Yellen likely choice for US Treasury, Peru’s century bonds, Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine
FT News Briefing
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🗓️ 24 November 2020
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US president-elect Joe Biden is poised to choose former Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen as his Treasury secretary, Peru joins a select group of countries that has issued century bonds, and the number of US air travellers has ticked up ahead of US Thanksgiving. Plus, the FT’s Donato Paolo Mancini explains how the vaccine produced by Oxford University and AstraZeneca will play into the larger fight against the pandemic.
Joe Biden poised to pick Janet Yellen as Treasury secretary
https://www.ft.com/content/1351b4db-9181-4afe-875f-acf9d5a6799a
Peru joins elite club of nations selling century bonds
https://www.ft.com/content/2676b8b3-dcf7-4200-9031-cc0f4f6a504e?shareType=nongift
US air travel rises despite Thanksgiving pandemic warnings
https://www.ft.com/content/ec2de8b7-30e9-403c-9016-ddb41796c9e8
Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine results raise hopes for Covid fight
https://www.ft.com/content/2da97a56-23df-4345-9157-6dc8ec322c69
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning from the Financial Times. |
| 0:02.0 | Today is Tuesday, November 24th. |
| 0:04.0 | This is your FT news briefing. |
| 0:09.0 | Joe Biden is saving a seat in his administration |
| 0:11.0 | for a former Federal Reserve chair. |
| 0:13.6 | Peru is thinking way ahead as it issues its latest bonds, and despite a warning from a federal |
| 0:18.6 | agency, a lot of Americans are still getting on airplanes. |
| 0:22.0 | Plus, we've now received results from a third successful coronavirus vaccine trial. |
| 0:27.0 | So how will the latest development play into the larger fight against the pandemic? |
| 0:31.0 | We'll take a look. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day. |
| 0:40.0 | President-elect Joe Biden's been putting together his cabinet and for the position of U.S. Treasury Secretary, it looks like he's going to pick a familiar face, the former chair of the Federal Reserve Janet Yellen. |
| 0:51.0 | Yellen served first as Vice Chair from 2010 to 2014. Then former |
| 0:56.0 | President Barack Obama nominated Yellen to chair when she became the first |
| 0:59.6 | woman to hold the position. If she's confirmed by the Senate, she'll become the first woman to serve |
| 1:04.4 | as Treasury Secretary. So what does her potential appointment mean for the U.S. economy? |
| 1:09.2 | I've got James Pleye here. He covers the Fed for the F.T. James Yellen had most of her Fed experience when Biden was Vice President and part of that was digging the U.S. economy out of the Great Recession. |
| 1:20.0 | Tell us about how Yellen might approach the economy during this pandemic hit, tough time. |
| 1:26.0 | Well, so I think Janet Yellen during her time at the Fed and also since she left the Fed seems to be very much on board with the idea of |
| 1:37.2 | additional fiscal stimulus for the economy, of additional monetary stimulus. |
| 1:43.0 | She is very much a fan that the U.S. should use its economic powers and its economic levers to nudge the economy along. |
| 1:52.0 | And I think that that's going to be her position. I mean one of the interesting |
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