Bedeviled the world and this could be a sign they had been long waiting for. Hope springs eternal here and you obviously need something beyond just phase two trials that look promise. Well get into that with a top doctor. Meantime look what is going on in wall street here and why everything is looking green thus far. Jackie deangelis on that. Hey, jackie. Reporter good afternoon, neil. Everything is green as you said. Moderna seeing a huge pop on this news today and the dow is up more than 800 points and the point here is weve been talking about therapies, weve been talking about treatments but there is Nothing Better in terms of reopening the American Economy than a vaccine that would prevent people from getting the coronavirus. That is why you have this kind of optimism today. Now this was data from a phase one trial as you mentioned. So it is still very early here but it does mean, that the company can move forward. It is saying the goal to get to phase three in july. If everything
Warns of the dangers of misinformation his countrys fight coronavirus and on World Press Freedom day insists that journalistic crucial to battling it. A leading voice in the fight against corruption says corona virus has created a perfect storm of opportunity for criminals a lack of action and income is making athletes more vulnerable to illegal approaches. It is just after 10 g. M. T. And Afghanistans Health Ministry is raising an alarm over the spread of the corona Virus Outbreak random tests in kabul suggest that a 3rd of the population in the capital could be infected russia meanwhile has reported a 50 percent rise in the rate of infections over the past 3 days with more than 10600. 00 new cases on sunday but the government says that mortality rate had slowed and iran is set to reopen some of its mosques the day after it reported its lowest number of new cases in over a month the president Hassan Rouhani has geraniums to maintain social distancing saying its more important than col
Orders the numbers are not pretty the dow on track for its worst First Quarter ever falling more than 20 Retail Stocks are front and center as the coronavirus handcuffs the once strong u. S. Consumer how long will the pain last . Well dig in on that this hour bob, we begin with you and the markets today. Good riddance to this First Quarter of second worst quarter s p history. This is why everybody is hopeful about rebalancing a little bit here corporate bonds, flat and high yield down 12 be. Reminding us in a recession these kinds of bonds, high yield tend to act like stocks. A little bit reminder about that we have good news and bad news the good news is the president is out today pushing an infrastructure stimulus. That would be a number of programs out there we have progress on the vaccines and testing. The fed and congress have gotten very aggressive in the last few weeks. All good news. Theres still bad news we havent begun to see the really bad Economic News the market is very do
I will be the moderator. Am Liselotte Odgaard i put together this panel which i think is on a key issue in d. C. And globally indeed. It is talked about a lot although there are not that many panels about the topic around town. I look forward to this discussion. I mentioned to come up for the past couple of years, there has been a lot of debate about Multilateral Institutions and on chinas influence and how that is quickly growing and leading to changes in the fundamental rules of the since to two nations and also giving rise to alternatives to the old ones. And one question that arises the is does that make institutions that we already have counterproductive to preserving a liberal world order when authoritarian states rise within the institutions . And partly take over responsibility for them . Another key issue is the one on fragile states. They seem to be continuously bogged down in poverty, lack of education, etc. Although we have spent decades on development aid, peacekeeping, et
From the Hudson Institute, this is an hour and a half. Good day and welcome to the Hudson Institute and thank you for showing up for this panel on Multilateral Institutions. Indispensable or irrelevant to global peace and prosperity. I will be the moderator. Am Liselotte Odgaard i put together this panel which i think is on a key issue in d. C. And globally indeed. It is talked about a lot although there are not that many panels about the topic around town. I look forward to this discussion. I mentioned to come up for the past couple of years, there has been a lot of debate about Multilateral Institutions and on chinas influence and how that is quickly growing and leading to changes in the fundamental rules of the since to two nations and also giving rise to alternatives to the old ones. And one question that arises the is does that make institutions that we already have counterproductive to preserving a liberal world order when authoritarian states rise within the institutions . And p