developing stroir out of china the trump administration is getting ready to add china's top chip maker, smicnd offshore oil and gas producer to a black list of alleged chinese military companies to limit their access to u.s. investor and escalate white house tensions with beijing just weeks before the biden administration takes over. seeing how this news all played out in asia overnight, let's take a check here we are. shanghai composite down by half a percent. japanese nikkei had a strong november as well slightly lower by 1%. turning our attention to europe, 2.5 hours left in trade there and you can see a mixed rate but germany and france, germany and the uk are trading in positive territory up just fractionally on the day >>> now to this morning's top corporate stories including promising news on the vaccine front. frank holland is here with the details. frank, good morning. >> thanks a lot, seema set to approve the covid vaccine within days they say the first injections there could come as soon as next week. they have an advisory meeting scheduled for next thursday and the shipments shor

lower after the trump administration threatens to blacklist more chinese firms, sending shares in smic and cnooc sharply lower. >> shares in european oil majors sink as opec meets today where ministers are expect today keep a lid on output with global demand under continued pandemic pressure >> s&p global has reportedly put $44 billion on the table to buy london-based ihs markets and tie up the data giants and mark the largest deal of the year >> shares jump after the german chip maker confirms advance take over talks with taiwan's globwas it could create a leader in the global semiconductor space >> well, good morning, everybody. welcome to street signs and happy monday it is the start of a new trading week, a week of new possibilities. but before we get into the show, i just want to take you to our main story that's hit overnight, and that is to do with china so, beijing has said that it hopes the u.s. will not build barriers to cooperation. that was in response to a report that the trump administration is preparing to blacklist top chinese chip maker smic and oil major chinook. wash

smic set up a black independent party. as they began to register black voters, white landowners evicted 75 families. to keep evictees from leaving the county, snik resurrected tent city. some residents of tent city lived there for more than 2 1/2 years. still today there is nothing on the landscape to show the snic or the community foot soldiers were even there. >> jo, thank you very much. very powerful presentation, very personal history. gina, we're going to go to you next, please. take it away. >> thank you, al. and, jo, i want to say thank you for sharing your story there. it's those kinds of stories, those oral histories, that really make this relevant and real for us. to tell these stories brings forward the cultural outreach that's so necessary for us to have and connect with. in fact, that's part of the mission of the national parks service, to preserve and protect the natural and historical, but also the cultural values of places like lans county in the summary to the montgomery trail. that actually was the underp

tensions reuters reporting that the trump administration is getting ready to add china's chip maker smicnd its national offshore oil and gas producer cnooc to a blacklist chinese military companies. eunice yoon joins us live in beijing. is it me or you, you've been around i guess it's been me that hasn't seen you good morning >> that's right. you're on vacation so you mentioned cnooc it said it still has not received official notice from the u.s. but the stock price plummeted in hong kong any way. that's because cnooc has a lot of u.s. exposure, u.s. investors, uses american technology, partners with global players like exxonmobil and the belief here is that cnooc is on this list because it has been doing controversial drilling in the south china sea. so smic, the largest chip maker in china also potentially on this list but that had been flagged earlier in the year. so the company had reiterated that it does not have any ties with the chinese military. the chinese foreign ministry, though, did respond and said that the u.s. should not create barriers or obstacles for future cooperation