Emergency use authorization next week. But there is a caveat, the efficacy of the j js vaccine dropped 57 from the highly contagious variant from south africa. Despite the travel van to stop that variant from coming over here, the new variant is already here. Two cases identified this week in South Carolina with two patients with no ties to each other and no travel history given that, signals community spread. During todays White House Briefing dr. Anthony fauci stressed the importance of vaccinating as many people as possible, as quickly as possible, before those mutant strains get out of control. Whether or not thats going to ultimately take over in the sense of being dominant is unclear by now. The projection that is made with regard to the uk is that probably by the end of march, the beginning of april, it actually will become more dominant in this country. The fundamental principle of getting people vaccinated as quickly and as efficiently as you possible can will always be the be
Month of september, strong Consumer Sentiment numbers to go along with them. And later, gilead pushing back after the World Health Organization says the drug remdesivir does not prevent death in coronavirus patients. Weve got the latest details as power lunch starts right now thank you, ty. The markets are marching back after a few down days. Dom chu has more on whats moving decent sized gains but off the high of the session. We are up 243 points with the dow at the highs of the session, up roughly 348 points. You can see there, yes, still strong gains but not nearly where we were earlier in the day. The s p has reclaimed that 3,500 mark, the nasdaq only up about one third of 1 . The leadership in terms of the s p 500 has been in one week industrials and technology, both up nearly about 1. 5 meanwhile, the biggest laggard off nearly 2 is the real estate sector some of the stocks to watch with regard to covid vaccines and everything else, pfizer shares, possible vaccine for emergency us
Masterca mastercard, microsoft and u. P. S. All lower on the back of their results as well. Bund yields and oil are lower. Tenyear yield, 0. 77 . All 11 s p 500 sectors are lower, sharply lower thats the heat map of all s p 500 stocks very few are green as you can see above me just less than 3 of declines for all three of the major indices, sara. We will ask allianz chief economic adviser mohammed elbrian. Monitoring two live events at this hour, expected speech from french president emanuel macron and a statement from dr. Fauci mike santoli covering the market selloff meg tirrell with more details on the covid spike in the u. S. And europe and ylan mui start us off with the selloff, mike starting to do some damage third day in a row for the s p. Its starting to cut a little deeper the hope gave way and did accelerate the down side multiple pressure points on this market causing investors to have a harder time looking across this valley of growth, right covid case cuts. We dont know wh
Europe here. We initially saw quite a negative story coming out of europe. In the United States, maybe some stimulus talks helping propel the story a bit higher. The s p up by over 1 . The euro has come back. It is still negative on the day. We did have a 1. 16 handle. We now have a 1. 17 handle, but we have seen continuing dismal inflation data out of the eurozone. Yesterday was germany. Today it is france. A 0. 6 print. We get the final number friday. Alix totally different from the u. S. , in that we are able to generate some inflation. Christine lagarde with her strongest signal that the ecb will change its goal. She said it may be worth examining a strategy that allows inflation to temporarily rise above the target rate, similar to the feds shift. We need to thoroughly analyze the forces driving inflation dynamics today, and consider whether and how we should adjust our strategy in response. The anchoring of fixed rate expectations might have loosened. The wider discussion today i
Have a durable exit from the health crisis. Including Amnesty International had written to the g20 finance ministers ahead of that meeting to warn that the world is facing a crisis unlike any in the last century, and that debt suspension is only a first step. The group said many of the poorest nations are spending more on debt payments than on lifesaving public services. There is growing pressure on british Prime Minister Boris Johnson to order a socalled lockdown. The Opposition Labor Party and government Scientists Say it is needed to get the coronavirus under control. Deaths have soared to the highest level since june. Concerns are mounting that johnsons new system of restrictions will not be enough. Pressure continues to see a Record Number of coronavirus cases. Officials work reported 14,000 new cases today, the most since the beginning of the pandemic. Russia has the Worlds Largest caseload. Despite a surge in new cases, russian authorities have dismissed suggestions of a Second