A look straight ahead with a packed show today so lets dive right in. And u. S. Markets surged today on hopes of global economys reopening and more specifically news regarding a Coronavirus Vaccine and vaccine is what we want to focus on here at the top of the program u. S. Based pharmaceutical giant merck announced tuesday it will buy austrian vaccine producer themis bio science and would work with research nonprofit. To develop 2 separate vaccines now merck and also announced a new partnership with ridgeback biopharma bio therapeutics to work on an experimental oral antiviral drug to combat co but 19 as far as timelines for these vaccines mercks says the themis vaccine will be ready to start vaccinating volunteers within weeks while the. Vaccine will be ready for human trials at some point this year now meanwhile maryland based biotech firm novaks says it is ready to start Clinical Trials of its vaccine this week a. Australia citing optimism on the developments. With your knowledge you were writing to the table we know the preclinical translate very well and so are all the. Buyer for the company says it will inject 131. 00 volunteers between the ages of 18. 59 at 2 separate locations within australia novak hopes to see results as early as july of this year and these are just a few moves happening in the vaccine space with this just this week and since the start of the pandemic we have seen reports of vaccines being developed by a multitude of companies in varying stages of development which have sent share prices sky high lets go through some numbers here novaks which we just mentioned has seen a 1000 per cent jump in their stock since the beginning of the year starting out the year at just under over 4. 00 per share and heading as high as 50. 00 per share and then there is Biotech Company madeira which reported positive data on its early stage human trials for a covert 1000. 00 vaccine last week while their prices have soared more than 200 percent since the start of the year moving to a no vo which has also last week reported positive data regarding their vaccine neutralizing antibodies in animals well their stock is up more than 350 percent just this year and its not just vaccines either Gilead Sciences has been working on their experimental antiviral drugs does appear which has been shown to shorten Recovery Time for coping 1000 by up to 4 days well gilliard stock is up more than 13 percent year to date but had previously spiked much higher we will note that merck has also had some has seen no substantial gain this year but is mostly due to being a relatively late comer to the Coronavirus Vaccine race now with all this news a huge amounts of money is being made how close are we really to a vaccine that will allow life to return to normal so lets bring it to a bus cohost christi i. To break it all down kristie i want to get right to it what do we need to know about all of these biotech and pharmaceutical Companies Making big bucks off the development of the vaccine despite not having a clear timeline for when we may actually have one when they may actually be working on finalising one for that matter. You know as well the vaccine business is huge as we are now and the u. S. Has spent nearly 700000000 of taxpayer money on crown of i research alone and thats more than any other country and so the way our system works the government grants exclusivity to pharmaceutical companies in order to conduct later Stage Drug Development and publicly funded inventions and that is without requiring that these drugs be widely affordable or accessible to the public so this means that all these Pharma Companies are racing towards a huge potential payoff the u. S. G. Lacks the basic price control that other countries have giving these Drug Companies more freedom over setting prices for their products than anywhere else in the world and now on top of that as you just mentioned with all these boosted stock prices all these publicly traded biotech names are being massively inflated on hope optimism and rumor and the old saying is buy the rumor sell the news this is totally a look at all right now in any hype situation such as this one where the valuation of the company rises on hype and rumor and chatter that some sort of vaccine is in the works and has potential now of course when reality hits that there are delays our Clinical Trials are not as significant as expected as was the case with daily ad thats when you really sell the news and its interesting because in 2020 and the way things worked out it appears that rumors are the news which are also kind of pushing it up because you see reports day after day of oh they might have this or theyve seen positive news in these trials but again we havent seen any any any actual evidence here and i want to move it to the next stage of vaccines ok so we get a working vaccine now theyre saying this could be of course 18 months away still to actually developing and finding it then we have to produce it and then what about the logistics after you finish developing this and producing it to actually be able to administer it to the worlds population what do we have there. Yes will that be significant a lot of just to go challenges around distributing enough doses for the global population not to mention legal challenges is this going to be a mandatory. Vaccine Going Forward or is it going to be optional now experts say that this Vaccination Program will require millions of citizens of all age groups to be vaccinated within a very short span of time and this will be very difficult given the lack of robust cold chains and cold chains are whats used to distribute these vaccines especially in a low Income Countries manufacturing enough doses and ensuring supply to keep up with demand will certainly texas system and then before the vaccines can even begin theres also certain legal matters to address such as damage liability between the w. H. O. The manufacturers providing the vaccines and the recipient countries and then of course the question is of course who gets the vaccine 1st how do you prioritize countries do you go where the cases are slowing down so that you can completely squash and eradicate it or do you give it to the countries that are peaking at the lower and lower Income Countries that currently dont even have good cold chain supplies in place and there kristie with all these companies that have been working on vaccines who have reported things or theres of course gilad durnan over vaccine know for now merck involved who is actually the front runner in all of this. You know theres a lot of mixed daycare especially as all of them are in completely different stages of their respective Clinical Trials so this makes it a little bit difficult to gauge efficacy as each one is starting from a different level but all in all china is actually the one to be pulling ahead in the race to find a vaccine Chinese Research teams are accounting for 60 percent of vaccine candidates currently human trials already now there are 2 over 224. 00 vaccines in development around the world thats almost double that of the just a month ago and while the u. S. Has the largest number of vaccine projects underway accounting for 49 percent of the worlds total china is the furthest along in the Development Track 10 vaccines have progressed to fill in trials globally where 6 are chinese and this is the only country to have a candidate now firmly in phase 2 trials now kristie want to take a broader look at markets lets bring in sean hymen. Joining us from dallas is the editor of logical investor will bring you into the conversation now we talked about the broader the market surge that weve seen today and on renewed hopes and optimism of a reopening it and now this new merck vaccine which just sounds like theyre developing where is all this coming from and is this market positivity is it sustainable. Not only that is the stain of will because if you think about it you know the work c. E. O. Said that even 18 month timeframe was way too aggressive in so youre probably looking at 2 or 3 years at best because the average vaccine takes 10. 7 years to actually get through all the trials to the public so a lot of these things are in phase one trials and phase 23 possibly face 4 sometimes and so it just takes a lot longer than people think so youre going to see stocks take another dive down once the market is really realizing this peas are way to hound the s. And p. 500. 00 the earnings are declining and youve got Retail Investor sentiment thats way too bullish and that just didnt happen at market bottoms and now chris that we have is they just discussed how farm is banking amid the pandemic but what do you see when it comes to overall Market Sentiment do you agree with what shawn just said here. I believe the data is definitely indicating that we are due for another pullback however there is quite a bit of optimism and hope in the market that will sustain this bullish rally so right now lock down have become laxer hope as promised when we see Consumer Confidence jump to 86. 6 thats months which is a good indicator sunday new home sales in april also top expectations and for all the technical traders out there the s. And p. Crossed its 200 Day Moving Average for the 1st time since march 6th so being above that and having a 200 day as a support is quite a bullish indicator so obviously we are 5 in the buy that when i saw the news mode so we shall see what the next when the other she will fall and i shant i want to take all the other another step aside here all is now rising above 34. 00 per barrel following speculation from russia that the market may rebalance as early as next month after the historic output cuts from global producers is this an accurate assessment or is it too optimistic to count on a demand recovery when half of the world is still on lockdown. So i think theres going to be recovery you know it might end up being july august Something Like that before theres a balance but remember markets anticipate that type stuff and so do traders and investors will start running up oil in anticipation of it so i do believe oil can continue to head up higher overall now there will be volatile pullbacks for sure and theyll be sizable but i do believe that oil can make it back to the 45 to 55 area either side of the 200 Day Moving Average i believe youll see it you know settle in and then you know theres a bit of supply that will cap it out probably somewhere around in that area for a good while and i guess shot i guess the big question i have about that is when are we going to see that when do you anticipate those those numbers normalizing. I think that you know you can step back pretty fast to those areas because you think about we almost put the market into the economy rather into a coma not just us but globally and now were kind of flipping the switch slowly back on and so theres a lot of demand thats going to come back in and help soak up some of that course russia even the u. S. Show world rulers everybodys trying to get supply down so i think everybodys got incentive to get it back up its more of a dimmer switch than a necessarily a normal open source there it is kristie i want to move over the age of the u. S. And try to continue to escalate whats the latest there. So the 2 sides continuously are pecking at each other and on monday the u. S. National security adviser obrien he publicly refuted reports that china has been engaging in espionage on us by virus vaccine efforts and that is without any definitive proof or source or backup evidence so of course thats march response in a tweet that read is this the new normal logic that if anyone has Something Better than mine then it must be stolen from me so china also called us threats to impose sanctions a big fat nothing burger and that the rights to remove hong kong from its special trade status a political bluff china reiterated that the entire western world will not follow the us because it was unable to provide enough products and Goods Services labor manpower and compensation to offset the losses if the western countries become alienated from china so this is tragic lets remember the rest while in a very difficult position to choose one side and risk the consequences of the other shown himon of the logical investor and boom bust cohost christiane thank you both so much for that expert analysis. And there may be some relief for the thousands of consumers swindled by the volkswagen a missions cheating scandal after ruling in a German Federal court monday arties peter oliver is in berlin and files this report. Diesel gate scandal just wont go away as germanys how you a civil court has ruled that volkswagen must buy back from customers because that would design to cheat tests. Come down to put a condom in reimbursement from the defenders for the Purchase Price of his vehicle according to the current condition of the vehicle not being in the bahamas to make a court of appeals and so we know it seems. This ruling has set precedent for around 60000. 00 similar cases across germany that are currently pending the w. Has already settled a previous claim by almost a quarter of a 1000000 german car owners by paying out just short of a 1000000000. 00 was there to most of cholesterol accepted the ruling and put out a statement saying theyd be in touch with those seeking compensation. Is now seeking to bring these proceedings to a prompt conclusion in agreement with the plaintiffs we will therefore approach the plane as with adequate settlement proposals worldwide volkswagen is forked out around 33000000000. 00 in fines compensation and buyback schemes since the scandal 1st broke in 2015 the lion share of that some 25000000000 going to customers in the United States the emissions test cheating scandal continues to rumble on in july the same court that made the ruling on monday will be hearing the case against dealerships that sold the cars while senior current and former v. W. Employees here in germany are still facing criminal charges over their involvement in this scandal. And time now for a quick break but hang here because when we return as tracking becomes a reality a person nations of the pandemic privacy concerns are about. To move to set a benchmark for the rest of the globe we take a look straight ahead and as we go to break here the numbers at the close. 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Says while other states from oregon to pennsylvania are also showing signs of progress but even as the picture of the national the National Picture improves overall about a dozen states are also reporting a small increase in the numbers now as states that opened earlier are never fully shotgun are among those are signs of further spread now for example bama florida georgia north carolina. Tennessee are among the states that had a recent growth in new cases and several weeks after reopening now arkansas and north dakota 2 states that have shut down businesses but did not issue formal stam home orders also are reporting it increase in cases now washington d. C. That has been actually on lockdown for weeks and also saw it jump in increases in new cases and theyre planning to reopen phase one on may 29th but now also want to take a look at how the u. S. Compares to the top 5 countries affected by the virus by their number of deaths now while you see here us actually in the number of deaths its going down and there is 2 countries that are increasing are brazil and india vs and russia actually all 3 india russia and brazil youll see the trend there actually increasing in debts of words as us and the u. K. Are actually going down so this is where we are at the moment in terms of just the countries in their trend in the number of that rant and what about nations worldwide with the most new cases that were seeing right now so the list of the top 5 countries with the most new reported cases and this is monday 525 now you have the u. S. Which is still leading in terms of the number of cases they have 1. 7 and then you also have but then we have total deaths to us is number one and then number 2 is brazil now just within the last 24 hours brazil has reported over 13000. 00 new cas