Fromw a bit of whip sawing the euphoria we saw yesterday on the back of the vaccine that was very promising from pfizer and biontech. Lets go straight to the markets and give you an idea of what they are doing this tuesday morning. The focus is on gold, some other things. For example, such as european stocks in general. Again, im excited to speak about the vaccine euphoria and some of the hurdles ahead. Maybe a little bit of profittaking after the rally we saw the last few days. Maybe the question of the vaccine is the question of the day. Bloombergto first word news and laura wright. Lauara the European Union is imposing tax on 4 billion of u. S. Good starting today as part of that titfortat escalation. Spirits, nuts, tractors and videogames. The eu says it will drop the duties if the u. S. Dropped levees imposed back in 2019. The u. K. House of lords has rejected breaking International Law over brexit. Voted to remove the most controversial part of the bill which comes with legal act
Veterans began . This actually started which stems from a documentary i did on the mississippi delta chinese. And i needed to find the right hook to tell the story of the Chinese Americans in the mississippi delta. Chinese American History is not sexy, so it took me almost 20 years to find the right way to tell this story, compelling enough to bring it a full audience. And i had the good fortune of meeting doctor Gwendolyn Gong who did a tremendous amount of research on the veterans, Service Personnel from mississippi delta. And from there, we discussed and talked about how to create a three part series that aired on pbs on the chinese and mississippi delta, and that got me interested in the world war ii veterans. So, honor and duty is really a compendium that all 22,000 plus Chinese Americans that served in world war ii, is that correct . Thats correct. This research was conducted over three years time. Actually, just a bit more than three years. We have been able to identify 22,827 w
Deviations. It is an historic surge in gold. Francine it certainly is, at we have been spending a lot of time on that and we will spend more time on gold. Lets get to first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika good morning. The fight over the chinese consulate in houston shows that hardliners now have the upper hand in the Trump Administration. President trump has allowed a small group of advisors led by Michael Pompeo to push u. S. Policy toward its most antagonistic in decades. U. S. Officials say china has a history of espionage and intellectual property theft. The Trump Administration and Senate Republicans are considering a shortterm extension of extra unemployment benefits. It is unlikely the white house and lawmakers will agree on a broader stimulus deal before the benefits expire. Millions of americans receive supplemental payments that were included in the last laurent virus package. Way for paving the soaring stock to join the s p 500 index. The electric carmaker reported thir
A great part of the country of mine that weve done were locked down we are the one rambling from mile where are the media going to go we go there and we give them a chance to tell their story. President for a 6th term the better russian leader claims a landslide victory the opposition call for a vote bring 1000 protesters are arrested is this a turning point for the country this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the show im samis a than his critics describe him as europes last dictator Alexander Lukashenko is set to rule the roost for a 6th term hes already been president for 26 years official results from sundays election say he won by a landslide but the opposition is rejecting that official result looking shanker as preelection popularity fell because of his handling of the krona virus pandemic and worsening economy he faced his toughest election challenger so far svetlana the one of sky a former teacher and stay at home mother with no political experience attracted huge support
Record high after a global meltdown melt up on monday. Futures are pointing lower. The cash trade tray is less than an hour away. Hong kong on notice. Microsoft joins google, facebook, and twitter in pausing government user data requests. Tiktok also pulls out of hong kong. The risk rally pauses. Equity markets and futures trade grow aboutncerns rising coronavirus infections. Bloomberg learns that Deutsche Bank and google are planning a 10 Year Partnership on cloud and tech investment. Computing and tech investment. Just under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading across europe. Futures are down right now. We see losses on ftse futures of 0. 5 . About 0. 6 . Es, futuresxx you choose down about 0. 7 . Yesterday we got germany factory orders, missing the mark. Coming out at a 10 gain compared to a 15 estimate. Now we are getting german 7. 8 . Rial output rising that is the month over month figure. The estimate was for 11. 1 . Dataagain, german economic missing the estimate,