Twitter saying that many of those votes are many of those comments are misleading. We continue to feel, the senator and i, we continue to feel very good about how things stand. We have no doubt that when the count is finished, senator harris and i will be declared the winners. I asked everyone to stay calm. The process is working. The count is being completed. We will know very soon. Be following the results, live reports from pennsylvania, where we are just learning that the Truck Campaign is filing a lawsuit as votes are being counted there. Markets are extending the biggest rally since april as investors rushed back into tech. The fed is keeping results near zero. Cooper is out with ubereats is still a bright spot for cooper as the pandemic continues on. Abigail doolittle is following the rally as this election remains uncertain. It is amazing that we do not know who the president of the United States is and we are in the middle of the best week for stocks going back to april. If we
Week wherever books are sold and watch for many of the authors in the near future on book tv on cspan2. History and biography is sponsored bywells fargo. [music] welcome everyone, everywhere here with Madeleine Albright, 64th secretary of state and here to talk about her new book Madeleine Albright hell and other destinationsand i just finished reading it and i look forward to having a conversation with Madeleine Albright about it. Welcome to our broadcast today. Great to be with you david, i enjoyed talking with you anytime. I am at the Jefferson Building in the library of congress, madeleine is at her home in the washington area. We had a longstanding relationship because madeleine and i were young staffers in the white house under president carter and i followed her career ever since then with great admiration so madeleine, this is her seventh book since you left as secretary of state so did you ever imagine when you finished as secretary of state first woman to ever serve as secret
1 ,s p up by nine tens of tech leading the charge. European markets underperforming but the ftse 100 pushing on gains over the last hour. Most european markets gained early than flatlining into the afternoon. We are seeing a bit of a return to the dollar this afternoon, still trading at the 118. 119 earlier on and security markets continue to be in focus as the ecb suggests there may be rates that could be cut further. Lets start off our conversation on the u. K. Labor market which took a turn for the worse in july. Total job losses climbed to nearly 700,000 since the start of the pandemic. Tois considering plans support jobs as per the government cost Furlough Program ending next month. Businesses need support which is why many of the intervention we have put in place lasts the last through the next year. I have not hesitated to act and create effective ways to support jobs and employment and we will continue to do so. From brusselsg us is Vincent Juvyns from jp morgan. Sunak may be s
Market. Three year and 10 year bond options coming in superstrong. Watch how that winds up performing. Time now for todays top market moving news from our new york team and washington team. We want to begin with economic the u. K. Economy shrinking on the 6 in march. Predicting what could be its deepest contraction in more than three centuries. Bloombergs Michael Mckee has more. Michael ask not for whom the bell tolls. It is the u. K. This time. Just one week under lockdown was still enough for a 2 contraction during the first quarter. As you mentioned, a 6 contraction during the month of march. Britain plunging into what may be its worst depression or recession, at least, since 300 years ago. Three centuries, according to those who have been figuring out. Tourism fell by 46 , air transport down 44 . Engine ofpending, the the economy, down 1. 7 in the first quarter, the largest drop since the financial crisis. We got data from the British Retail Consortium saying total sales down 19. 1
I do want to interrupt your lunch, so feel free to keep eating, but as promised we are going to have a really good, important discussion that will help to draw on what we heard this morning and build by thinking a little bit about how to reset a strategic frame to support Good Governance. Think about all the things we heard this morning about some of the problems, some of the challenges that need to be addressed in fragile states. Governing institutions need to become more accountable. We have to work on ways to build inclusiveness, tackle the problem of marginalization and exclusion, figure out how to empower youth to take leadership roles. The importance of enabling Civil Society to be an important part of cementing a stronger Space Society relationship. These are all dimensions of governance in one way or another, and this is one of the central challenges of transforming fragile states to be more resilient. So how do we do that from the perspective of the United States . How do rese