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
Say theyve shot down an Ethiopian Military plane and captured the pilot a day after the Prime Minister declared victory in the region. Meanwhile, ethiopian state media says at least 70 graves have been found in the train town from where at least 110. 00 civilians have been killed in northeastern nigeria and what the uns described as a gruesome massacre. A fondness tending the crops, the armed group, or karama, suspected of being behind that the deadliest attack in borno state this year, amid interest, has more from the future. The incident happened in 2 villages at least 2 villages in northeastern nigeria, in borno state, in particular. And one surprising thing is that the attackers, according to sources, came on motorcycles, and there has been a ban on the use of motorcycles in that region for at least 6 years now. So its surprising how Security Forces couldnt identify or discover. Some people illegally using motorcycles, they carried out their tax when these farm workers were busy ha
Over the weekend an i. T. Firm said foot traffic in tokyo remained unchanged from a week earlier. Thats based on mobile phone data gathered with users consent. But there are far fewer visitors in Tourist Spots outside the capital compared to the november 23rd long weekend. The number of people was down 38 in china town south of to tokyo. People are also getting prepared for the new year holiday season. A shrine is selling new years lu lucky charms earlier than usual. I thought it would be better to visit now than over new ye s years. It will be so crowded and we need to be mindful of others. We cant aany infections from shrine, so i want people to visit between december and february so we dont see crowds over new years. Officials reported 1,425 new cases across the countrien on monday. More than 149,000 people in japan have been infected since the pandemic began. Over 2,100 people have died. The price tag of the tokyo listens and paralympics continues to rise after the games were postp
Is theail sales number only surprise i suppose. Juliette that is quite interesting given this had been this consumer driven recovery and the positive numbers we have seen and domestic travel. Gold is a miss. Still seeing the incredible strength coming through in offshore youuan. Onhave been seeing a risk momentum coming through in equities across the region. Signing havinghe a positive boost to markets. We are seeing momentum on the asiapacific index. It is going to close at a record high. When we look specifically at Chinese Markets themselves, we did have the csi 300 already near the fiveyear high. The csi 300 a little weaker, down by a 10th of 1 . Korean airlines coming out and saying they are going to to buy. 8 trillion yuan an airline. Raising 2. 5ng to be trillion. That is a bit of corporate breaking news. Lets get over to julia. She is at jp morgan. Thank you for joining us. What was your main takeaway . Controls glance have been maintained. Still looks like their recovery is pr
A single civilian. This is contradicted by the team p. L. S. Leaders account. They say that civilian casualties have been high and they say that civilians were targeted in government airstrikes, something that the government side denies. We also heard from the red cross in macquarie, thats the regional capital, the city, about half a 1000000 people. They say that about 80 percent of the people in hospitals there have trauma injuries or they have, they havent said how those injuries have been sustained. But they will say said that theres a serious shortage of essential medical supplies and a shortage of body bags. The Funeral Service for the Top Iranian Nuclear scientists musson fox result, has been held in the capital tehran. He was killed on friday. Irans leaders blame israel and say that they will retaliate. Indian farmers, blocking roads in a protest against new laws are refusing to move to a government designated venue. Pharma say that opens talks with ministers, they say the new l