Saying china is the greatest threat to democracy worldwide. The u. S. The bloomberg u. S. Dollar index. Crude getting a lift after an opec agreement that came through. Theyre going to be keeping curbs in place in terms of production but we could see on a month by month basis some of those curbs being removed. Agrees to ease cuts more gradually. Gold about 1 10 of 1 lower. Bitcoin using some of its sheen and declinings extensive 1 . With all that in mind, lets find out what is happening in new york. Karina we start with the news on pfizer. It slumped on reported may ship only half of the vaccines it planned to this year. Issues supply chain will cut it to 50 million. Anthony found she is taking the u. K. For rushing to clear the pfizer vaccine. Moderna claims it shows what it claims is durability. Republican Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell is calling for a smaller more focused stimulus package for the u. S. Economy as democrats scale back demands to find a route forward. The base
Information technology and innovation foundation, which has been ranked for the past several years as ontop technology think tank. Be here today to partner on this great workshop on this event in particular, this panel. Im joined by lynn parker, assistant director for Artificial Intelligence White House Office of science and technology policy. Next to her jason, general manager for Corporate Standards Group at microsoft. Finally Anthony Robbins, Vice President for north American Public sector at in nvidia. So we have a great group of public and private sector experts that can talk about activities in the Standard Development space from both the industry using the standards and the people helping define u. S. Leadership in ai standards. So before we get launched into the discussion, which will be about 45 minutes, then an opportunity for audience q a at the end, i want to do a little bit of stage setting here. So the term ai often used to describe two different but related topics. There
We had these purchasing managers indices out of china. Gauge, fiveyear highs the unofficial passion days,n manufacture slipping to 51. 6. The prithe deficit that has from the official one. We have some of these large firms distorting things. Large firms are feeling bullish. So. L firms less tailored toa move shore up the economy. Pboc announcing it will reduce the amount of cash the banks must hold in reserve. The economy where it has been scarce. Its not the only pmis we have had. The few places in asisa, asia, the markets are trading. Most closed for a public holiday. Pmi in japan. Haidi we had the pmi data from the nikkei business morning. We had japanese stocks building on gains. Boding well for corporate warnings in Japan Corporate earnings in japan. We we ending higher and sellingng for seleign for chinese stock g for ringgit stocks down. Is sliding except for the hong kong dollar. They could be under pressure given the retreat we are seeing in oil. Falling after setting the two
Another market in the red down for 10th of a percent and now a Fourth Quarter gdp beat estimates, growing 2. 1 . Europe bonds lower than the quarter. Chinese stocks extending their around and doing good. Shanghai up 8 10 of a percent. Shanghai composite up for seven straight days. The highest level since the end of last month. Chinas january property prices falling a bit less than in december. I tell you which stocks are moving later in the program. To our top story. The debt drama in greece. Creditors talks collapsed in brussels. Finance minister said that greece refused to be considered a debt colony but said he does expect some sort of agreement this week. The greek government wants its current Bailout Program scrapped and is seeking an 11 bridge 11 million bridge loan instead. Josh, we will hear from you in a moment. Lets hear from the main players first. In the history of the European Union nothing good has come out of ultimatum. We proceed from crisis to crisis and this is how we
We will be tracking those across asia. We see shares in jakarta contained continuing again and a similar story in vietnam today. The Malaysian Ringgit climbing today. Rebels in india are making some rebels in libya are making some surprising moves. As elections kickoff and india, what better way than to launch all this off with a big deal as well. A 4 billion deal as far as generic Drugs Industry goes. It was a headache for one investor group. So we have another company who is prepared to take on that headache. The discount taking place perhaps because of it. Last week, ranbaxy rose 26 . Today, the ag sankyo which bought it back in 2008 is one of the for one of the few gainers on the naked 225, up 4. 5 . So that is clearly a market thumbsup on this deal. They are selling a 4 billion allstop bill. Allstock deal. They did not meet standards of the faa of the fda. There is an fda cloud hanging over it. Daiichi also has the fda hanging over one of its units. Ranbaxy already knows about the