Index, just marginally down. The real story has been the bounceback after last weeks fall for bitcoin, approaching record highs. 19,595. 1. 1 to the upside. Drivings within opec that crude oil price down. Lets look at what is going on in the emerging market context. Asian markets are bouncing back nicely after yesterdays big move to the downside. What has been responsible for this change in mood . , onethink first of all should partly see yesterdays price action as an anomaly. I think the Way Investors are now returning to the positive things like easy fed policy, Global Economic recovery, which was confirmed by asian pmis and the index that just came out, and optimism about vaccines. Juliette and your team has written a piece on the e. M. Currency outlook for 2021. It reads quite positively. What is the basis for all that optimism . Maybe there are three reasons. First, valuation. We believe that emfx is undervalued and conditions should be conducive to pushing them into overvalued te
Saying china is the greatest threat to democracy worldwide. The u. S. The bloomberg u. S. Dollar index. Crude getting a lift after an opec agreement that came through. Theyre going to be keeping curbs in place in terms of production but we could see on a month by month basis some of those curbs being removed. Agrees to ease cuts more gradually. Gold about 1 10 of 1 lower. Bitcoin using some of its sheen and declinings extensive 1 . With all that in mind, lets find out what is happening in new york. Karina we start with the news on pfizer. It slumped on reported may ship only half of the vaccines it planned to this year. Issues supply chain will cut it to 50 million. Anthony found she is taking the u. K. For rushing to clear the pfizer vaccine. Moderna claims it shows what it claims is durability. Republican Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell is calling for a smaller more focused stimulus package for the u. S. Economy as democrats scale back demands to find a route forward. The base
Declining. We saw a constructive things. Waiting for the eighth or ninth year of expansion is not a perfect strategy. There is an issue of wanting to do as much as we can to avoid exacerbating the longstanding inferences and get back to a Strong Economy or we can start making progress again, which is what we were doing in february. Senator smith as the fed chair and at the fed you have the mission of low unemployment and managing inflation. And this need to spur job growth. We said there is not been a big worry about inflation. What if the fed were to lower its target for employment, even under 3 . What impact might that have on addressing longterm needs for addressing inequality. Changeowell we made a in our operating framework which addresses that directly. We will have an estimate of the natural rate of unemployment. We will not act on that, even if unemployment goes below that, unless we see inflation or some other problematic thing that seems to be late to where our rates are. We
Upside. Looking at commodities. Crude moving to the upside. A big move to the downside with , on the vaccine and signs of Economic Growth in the u. S. Particularly helping people not to look for havens or avoid havens, get out of them. Gold down half of 1 . Bitcoin surging up again, it has above 18,500. Juliette lets get the first word news. The head of the u. S. Government Coronavirus Vaccine program says results of trials by astrazeneca show encouraging signs it may help block the most severe cases. No one given the vaccine developed severe covid, while 16 people on the placebo debt. He called the results excited. Nine, reports 70 process astrazeneca report 70 success. The centers for Disease Control a model shows weekly u. S. Cases and deaths rising every week for at least the next month. Italy is the Second European nation to report 50,000 total fatalities. The u. K. Is extending lockdown next week in favor of even tougher regional curbs. Reports from washington say the Trump Admin
Says the first rollout could happen by mid december. The g20 discusses the virus and the potential remedies. Shotspledges to make available to all and President Trump wont say if the u. S. Will join a global effort. Haidi we are setting up for a cautious start to trading. The aussie dollar holding pretty steady. Kiwi stocks are up by half a percent. We are seeing the kiwi dollar trading just flat. U. S. Officials say the first vaccinations could be administered in just three weeks if given the green light for emergency use by the fda. Aboutare still concerns how poorer countries will be given access to any vaccine. The vaccineke Development Team has an aggressive timeline. Be do we expected to achieved and a lot of people are concerned about equitable access. Of movingre a lot parts here. A lot of movement around the world. Drug administration has an advisory meeting that day about the vaccine. Health officials really seem to think that approval could be forthcoming at that meeting or