Pence gets COVID-19 vaccine, Biden to receive jab on Monday
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US Vice President Mike Pence receives a COVID-19 vaccine at the White House on December 18 in Washington, DC.
US Vice President Mike Pence received a COVID-19 vaccine live on television Friday in a public display designed to boost national confidence in the drug, while President-elect Joe Biden is set to receive his shot on Monday. Building confidence in the vaccine is what brings us here this morning, Pence said after being injected, quipping: I didn t feel a thing.
Pence, his wife Karen and the nation s lead public health official, Surgeon General Jerome Adams, were all given the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in the annex to the White House.
Asian markets slip as dealers track stimulus progress
US indices hit record high as economic hope overshadows jump in unemployment
REUTERS
December 19, 2020
Shares of 365 companies were traded. At the end of the day, 252 stocks closed higher. PHOTO: FILE
Asian markets struggled on Friday to build on the previous day’s rally and a record lead from Wall Street as investors track US stimulus talks with lawmakers appearing to finally be closing on a deal.
After last month’s surge across equity markets, traders have in December been unable to kick on as vaccine optimism and signs of a breakthrough in Washington, as well as in Brexit negotiations, are offset by frighteningly high coronavirus infection and death rates around the world.
US VP Pence gets Covid vaccine, Biden to receive jab Monday
Trump has made clear he is not planning to take the vaccine imminently
AFP
December 19, 2020
US Vice President Mike Pence receives the COVID-19 vaccine in Washington in public on December 18, 2020. AFP
US Vice President Mike Pence received a Covid-19 vaccine live on television Friday in a public display designed to boost national confidence in the drug, while President-elect Joe Biden is set to receive his shot on Monday. Building confidence in the vaccine is what brings us here this morning, Pence said after being injected, quipping: I didn t feel a thing.
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Asia Shares Retreat From Record, But U.S. Stimulus Hopes Buoy Market Mood
MSCI s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan dropped 0.3% from Thursday s record. Still, it s on track for a seventh consecutive week of gains - the longest such streak in about a year.
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Asian shares on Friday slipped from the record they hit a day earlier, but the prospect of a major U.S. coronavirus relief package left some investors still in the mood to pick up stocks and other risk-exposed assets.
MSCI s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan dropped 0.3% from Thursday s record. Still, it s on track for a seventh consecutive week of gains - the longest such streak in about a year.
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