Will try to fill in his space as he expresses his culinary abilities. Francine we will get clarification on what he is working on. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika good morning. S p global is on the verge of a giant deal in the Financial Information industry. Bloomberg has learned that the company is in advanced talks to for 44s markets billion. An agreement could be announced as soon as today. It would be the second biggest deal of the year. President trumps coronavirus taskforces propping promising a rapid rollout of the vaccine to 2 million americans i the end of the year. The Surgeon General expects that most americans will have access by early in the second quarter. He says the government hopes to quickly ok requests from two drugmakers for emergency approval of their vaccines. A group of opecplus ministers could reach an agreement on whether to delay januarys oil a fullincrease, before meeting of the cartel and its allies today.
Michele. This is one of the most difficult things to accept, that this market does not have to reflect what is going on in this economy. Can you speak to that . Bob i can speak to that because im in the bond market and it is reflecting perfectly what is going on. We just printed 33 gdp. There is a giant hole that we think will take 10 years to fill the output gap that has been created. The fed is telling us for a long period of time they will keep rates at zero because they have to bring the cost of funding down across the system so that any kind of recovery takes hold. Slowly, Bond Investors are recognizing that, and that has emboldened them to move further up the curve both in terms of duration and lower in credit quality. Jonathan we have had conversations about market distortions. The equity market, Big Tech Companies dominating the benchmarks in the u. S. What is the cleanest trade in fixed income to play an economy that would take 10 years to fully recover . Bob there are two cle
Protesters brought the citys financial district to a standstill. Teargas disrupting the commute for a second consecutive day. Executive carrie lam says she still hopes district elections will be held as scheduled. We still hope we can hold the elections and try our very best to do so because it is an important election to respect and safeguard, but theres the issue of safety in order, so we have to work hard to satisfy these two requirements. Alix 20 meet on the phone from hong kong is karen joining me on the phone from hong kong is karen leigh. What happens next . Karen carrie lam urging order, and at the same time, we had two days of really jarring images and clashes, especially here in the financial hub. These arent images weve seen before. This feels like a bit of an escalation. This is something that led police this afternoon to warn that the city was on the brink of total breakdown. Carrie lam talking about how she still hopes district elections will be held in a couple of weeks.
Of extreme and hard won National Pride as news 4s Aaron Gilchrist reports it all started with a simple decree. I believe that this nation should commit itself to chieving the goal before this decade is out of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. President john f. Kennedy in 1961 setting this country off on a very clear, very bold mission, and launching the apollo program. More than a decade of lunar exploration, a 20 billion, 400,000 person investment in winning the space race. The center piece of the program, apollo 11. On july 16th 1969 nasa astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins auzz aldrin made their way to launch pad 39 a at the Kennedy Space center, destined for greatness. Three, two, one. Crowds in awe, force in rumble of a rocket carrying apollo 11 took their breaths away. Four days later a manmade history on the moon. The eagle has landed. Rocket tranilitish we copy you on thero gd. Youve got a bunch of guys about to turn blue, were breathing ag
For today. Not only do th see , but were also seeing the very hot temperatures. You can see the temperatures right now. On the warm side. Again, the temperatures are in the 90s right now. You see the 70s out there. Thats where weme have so rain showers rolling through the area. Let me show you the showers and storms that ar out there. We have a severew thunderstorm ning to the south and west for loudoun, clark, warren, fauquier and Rappahannock County until 4 30. Well continue to watch that as it moves up the north and east at a pretty good rate, about 35 Miles Per Hour. Could have a downburst so well continue to watch the storm as remainder of the the afternoon. Can you see the storms are leading all the way back into west virginia. Of course we he the heat advisory until 8 00 p. M. Tonight. Its rather warm around here, beotuse its narm enough already. The heat indices are well into the triple digits at this moment. Were going to continue to trac. This stor just to the south and west