London. Gold is on the move. I also wanted to show you lvmh. It is down quite significantly investors inted disappointing investors with earnings. The picture is that stocks and u. S. Futures are pushing higher today. Cooling somewhat but it did touch 2000 late yesterday. Dropped after the french luxury conglomerate reports earnings that missed analyst expectations because of the lockdown. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Here is leighann gerrans. Good morning. Senate republicans have unveiled a 1 trillion plan to bolster the economy. The package, announced by mitch mcconnell, includes an extension to Unemployment Benefits but at lower levels. It includes cash handouts of protection from virus lawsuits. We have one foot in the pandemic and one foot in the recovery. The American People need more help. They need it to be comprehensive and carefully tailored to this crossroads. That is what this Senate Majority has assembled. Meanwhile, nancy pelosi delivered a harsh as
Cash trade is less than an hour away. Here are your top headlines. Republicans unveil a 1 trillion aid package to bolster the u. S. Economy. More direct payments to americans and Liability Protection for businesses. Keeping the borders close. Bloomberg learns the eu is set barriers to travelers outside the block amid rising virus infection rates in spain and germany. Plus, better than bad expectations. Michelin reports operating profit at the highend of estimates despite swinging to a net loss. The delivery here was one of the big delivery hero is one of the big winners. Dont miss our interviews in this program today. We are seeing the ecb, breaking news. The ecb asking european banks to freeze dividends. You can always get the latest ecb headlines on your terminal. Type ecb go for a great dashboard. The ecb is saying it wants european banks to freeze dividends for the rest of 2020. The remaining four months of the is saying ite ecb least not pay at dividends until january 2021. There
About the impact later on in the show. Time now for bloomberg time now to dig a look at all the news you need to know, from d. C. To new york. We are joined by bloombergs michael mckee, taking a look at all of the Market Action and economic action out of europe. It was a tough day for services pmis. Michael absolutely, and the charts tell the stories. These were the worst numbers ever for france, germany, and the eurozone, showing the Service Industries worsen manufacturing, and in part due to a quirk in the data. The market, we get pmis at 9 45 this morning. The same sort of data are expected. We also get the Bloomberg Consumer comfort index, the most highfrequency Consumer Confidence data. That has been moved up two days. The crashing of the european economies has revived talk, or pushed, shall we say, talk of stimulus higher up the agenda. German chancellor Angela Merkel has already decided that she is going to establish a Stimulus Program to help revive the economy, and she has put
Sectors expanded use of technology, its just not ready primetime. During this hearing, well private sectors development, use and sale of technology as well as its partnerships with Government Entities, using this technology. We learned from our first may 22 of 2019 that he use of facial Recognition Technology can severely impact American Civil Rights and liberties, including the right to privacy. Protection and equal under the law. We learned during our second federal, n june 4 how state and local Government Entities use this technology on wide scale. Yet provide very little why itsncy on how and being used or on security measures to protect sensitive data. Despite these concerns, we see facial Recognition Technology and more in our everyday lives. Used in ology is being schools, grocery stores, irports, malls, theme parks, stadiums and on our phones, social media platforms, door and even in ootage hiring decisions and its used by Law Enforcement. This technology is completely unregula
F facial Recognition Technology. They testified before the House Oversight and reform committee. Working on e is legislation to address the emerging technology. Good morning, everyone, and is out objection the chair authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. Would now like to recognize myself to give an opening statement. Today the committee is holding on a critical ng issue. Facial recognition tech. Its clear that despite the sectors expanded use of technology, its just not ready primetime. During this hearing, well private sectors development, use and sale of technology as well as its partnerships with Government Entities, using this technology. We learned from our first may 22 of 2019 that he use of facial Recognition Technology can severely impact American Civil Rights and liberties, including the right to privacy. Protection and equal under the law. We learned during our second federal, n june 4 how state and local Government Entities use this technology on wide