Offers 90 protection, and france 2 finds that is a milestone. Azerbaijan says forces are edging closer to the enclaves capital after claiming victory in another strategic city. This is after armens Prime Minister insists that it hasnt fallen yet. First then, according to the latest data released by Johns Hopkins university, the covid19 infection rate continues to soar in nearly every u. S. State, with the total number of cases stateside standing above 10 million. A man who has been picked by americans to hold office in the next white house has been detailing how he plans to stamp out the virus after a meeting with his newly formed Coronavirus Task force. President elect joe biden has pleaded with his fellow countrymen and women to keep using a face mask as their best defense. This is what else he had to say. President elect biden this is a crisis that affects everyone. As i have said throughout this campaign, i will be a president for every american. This election is over. It is time t
Microphones anytime you speak. During the any time hearing, the chairman the vice chairman of the committee, congressman kennedy will serve as chair until i am able to return. Beuments for the record can sent to Benjamin Tabor at the email address provided to staff. All documents will be entered into the record at the conclusion of the hearing. The chair will not recognize herself for an opening statement. Today the energy and Commerce Committee continues its oversight of the nations covid19 Pandemic Response. Examining the pursuit of a safe and effective covid19 vaccine that the American People can trust. In the eight months that we battled covid19, over 7 million americans have had the virus, and over 200,000 of them have lost their lives. Millions of the phase unemployment and have lost their Health Insurance, and families are still juggling childcare and virtual classrooms. The list of those most vulnerable to covid19s especially on the line as the virus continues to spread across
New details on a possible Coronavirus Vaccine. Edward. Reporter connell that is what is propelling the markets today. We have positive news out of two vaccine makers. The first one pfizer. The ceo of pfizer says they will have enough Critical Data in october to be able to submit for approval should everything go as expected. He has said this before but this is a little different because it comes as astrazeneca saw a minor setback of trials in their vaccine. The pfizer ceo says he sees americans start being vaccinated before the end of 2020. The u. S. Government secured 100 million doses from pfizer this year with an option to get 500 million more next year. As of today, more than 29,000 people are in a phase three trial for pfizer. The fda hopes to have 30,000 volunteers and pfizer says it will be there next week on the way to 44,000 people. Of those, 24 in the study are minorities. That is something that the fda wants to see. They want to make sure this works among a Diverse Group of
More Domestic Travel to a little more overseas travel now. Theaad lets get to markets and have a look at what is going on. Nikkei, in with the leading japanese shares, just seeing stocks drifting to the upside. We did see jobless numbers come out. Slightly better than expected, looking for a 3 jobless rate, but 2. 9 . Looking elsewhere, retail sales out of hong kong, looking also at the futures for the u. S. , pretty much flat. Asian equities drifting slightly to the upside. Looking at the shanghai composite, lets look at how the gpi is behaving as well. Just about flat. The shanghai comp, 0. 2 lower. Chinese Economic Activity continued to rebound. Expansion in manufacturing activity, just slowing slightly there. A Rate Decision out of australia later on. Expecting the rba to keep rates. And the singapore market 0. 6 lower. Quick check on the currency is, weve got a fifth straight monthly drop for the dollar. Bloomberg dollar index down by 0. 25 . The yen, a tad weaker. Euro currently
Weeks kenosha shooter may have acted in selfdefense. He visits the city today. Jp morgan says investors should prepare for the possibility of a second term. The German Government is said to expect a smaller fallout from coronavirus than previously thought. Italy and spain also had the tape. Apple, ship. Up. M in, wire me up, bid it they are ordering 80 million new 5g phones. The world is safe. Annmarie is picking much roughly in line with what apple produced last year. This is something we will look at as we head into the european open and Bloomberg Intelligence note this morning said that augusts rally in tech shares is very different in the United States versus asia. While apple is doing well, huawei under immense pressure. It says to me that we are seeing that bifurcated tech market that many analysts have been worried about. Manus when you do a stock split, five to one on tesla. He is standing here, his pockets are heavy with tesla stocks. How are your stocks . Good morning. Lets l