Moderna’s Vaccine & Merger Monday
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🗓️ 16 November 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Moderna shares hit a new high after promising results from the latest trial of their Covid-19 vaccine. Simon Property Group finalizes a deal to buy rival mall operator Taubman Centers. Home Depot buys HD Supply in a deal worth $8 billion. Bill Barker analyzes those stories, as well as PNC Financial’s deal to acquire the U.S. business from BBVA.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, November 16th. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to Market Foolery. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Chris Hill with me today. |
| 0:07.0 | Mr. Bill Barker. |
| 0:08.0 | Good to see you. |
| 0:09.0 | Good to be here. |
| 0:10.0 | We have deals in the banking industry, we've got deals in home improvement, but for the second |
| 0:17.4 | Monday in a row we have promising news on the vaccine front. Last week it was Pfizer. Today it is Moderna. Phase three study |
| 0:26.2 | results showing that Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine is effective at a rate of |
| 0:30.4 | 94.5% shares of Moderna, not surprisingly, up 8% and hitting a new high today. |
| 0:38.0 | Yeah, just queue up the discussion from last Monday about this and we can sub in that everything |
| 0:48.2 | from the Moderna site is a little bit better even than the Pfizer news that is the 94.5% is in a sense |
| 0:59.8 | very very accurate down to the decimal point and Pfizer only went as far as you know |
| 1:07.4 | somewhere above 90 percent so 94.5 sounds a little bit better more |
| 1:11.6 | importantly is the storage temperature that it appears |
| 1:16.0 | that Moderna can be transported and maintained, which is not at the extremely low, close to zero Kelvin temperatures that I think the Pfizer requires. |
| 1:29.0 | Yeah, that was interesting to see last week in the wake of the initial news it was like oh my goodness |
| 1:34.8 | the you know the efficacy rate is so great for Pfizer then you start getting into the |
| 1:38.9 | nitty gritty and you're like wait how low is the temperature that this needs to be stored at and |
| 1:44.1 | how is that going to work and CEO FedEx had to come out and talk about the |
| 1:49.2 | cold storage facilities they have around the country so as you said with Moderna the storage |
| 1:56.3 | much more much more widely available not requiring sort of special deep cold units like FedEx has. |
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