Treatment for covid19. He removed his mask before giving a thumbs up to the cameras. Global stocks see modest gains. His return comes as the cdc says coronavirus can spread indoors, in the air, beyond six feet. 34 u. S. States see more virus cases than a month ago. And the chicago feds Charlie Evans tells bloomberg he would welcome 2. 5 inflation. Jay powell and Christine Lagarde speak today. Annmarie good morning. Just gone 6 00 a. M. In the city of london. There is a lot to really digest with what happened overnight in d. C. The president of the United States spent 72 hours at walter reed hospital. He returned to the white house, a quite dramatic return. He walked up to the balcony of the white house, removed his mask, flashed a thumbs up, and saluting to the cameras. It showed a defiance of the virus, to Public Health measures. He is eager, you sell what he said at the top of the hour, to project strength in the face of the virus, but it has killed more than 200,000 americans. Be th
Comments out of theboe. You can see how the safety trade is not playing out with dollaryen higher and a mild risk off move after the Missile Launch it now back onto the dollar story. Gold going nowhere. Jonathan potential terrorism in the u. K. , several people injured in an explosion on a subway train in london. Police said they were treating it as terrorism on a number of people were injured, suffering facial burns and some were hurt in a stampede, according to the press association. No word of the whereabouts of the perpetrator. Station inen subway london was cordoned off as police investigated and north korea is another manchild launch Missile Launch in japan after the United Nations approved harsher sanctions against the regime while Rex Tillerson says these continued provocations deep in the north korean diplomatic and economic isolation. Joined by our chief agent economics correspondents. Editor forcutive international government. Walk three details as they come through in londo
At 10 00 a. M. , us home sales for the month of april. 2 00 p. M. The fed releases the book ahead of jobs friday and 3 00 President Trump welcomes the Prime Minister of vietnam to the white house with trade on the agenda. Jonathan it has been a choppy session for sterling. A projection in the times shows Theresa Mays Conservative Party may miss winning a can a conservative party and face a Hung Parliament. Study based on a new model and showed her Party Falling short of the majority by 16 seats. Joining us from london is an morass thomas. Great to have you with us on the program. Break down the new study and the methodology and whether we should take this with a huge dose of salt. In britain has been in crisis. They have the brexit referendum in the last general election result. This study seeks to address some underlying problems in pulling. You can win a majority getting a majority of the popular vote so really elections are won and lost on 100 key constituencies. This poll tries to
Off oure coming back lows. This is pretty perplexing but interesting to see what the causes are. The dow is down only. 01 of 1 . A have been down as much as 150 points. We are down by money five points. The s p 500 is down point two and the nasdaq is down the most by point five of 1 . This is coming after the fallout from the jobs report that we saw earlier today. Monthly jobs was the worst in september of 2010 and we see that impact here. Were still on track to break that. We will take a look at what is happening with the s p sectors. The 10 sectors right here. We can see the come back with the green versus the red. At one point we had seen utilities and materials in the green. Utilities are up id nearly 2 ,. 7 percent. Financials still the biggest laggards, down by 1. 3 followed by consumer discretionary. Lets take a look at where those stand. The aspect for interestrates going higher later on is having impact on bank stocks. Bank of america coming downloader at 3 . Citigroup similar
Welcome to countdown. I am mark barton. I am anna edwards. I am manus cranny. We will start with strong words on russia. That annual speech is usually a platform for major policy statements and ceremonial trappings, cameron did not disappoint. He condemned Vladimir Putins actions in ukraine and sanctions he said were not only right but in the uks economic interest. Russias actions oppose a grave danger to the rest of europe. Here in this building, with its history shaped by the blitz, we should not be reminded of the coincidence of turning a blind eye within countries in europe believe smaller countries. Chilcote joins us. Are there more sanctions to come . There may be. We will find out on monday. We heard from Angela Merkel and she is the first to suggest that sanctions should be expanded so we heard from the americas yesterday. We heard the british Prime Minister say if russia does not change its actions, there must be more action to take a listen. Has warned we are on the brink of