With its trial. There were two trial participants. One had efficacy of 90 . The other was lower than that, in the 60s. You average that, and it its about 70 . We will see how the market is moving on that. We want to welcome now to our bloomberg tv and radio on a sense Radio Audience astrazenecas executive vice president. It is really good to see you. When itways welcome, comes to good news over solid vaccines. The question it seems people want insert is talk about that 90 efficacy. That seems to have been a smaller group. Give me some insight into it. How many confirmed cases were there in that group . Try tot of all, let me summarize the headline data. Overall, we have seen efficacy about two efficacy of up to 90 and about half of those in the Clinical Trial. We have seen roughly 3000 volunteers in that cohort of the Clinical Trial, and it was highly significant that we saw less infections, and in fact, across all of the cohorts, you other the cohorts, whether you had the full dose, t
White house in the east room. With 400 of his closest friends. Thanks to mary a parker. Emily wilkins is covering the biden campaign. Emily the Vice President began his day in delaware. He visited the grave of his son beau biden. He said his sons passing was part of the reason he decided to launch this third for president. He visited scranton pennsylvania and is now just leaving philadelphia. We are expecting him on the stage in wilmington, delaware. We do not know whether we will be able to have a president ial announcement at that point, but we are expecting joe biden to address the nation. David Emily Wilkins will be with us throughout the evening as well as she covers the Vice President s campaign. The markets have been watching the election closely. We turned to Abigail Doolittle for what they are telling us today. What are they saying. Abigail we have investors interested in stocks. A very big rally on our hands. The s p 500 up 2 , its best day since june. Investors wanting in. I
Most people say they have already made up their mind and even big events like the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg have not led many to say whether they should change their votes so far. A couple of Opinion Pieces leading up to tonights event, on from the university of californias Mitchell Mckinney will join us later on this morning in the program. He says this, theres argument that the debates are not substantiated and present no new information area if thats the case it makes a compelling case for eliminating them but these accusations are not based on what debate viewers believe but on what political pundits think. Viewers want debatesand the numbers prove it. In 2016 two of the three planes and trump matchups set a viewership record with the first drawn about 84 Million Viewers and the largest viewing audience in the history of the televised debates that began with john f. Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960. Theres another viewpoint on the New York Times. Im not lo
Wearing, sanitation, ventilation, separation, we are not going to get a handle on this to be able to fully open our economy and our schools in our society. That is what has been ignored by the administration. That is what we must insist upon in this package. It has been another bills but they have not acted upon the resources in a way science would demand. That said come on the subject of the airlines, ive made the case to my colleagues this is a special case because in order for airline employees to return to the workforce, there are National Security concerns, there are concerns about certification and all the rest of that, not somebody leaving a job and coming back to a job, but having to qualified could take a couple of years for a pilot, six months for a flight attendant, six i think we should pay special attention to that. We should not do that and lose all leverage to do Everything Else we have in the bill, which is to crush the virus, honor our heroes, put money in the pockets
Grounds. Nikei down. 4 . The japanese yen hold steady against the u. S. Dollar. Industrial production beating estimates. The asx 200 down 1. 5 as the aussie dollar continues to strengthen against the u. S. Dollar. Quarter end demand from iwiorters as well, and k stocks reversing yesterdays losses. Holding steady after falling for the lowest level in a week. Steady ahead of the first u. S. Debate. Continues to lose ground after a touched the lowest level in almost two weeks. We are seeing the offshore yuan holding steady. We might see some china bashing in that debate. That is it from daybreak asia. Coveragemarkets returns at 11 a. M. Hong kong. This is bloomberg. From bloomberg headquarters to our tv and Radio Audiences, i am david westin. Welcome to a special edition of balance of power, coverage of the first president ial debate. President donald trump and joe biden will share a stage for the first time tonight in cleveland as they debate each other at a campus shared by case western