Participating in the trial. We want to break it down more. What do we know . What are the questions . Reporter pfizer is telling us they have a vaccine that appears to be more than 90 effective. They studied this immunization in 43,000 people, and within about a week after the second dose, they found that more than 90 of people who got the vaccine were protected against the actual coronavirus. Know that it didnt take very long. We dont know the actual numbers of how we people were infected, but if we are looking at more than a 90 effectiveness rate, which was much higher than anyone expected, we are getting suggestions that this vaccine is quickly protective for many people. We still dont have news on how long it is going to last. We dont know whether or not there will be any safety signals. After that, they might be filing for emergency use authorization. Jonathan what kind of vaccine is this alix what kind of vaccine is this . Vaccine. It is an mrna theres nothing like this that exis
Within the perfect Indian Summer of new york, we see a nation counting every vote. Is 2. 5 . Within the counting of votes is the new slow bouncing off of this political moment. Ive got eight ways to go in this opening, and i am going to go jon ferro where you have been, which is the renminbi just moving to new strengths moments ago. Jonathan dollar weakness has got to be the story. We talked about this through the morning. The counting continues. This race is too close to call. This market, the event they are anticipating is a Joe Biden White house, and what that means for the economy and these currencies. They are assuming it will mean a weaker dollar, and that is what youve got on the screen, not just against the chinese currency. It is broadbased through the whole of g10. Tom the emotion in the United Kingdom, i saw the five letter word march and my heart skipped a beat. What are the ramifications of extending a locked three additional months . Jonathan i know very few people who th
Street audience. It is really important to look at the levels here and not the abrupt changes day after day. Moments ago, s p futures 3500. Dow level, 29,000 plus. Nasdaq 100 level, 12,000. That is a market that is adjusting. Jonathan the nasdaq up 9 since election day. Three days, nasdaq futures up 9 . Can you make sense of some of this price action . Tom absolutely not. Jonathan seeing the equity market up this much is pretty impressive. Tom we can pontificate about it. Lisa will have all of the answers about why we are moving up. Just in the last hour, yields come in. Of all of the political debate this morning, the one little tea leaf was in georgia. Mr. Biden narrows the gap with 96 counted. Tom you mentioned jonathan you mentioned the bond market. The company continues. Lisa if you want a neat narrative, you can but fun of me and tell me it is wrong, and it probably is, but i think the narrative of the day is that the fed its going to have to provide more support to the economy b
Uch more going on in this hour, chair yellen will join us. I will ask about the speculation of her taking a position within the biden administration. Yes, we will talk about Climate Change and the Nobel Laureates process. I want to go to the equity markets right now, and ben laidler talking about a multiple. Is this morning the beginning of a melt up . Jonathan not for me to call that. The habit talk around the happy talk around more stimulus, maybe. This market just wants to go higher. Market participants find a narrative to tell us why is going higher. Three months ago, a blue wave was bearish. Three months forward, a blue wave potentially is now bullish. I think that is this i think that is just the mood of market because of its right now. Tom what is so important then is to see the china gdp statistic today. 4. X percent is 4. X percent. Jonathan we have been talking about the Global Economy as one complete entity. There is so much divergence right now. The chinese economy is reall
Sunday. Meanwhile we should note that this comes as joe biden is going to be attending a town hall on abc this evening. That is set to begin at 9 00 eastern. It comes as President Trump will also have a town hall at the 8 00 eastern our, and they will be on abc and nbc respectively. This is supposed to be the night of the debate, but that has been canceled. David dueling town meetings on two rival networks. Is there any reason to believe this information will interfere with that town hall meeting from joe biden tonight or with Kamala Harris being back on the campaign trail monday . Kevin no. They are saying theyre having rapid tests throughout several days, they test both of the candidates and staffers. President trump weighing in earlier today, saying he takes frequent tests but did not specify how many tests. David thank you so much to our chief washington correspondent. Every day bring some new development that may or may not affect the election. What are the markets telling us abou