Upside. Looking at commodities. Crude moving to the upside. A big move to the downside with , on the vaccine and signs of Economic Growth in the u. S. Particularly helping people not to look for havens or avoid havens, get out of them. Gold down half of 1 . Bitcoin surging up again, it has above 18,500. Juliette lets get the first word news. The head of the u. S. Government Coronavirus Vaccine program says results of trials by astrazeneca show encouraging signs it may help block the most severe cases. No one given the vaccine developed severe covid, while 16 people on the placebo debt. He called the results excited. Nine, reports 70 process astrazeneca report 70 success. The centers for Disease Control a model shows weekly u. S. Cases and deaths rising every week for at least the next month. Italy is the Second European nation to report 50,000 total fatalities. The u. K. Is extending lockdown next week in favor of even tougher regional curbs. Reports from washington say the Trump Admin
A no fly zone to stamp out its a separate the struggle that mark plans to cold minks in the country to contain a mutated form all of coronavirus. Well its 1400 g. M. T. And the day is just Getting Started its in the eastern United States and its been 3 days since election day but we still cant say who the next president of the United States is things are heating up though every error the gap is narrowing we see donald trump and joe biden lets take you through the state of the race as it stands we have 4 battleground states that are still being counted in any single win for joe biden could effectively and this race he is now i had joe biden is not ahead in. Georgia. In the last few minutes hes just crept ahead in the state of pennsylvania trump though he is still leading in the state of North Carolina but the margins are reserved thin the states being karen says you can see here in yellow and this means that biden has 264 Electoral College votes trump has 214 the number so hits as ever
United states. Its stoned to each and every vote its the race to the white house is heading for a full 2 finish with the gap not donald trump until biden in the battleground states. Democratic and republican supporters trade calls to count every ballot dollar trump a game that makes on the proven claims of folks are frauds. And after deploying troops and ethiopias north the president to clear is the region a no fly zone to stamp out a separatist struggle. And im far as well have all the days sport including a miserable night for ac milan as they suffered their worst ever european defeat at the san siro. But its been 3 days since election day but americans are still waiting to find out who will be their next president. The race to the white house is headed for a 4 to finish with every hour narrow in the gap between donald trump and joe biden well heres the overall picture there are just 4 battleground states left to catch any one of them could give joe biden the win now hes just pulled
Services. Westpacs full year profits plunge after fines for Money Laundering. Cash earnings falls. One of those stocks where watching going into the sydney open. Lets look at the market open. Sophie . Expecting some moves this monday. The biggest weekly drop since september 25 as investors adjust the some of the risk ahead. We did have the worst week for aussie stocks since april. Adding 0. 1 . We have amp shares gaining trillionter the this wealth manager said that a preliminary takeover approach of every management values the company at 4. 5 billion. Westpac has results out this morning. Later this week we get results upm alibaba which ticked single day sales early on sunday. The ipo is a big event we are watching this week. We are expecting a big pop here on thursday given the massive appetite we have seen for the offering. Friday had the biggest drop since june. Of a private survey of chinese manufacturing data. To focus more on the u. N. , lets pull up on the chart on the terminal
the australian tennis star nick kyrgios is due in court in canberra later, charged with an alleged assault of a former partner in 2021. and covid, vaccines, and those conspiracy theories we speak to the microsoft founder and philanthropist, bill gates. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello, and welcome to the programme. we start with breaking news from the us where the defence department says it s confident a balloon spotted over montana is a surveillance platform from china. a short while ago, the pentagon press secretary brigadier general pat ryder put a statement on the us department of defence website confirming the high altitude surveillance balloon is being tracked. he added. he also said. i m joined now by peter bowes for more on this story. peter, great to get you on the show. in the first instance, what do we know about this? well, according to the pentagon, we know that the surveillance balloon, believed to be china s, has be