Signing of a cease fire and one of the 7 wonders of the world reopens but its under strict coronavirus measures after being closed for 8 months. So we could be looking at a turning point here in the fight against covert 19 this monday the u. S. Drugs make it pfizer says it vaccine. Candidate has proved to be more than 90 percent effective bringing hope in this pandemic that has now killed nearly 1300000 people pfizer says its on track to ask for permission to sell the vaccine before the end of the month thing is the u. S. Health regulators say theyll need some time to review it 1st the head of the World Health Organization meanwhile is calling for Scientific Solutions and solidarity to end the pandemic this was a largely Virtual Meeting of the w h os Decision Making body something does need to happen in the world is now more than 50000000 recorded covert 1000 cases and absolutely no signs of a slowdown we might be trying. But its not. As. Yes it preys on doors and we can helmets but it
And solid numbers in tech are not enough to keep investors from selling, dragging down u. S. Equity futures. Good morning. Over the past 45 minutes, we have seen a leg lower across equity futures as well as across the msci asia pacific, even though yesterday wall street did close higher, it was a relatively flat close in europe. S p 500 futures down 0. 9 , and the nasdaq 100 futures extending the losses past 2 this morning. Clearly the stabilization yesterday has not been enough. It has been a difficult week in the markets. The tech overnight did not meet expectations. Apple down more than 4 in afterhours trading. It was about expenses and costs for apple in china. Twitter extending losses more than 17 in overnight trading. For investors. Alphabet, one bright spot in big tech, up or than 6 . U. S. 10 year yields at 80 basis points. This was the close yesterday for the german bund market as well as the 10 year italian btps. Christine lagarde gave a clear signal more stimulus is on the w
Yields have continued to fall in italy. Stocks in europe. We will provide the details in a moment. The s p is up around. 5 . A stable day. We are seeing a rotation back towards the tech stocks. The top the stoxx 600 benefiting from the ecb largess, which were now expecting more of. The stoxx 600 up 1. 12 . Aboutyou are talking Christine Lagarde saying the ecb will be there for the second wave of the virus. The Central Banks primary tools will likely stay the same. Lagarde while all options are on the program, the have provenros their effectiveness in the current environment and can be dynamically adjusted to react to how the pandemic evolves. They are therefore likely to remain the main tools for adjusting our monetary policy. Alix joining us from frankfurt is paul gordon, who leads bloombergs western european Central Banks coverage. Bdp is getting the most out of that statement from Christine Lagarde. Yields down. What was your biggest take away about how she said she would support th
Closing early is not good. It is extraordinary. The difference versus what we have got here is absolutely extraordinary. Francine on the lockdown, it basically gives you a kind of a benchmark, code red, code rain, code yellow, to get a sense of what you code green, code yellow, to get a sense of what you need to do. They are trying to make it simple, but we are not even 24 hours until forest johnson made that announcement. Tom Jacob Sharfstein of Johns Hopkins, we talk to him two times a week, the lead quote today in the Washington Post be inoat it is real simple the Washington Post. It is real simple. Were just waiting for a vaccine. Leighann President Trump says he feels so powerful after recovering from coronavirus. He wants to walk into a crowd and kiss everybody. The president spoke at a rally in florida. His first stop since his return to the campaign trail. There was little social distancing at the event, although some spectators wore masks. Supreme Court Nominee amy coney onret
Out his vision to drive new Economic Growth and draw hong kong closer to the mainland. Offapple takes the wraps the iphone 12. And pricey. Analysts say it could trigger a new wave of sales. Haidi all right, lets take a look at how we are setting up going into trading, and australia, weakness as expected with equity futures. About 1 10 of 1 . Reasonablethere were earnings out from banks, putting an end to the stalemate and a contention over another round of stimulus with the white house and democrats in disarray over negotiations. The aussie dollar also trading 158, and we heard from the australian treasurer speaking earlier, commenting on the tensions with china, saying the relationship has been challenging but that it is vastly important and a relationship of mutual benefit. We will continue to watch that and others, as well, given the concerns about the import ban when it comes to australian coal into china. Kiwi stocks, modest to the upside. Going from strength to strength. Of cours