At tray Glen Astrazeneca on the defense after critics say it failed to give an update on patient data on the vaccine trials. Futures after markets were closed for the thanksgiving holiday, they are in the green as you can see, dow jones 54 in the premarket. Weve got a lot to talk about today with wall street. Were going to have a half trading day today, markets closing at 1 00 p. M. Eastern time some good news to show you, nice gains there, the nasdaq is in record territory as the dow is looking to crack 30,000 once more today after the index crossed the milestone earlier in the week. Ruling on religious restrictions, the Supreme Court telling new York Governor Andrew Cuomo he cant put a capacity limit on houses of worship. Were on this story today. Plus, it is black friday, its going to look a little bit different. Retailers going with the shift to online sales as brick and Mortar Stores are rethinking foot traffic this year. Mornings with maria is live right now. Its a brandnew day.
Fed set 2022 and what the chairman will say and what i assume will be a Virtual Press conference today. Ofncine we will have plenty market action. We will look at the markets every 15 minutes, including what is happening in treasuries. We had the oecd coming out with their economic outlook. That was released about an hour ago, and the oecd, it is a smarter way of doing it, tom. Forecasting the pandemic would cause a Global Economic slump of 6 here, but if there is a second wave, that becomes a seven point 6 slump. It is a good way of visualizing percent comes a 7. 6 slump. By thewas taken aback differentials between the bar charts of europe and the United States. I did not have in my head how much worse the guesstimate is for gdp decline in the europe verses in the u. S. It is a very good report. Francine it is also because of where europe was in the economic cycle. Lets get straight to first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika good morning. A warning from jeffrey gund
Discussing enough what the Standard Chartered bank and hsbc is doing where they are saying they are going to agree to whatever with new security rules of hong kong. How big a deal of this in your london . Francine well, it was quite a big deal when they announced it. I think you and i spoke to stephen engle. He reminded us, it goes to show may be the influence that beijing has on some of these companies if they want to have licenses in mainland china. This is actually quite difficult to dig into the deep root of it. Now, we understand that there is a backlash from investors. Just yesterday, we had o aviva, one of the biggest investors in a lot of these banks, saying it is decisionable with the of hsbc and Standard Chartered, it is uncomfortable about the banks decisions. Tom absolutely fascinating what we see their. We have got lots of coverage through this hour and on through bloomberg surveillance. Theill be joined from school of chicago, the former leader of the central bank of indi
Erased but futures have jumped back into the green. Jim, we know its going to be another crazy week, very hard to predict. So what is your tell this week i thought the advice we got from friday ended the teeth of it but if the market is up, were still oversold and thats what you got for it but i dont think theres much that you want to buy i think youd rather wait until it goes back that swing, at 3 30, the futures were up 80, it was crazy, but i think what matters is that there are a lot of people, the feds will take action today and i come back, peter bachvar was on with dominic chu unless the fed can create a vaccine or beat the virus it doesnt matter you said on friday this is a biological crisis. Not ultimately it could i dont think it will turn into a liquidity crisis, for a state at home economy and when you have a Service Economy like we have, you get an upgrade for darden, for instance, last week, Cheesecake Factory are you kidding me anybody anywhere theres a gathering is goin
Families torn apart by the conflict. Going to die in the planes are bombing us the army is very close as the Syrian Government offensive against province intensifies we talk with a syrian refugee in germany desperate to get his family out of harms way plus arctic temperatures reach record high speed as scientists warn of dramatic and unforeseeable facts of warmer weather on the icy consonance and in villages legal football dortmund have been battling inconsistency as they aim to remain in the mix at the top of the table will be put to the test by research in frankfurt on friday night. Im called aspen. Thanks for joining me a laundry list of conflicts and uncertainty over the wests role in the world are the top issues at the Munich Security Conference which kicked off this afternoon nearly 3 dozen heads of States Diplomats and top Security Experts are coming together for the ne all gathering in southern germany the wests dwindling influence on Global Security has even spawned new term w