Global news 24 hours a day on air and on bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. I am Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. I am vonnie quinn. Welcome to Bloomberg Markets here are the top stories we are following. Covid vaccine in the ether again. Pfizer says a final analysis of the chemical trials data shows its vaccine was 95 effective. Free han the 90 previously. Michael stubblefield, ceo of of and later we will speak to the ceo of intact financial. It would be the biggest acquisition of a u. K. Listed company this year. A quick check of the markets. For the most part, not doing much. The s p 500 unchained. The 10 year yield under 88 basis points. Weakk dollar index a dollar index. We have a slightly smaller dollar. Investors keeping an eye on vaccine development. Tor provides materials for vaccine candidates. The president and ceo Michael Stubblefield joins us for more. Michael, you provide Raw Materials for most of these vaccines
Georgia, but hes also leading that by just over 14000 votes. Officials say the recount will begin at the end of the week. The current margin stands at 14111 between the president and senator biden, Vice President biden. My office will continue to investigate each and every instance of illegal voting, double voting. Felon voting, people voting out of state. If you report it, we will investigate it. Every legal vote will count. Elevation has more from washington d. C. Dont trump isnt giving up the idea that hes won this election, hes been tweeting out in the last couple of hours that servers were allowed into accounts in pennsylvania and in michigan, he says that hundreds of thousands of votes shouldnt have been counted there. Therefore he wins. The reality is that the argument about observers has been tested in court in pennsylvania. It was through a note in michigan, the judge said it was simply hearsay that was being presented by the trump campaign. That they were basing their claim o
A vaccine as soon as possible i was there no effort to turn this pandemic around once were sworn in january 20th to get our kids back to School Safely our business is growing and our economy running full speed again and again to prove that c manufactured and distributed as quickly as possible to as Many Americans to as Many Americans as possible free of charge will follow the science head of the World Health Organization cautioned against seeing it as a Silver Bullet advice and is needed urgently to control the pandemic but as you know it will not fix the vulnerabilities at its roots advice seem proud of not address the Global Investment in the central park you can find shoes and brazilian tele systems. U. S. President has fired his defense secretary donald trump said marcus would be replaced by the head of the countrys Counterterrorism Center but Christopher Millers only set to be in place for just over 70 days before joe biden is inaugurated as commander in chief will be trumps 5th s
Joe biden is putting himself front and center. This was an event to discuss the Affordable Care act. But the president elect questions on other topics and he had a message to the man he will replace. And his refusal to accept the result. I just think its an embarrassment. Great, frankly. The only thing that how can we save this tax and i think it will not help the president s legacy. I think that i know from my discussions with foreign leaders of us for that they are hopeful that the United States Democratic Institutions are viewed once again as being strong and endure. And, but i think at the end of the day, you know, its all going to come to fruition in january 20th. All foreign leaders calling joe biden to congratulate him. Trump, secretary of state americas top diplomat, has called the result into question. It will be a smooth transition to a 2nd term administration. Hey, were ready. The world is watching whats taking place that were going to count all the votes. When the process i
Happening and who been also calling on Prime Minister nicole. To resign or the other people who actually say well no this was the right call for the Prime Minister to do because we were on a lost on the ground militarily i was soldiers were dying and we were going to even lose more ground had to cease fire can come into action at this point bearing in mind that the azeri forces were within kilometers from carrot Prime Minister thats the message actually that the Prime Minister has been trying to give it to to have armenians accept he said it is a very painful moment but he had no other choice that the fate of those 7 regions that surround her about have always been a precondition for azerbaijan to start even any kind of talks over the future of the enclave itself he said he had no way out of it and he said that armenia was fighting against. Army in azerbaijan but also it was not us or by general alone it was turkey helping them mercenaries thats a message coming out from him but he is