Welcome to the program. Leaders of the worlds 20 wealthiest nations have pledged to quote, spare no effort in ensuring that all countries have access to covert 19 vaccines. Comments came at the end of a virtual g. 20 meeting hosted by saudi arabia. The summit was dominated by the pen demick, amid concerns for countries will be left behind as wealthier nations reserve, nearly all of the expected supply of the most promising vaccine candidates. G. 20 leaders also reiterated a commitment to extend debt relief for developing countries until at least 2021 as many governments risk default due to the economic shock caused by the virus. Lets get more now from alexander phenomenon our Brussels Bureau chief. Shes been following the summit for us on xander. Welcome. When g. 20 leaders pledge affordable and equitable access to covert vaccines. What exactly does that mean . Well, in theory, a death means that everyone should have access to achieve that. Seeing whether you live in berlin, in brussel
Strongso getting some data coming through and it comes to pending home sales. The month on month number blowing past expectations. We do better on a month by month basis of 8. 8 . That was well above expectations. That takes the nonseasonally adjusted year on year number two 20. 5 . This is a market that has come back in a really big way. Alix and continues to stay strong, like auto sales, undermining that fall off a cliff scenario. ,ast night, the highlights president trump, democratic nominee joe biden, which a debate, but turned out to be a boxing match. Everyone knows hes a liar. Pres. Trump you are the liar. You graduated last in your class. Mr. Biden you are the worst president america has ever had. Pres. Trump when needed, i wear masks. I dont wear masks like him. He could be speaking to hundred feet away from you and he shows up with the biggest mask ive ever seen. What is the Trump Health Care plan . Pres. Trump first of all, i guess i am debating you, not him, but thats ok. I
Here are your top headlines from the bloomberg terminal. The fed flags the risks. Global stocks slide. U. S. Central bank minutes say the virus will weigh heavily on Economic Activity. Also betes will released later on today. The u. S. Suspends its extradition treaty with hong kong. Beijing and washington are also set to play in resumption of trade talks after last weeks flop. The eu rejects the results of the belarusian election. The block falls short of calling for a fresh bowl even as eight individual members back that kind of mood. Move. Lets take a look at futures. We are seeing red across the board in terms of european futures. More than 1 drops on the euro stock. Ftse very widely traded. Dax futures in frankfurt. Acrossseeing red arrows u. S. Futures as well. Still looking at drops their. 0. 5 on s p, dow jones, and nasdaq. Anna . Anna we see the European Equity market having to catch up a little bit. Lets get to breaking news in london. Too late is where they operate. Numbers c
Strong gains we saw yesterday bounce up 2 for the benchmark even higher for some of the major markets like france, germany and italy. All 2 1 2 to 3 the range. Wall street is shot for the 4th of july holiday. Lacking a little more direction, continuing to see a spike in virus cases. We traveled a long way good news on the addition of new jobs to the economy again, and also news around viruses, vaccines to defeat the virus so the markets at this stage just a little bit more nervous around some of the negative news what weve got on those individual boards, this is how it looks for the german stock market, about a 10th of a percent plus thats as good as it gets on the optimism youre seeing on these boards we are down 6 10 on spanish stocks 3 10 on italy and 12 in the u. K. And france it is a reversal in the strong gains we witnessed in the thursday session the sectors, lets xi how its moving about the top has been technology. Retail is positive construction material, utilities, travel, le
Disturbing and said it could top 100,000 cases per day. And we are preparing to close the books on what has been a rough first half of the year its included a painful, record breaking sell off followed by a fast, record setting climb back up stocks set therefore for their best quarter in decades. 59 minutes left of the session morgan, we are up a full percent on the s p 500 yeah, were watching that last day of the quarter, last day of the first day my goodness. Coming up, as we wrap up the first half of the year, were going to focus on why not work from home. Twilio stocks up in 2020 well speak with the ceo about the demand for his companys Cloud Services during the pandemic mike is tracking the Market Action kayla has the highlights from fed chair powell and secretary mnuchins testimony on capitol hill and joining us to look ahead to the second half of the year is lori but mike, lets start off with you and a look at the market this is a good illustration of the old say a iing dont sho