 47. 6. We are looking at better numbers for germany and france, worse for italy. On the whole for eurozone, the numbers are