Poisoning. Lets get to the first word news with leighann gerrans. Shows joe a new poll biden has a doubledigit lead over President Trump. Ae democratic nominee has 5242 advantage. Meanwhile, the survey also says in theden has a 6 lead battleground state wisconsin. In germany, chancellor Angela Merkel is now ready to link the nord stream 2 gas pipeline the poisoning of a russian dissident. Merkel, whoift for said that the russian backed pipeline should be completed and remains a separate issue. The kremlin has said it sees no issue that germany will block nordstrom. Moscow has denied any involvement in the poisoning. Now in hong kong, protests have resumed after weeks of calm. Police arrested hundreds of people. Among other things, demonstrators were protesting the decision to delay Legislative Council relaxants for a year Council Elections for a year because of coronavirus. India has surpassed brazil as the second worst hit country. India reported more than 19,000 cases more than 90,00
To break trump has yet the stimulus long gem. Softbank backs the virus handed record losses in may at a drop of the value, some may change with earnings later. Lets get a quick check of how the markets are trading. We are seeing u. S. Futures under a little bit of pressure, down 1 10 of 1 . We have President Trumps executive actions on stimulus measures boosting sentiment. That weighed in indices. The s p 500 saw the highest close in sixmonth in the longest winning streak since 2017. Aska futures at the moment japan comes back from mountain day holiday. I mentioned softbank earnings coming back later. The japanese yen Holding Around the weakest in more than two weeks. The bloomberg dollar index unchanged at the moment. This after it touched a oneweek high. Watch out for some data this morning. We are getting south koreas 10 day trade data. We are getting japan numbers, not to mention singapores final gdp numbers. Crude headed towards 42 a barrel after gaining the most in a week after s
Believe i was. Feeling that way why d did. You see it now. International world news age q here in moscow my name is kevin know it here with this latest round up for you this hour starting with this news then a secret source for the notorious private Intelligence Report that failed end of the day to link donald trump to russian collusion back in 2016 has been revealed and it turns out its a u. S. Resident rather than a supposed russia based source so if he goes down off explains next lot of the dossier is seem to rely on shots between drinking buddies. It was a dossier that some prophesies would spell doom for donald trump as president and as a human being with any shred of decency the document penned by Jonathan Steele spread like wildfire across the media spilling way beyond the u. S. Borders the dossier the dossier that controversial document it alleges overt knowing collusion while unconfirmed accusations was. To cool the foil salacious would be an understatement the claim that trum
Deviations. It is an historic surge in gold. Francine it certainly is, at we have been spending a lot of time on that and we will spend more time on gold. Lets get to first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika good morning. The fight over the chinese consulate in houston shows that hardliners now have the upper hand in the Trump Administration. President trump has allowed a small group of advisors led by Michael Pompeo to push u. S. Policy toward its most antagonistic in decades. U. S. Officials say china has a history of espionage and intellectual property theft. The Trump Administration and Senate Republicans are considering a shortterm extension of extra unemployment benefits. It is unlikely the white house and lawmakers will agree on a broader stimulus deal before the benefits expire. Millions of americans receive supplemental payments that were included in the last laurent virus package. Way for paving the soaring stock to join the s p 500 index. The electric carmaker reported thir
English premier league along with a spat with the u. K. , all reports prius president xi jinping could close the u. S. Consulate in showing do. Tension and political Mitch Mcconnell good unveil a gop plan opening up discussions with immigrants. Cost cuts assifies it sees a considerable slump in economic output. Confirms its diagnostics unit. Units from unilever coming from across the wire. What are you seeing . Anna we got the numbers from unilever. Lets get to the story in london. Unilever with underlying sales, down. 3 , but better than the market anticipated. The estimate was for a drop. 3. 89 . That is a good number for the underlying sales story. They were telling us about what they plan for their tea business. They talked about moving it on in some way. Now with a that will hold they will hold on to some of it. They are retaining the tea businesses in india and indonesia and interest in the ready to drink tea joint ventures they have, but they are telling us the operations they w