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
Classes. Pricee the new york crude under pressure. We have this key meeting taking place of opec plus today and tomorrow. The gold price at the moment is showing weakness. Buy yourself finance. Bitcoin is erasing some of the 9 . Es by going up nearly lets look at the other first word news headlines. Lets join karina mitchell. Karina bloomberg has learned readingna the latest on chinas economy shows recovery is getting momentum. Manufacturing and services, pmi data both beat estimations. In aty performance came 52. 1. The economy is gaining strength despite sporadic epics of covid19. Bloomberg has learned chinese regulatory officials have said that the chances of jack mas stockoup revising its are looking slim. They are still reviewing changes needed to appease regulators. An additional delay would be a setback for ma. Has big dollars the fight to overturn his election will not reach the supreme court. He told fox it is hard to send a case there and he probably wont succeed. He rehashed
Obtain. What you might see is a bit more bitesized approach to aspects of the trading agreements. To get a greater engagement in a more constructive engagement. You talked about the covid recession. We have had a second wave of covid coming across europe in the last couple months. Indicators of the economy show that is causing a double dip in many economies in terms of activity. Youhelpful you are are that we could have a fast recovery this time around and see that vshaped recovery people have talked about . I think the vaccine is going to be a very important story for the 2021. From the irish perspective we moved early on in the early the second wave, the Second Lowest interest in europe now. We are doing very well in terms of the downward trajectory of caseys. Of cases in hospital and icu. Somewhere at the end of this month we move out of what we call level 5. Our schools of state construction has stayed open. Our domestic economy. Our investment side is doing very well. Science and
Coming up. The future of the Supreme Court hangs in the balance the death of Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg sparking political debate plus her friendship with Antonin Scalia coming up and Kayleigh Mcenany is here and eugene will join me at 8 a. M. Eastern. Mornings with maria is live right now this monday morning. Global markets this morning under selling pressure underway this morning, the down 207 points and cac down 153 and dax in germany down 400 points. 402 loir concerns of growing about u. K. Economy and it is going to go into a second lockdown over the coronavirus cases as they rise. People in the u. K. Who violate selfisolation rules face fines now of up to 13,000. In asia overnight decline acrossed board there as we also on heels of three straight weeks of decline in the u. S. , as you can see japan is closed for a holiday, but the worst performer in hong kong hang seng index down beaters than 2 . Hang seng down 2. As hsb shares slide to a 25year low. Weve got the news on bank th
Colleges are told to offload holdings of mainland companies. Australia signs a deal to make any covid19 vaccine for all. The government will distribute should it prove successful. More vaccine optimism playing out in australia. Lets look at how we are shaping up in terms of the u. S. Future session. Another renewed push of momentum in u. S. Markets overnight, hitting the record, propelled again by the same names. Also betterthanexpected u. S. Housing data. 2016 helping out sentiment, as well. We have positivity when it comes to the active futures trading at the moment. The nikkei 225 trading in chicago, looking flat at the moment ahead of a trade balance numbers, as well as machinery orders. We do have the topix, best performer in terms of Global Markets so far in this month of august. We are looking at broad weakness when it comes to the u. S. Dollar. The dollar sinking to his lowest levels since may of 2018. Im worried about the u. S. Economy with yet no relief package, stimulus pack