By 7 . Will rise the trade balance is expected to be at 53. 75 billion in u. S. Figures. In november, in terms of export, it is showing the overall chinese economy with the recovery story. The dollar index is flat. Sterling is under pressure. Go at 1837 u. S. Dollars. Lets head to new york and get the first word news with Karina Mitchell. Numbers continue to rise with President Trump revealing Rudy Giuliani has tested positive. The news reported you has been hospital. He the Administration Says all of americans who want the vaccine should get one by the middle of next year. Several states have record infections. The u. K. Will roll out shots tuesday, while they going to partial lockdown. Iran will raise Oil Productions under the new administration. Joe biden wants to revive the Nuclear Accord dropped by President Trump. Tehran is ready to raise output within three months. Iraq is nudging production higher, while insisting it is committed to the latest strategy from opec and its allies.
Radio. Alongside lisa abramowicz, im jonathan ferro. Tom keene will be back with us on wednesday. Erasing the mornings losses. Monday morning, we are faced with vaccine news. Some other news as well. We are pushing things forward every monday, it seems. Lisa although it seems like the market didnt respond so much to that news. There seems to be a lot of positivity baked in. So my people who came on this show were saying if there is any pullback, which there were likely be which there will. Ikely be, buy that dip that seems to be the feeling as we bleed higher towards the end of the year. Jonathan this morning, but theyre not out this morning, requestplanning to approval for this vaccine. What we have to think about is what would the anchor expectations on the policy side and on the data side. Later this week, the chiasm claims, payrolls the ism claims, payrolls. Do people start to get worried about the nearterm future . We hear from secretary mnuchin and chair powell this week. A bit o
How to rein in the coronavirus pandemic. Kamala harris, as well as members of bidens Coronavirus Task force, were also on the call. Biden reportedly told governors they all share a common purpose, regardless of which Political Party they belong to. He also reportedly promised state leaders he would make sure they get the sources they need to beat the virus. The u. S. Has been hit hard by the pandemic, with over 11. 5 million total cases. More than 250,000 people have died. Following the call, biden spoke to reporters. He tried to reassure people that his pandemic plan targets the virus, not their livelihoods. I am not going to shut down the economy, period. Im going to shut down the virus. Thats what im going to shut down. So i say again, no national shutdown. No national shutdown. Because every region, every area, every community can be different. He was also asked about president trumps refusal to concede. Biden described trumps recent actions as totally irresponsible and damaging to
Donald trumps falsely claimed election victory and is disputing the results. And in other news a minute she escalation in northern ethiopia tensions between the government and local groups threaten to spill across the border. Is 2100. 00 g. M. T. 4 pm u. S. Eastern time and 15 hours after the last polls closed in the president ial election the result is still on a knife edge but it seems it could be tilting the way of former Vice President joe biden and his Democratic Party is due to speak at any minute and these are live pictures from wilmington delaware well take you there a soon as he starts but dont trump is definitely not about to concede hes not showing a string of legal attacks or disputing ballots and challenging results biden has moved closer in the past hour to the magic total of 270. 00 votes for the white house adding the 10 Electoral College seats in the state of wisconsin. But the trunk campaign is already demanding a recount in that state and has fallen lawsuit to try to
Most recently published the spymasters which is a book about how the cia directors shape history. Its a really pathbreaking work at her book. Its the first book that looks at the modern directors of Central Intelligence and evaluates [inaudible] and how they have interpreted their jobs. Well have time later in the program to talk about all of those issues. There is a link available to brookings in order to purchase a copy of the book at a think youll find [inaudible] its really something quite [inaudible] were going to focus today at least initially on the pandemic. The Intelligence Community appears actually did a fairly good job warning and anticipating that the pandemic was coming. And ask you to give us some of the data that point in the direction . Yeah, bruce, first of all before i do can i just say that thank you for the kind words for the spymasters. I was lucky enough in doing this book to talk to almost every living cia director and i was even luckier to be able to talk to yo