Better than it was a month ago. Tom it is all the news that is out there right now. You see a little bit of a lift in the markets. We will get to the data check, but what is extraordinary right now is this historic moment for hong kong. And lord patton with us in 30 minutes, which is a great honor. Now lets get straight to bloomberg first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika as you were mentioning, lawmakers in china have defied a threat by President Trump, approving a proposal for sweeping National Security legislation aimed at hong kong. The micros the advocates say the measures will curb freedom in the city, and this came a day lead this could President Trump into imposing sanctions on china. Been more than 100,000 deaths in the u. S. From coronavirus. That is three months since the first death announced on february 29 in the United States. According to the institute of Directors Think tank. Wagestly paving 80 of for jobs. The government wants to change it so that co
Tom wti is leading down, no question, francine, but i would look at the remarkable decline of floating oil, global oil, brent crude, well under 20 a barrel now. For it to sustain under 20, a splint to me how some of these nations move forward. You were talking in the last hour with the tourist rector of greece. I dont know if oil is good or bad for the tourist director of greece, but 20 brent crude does not get it done for a lot of other people. Francine i mean, i think the price of oil is secondary. If you are the greek minister for tourism, he was very careful because he wanted to speak to other nations to see if it was ok. But do you issue a Health Passport . How do you do with people congregating in lobbies . A thirdce, it employs of their population. Now to bloomberg first word news with viviana hurtado. Viviana a new strategy to expand coronavirus testing from the white house, that is our beginning on first word. States receiving new guidance on how to build testing capacity, les
[bellringing] tom the perspective here as in so many different nations is the dead of the hospital workers. For the nhs, over 90 people have died during this pandemic. In the united kingdom, how is the view, the perspective of the nhs changed . Silence the minute of where we saw boris johnson, the leader of the opposition, and the city grounding to a halt for one minute across the country to commemorate the 100 people who have died these are have died. These are key workers, people from transport, not only nhs. Many times over, ministers were asked about the number of key workers who had died and very few knew what that number was, so this follows a pretty explosive local tv network speaking to one of the sons of the key worker that died from the nhs, saying we really need an apology. This was welcome to unite the nation at a difficult time for the government to answer questions. Tom the symbolism we see as a general pandemic update, there is lots of good news. I know viviana will have
Market is positive by 0. 2 percent on the s p 500. Hours away from chairman powell and the News Conference. Tom it is a different it is changed outlook to the press conference that it was 48 hours boko ago. Jon it is not seven, it is six. It is not seven. The bad news, it is 6 inflation in the u. K. Lisa this is a positive but how much of a positive. The key distinction is the core measure came in much more than expected so stripping out food and energy, how much will we be talking about the difference between core and what you feel when you go to the store . Tom we are there when we are slicing and dicey like David Rosenberg. What you do with inflation and disinflation but the Central Banks torah centralbank story with me jon the highs going into this bad decision, crude we are right their own crude so the headline versus core conversation, how do they navigate that in the News Conference . Lisa at a certain point, oil feeds into that, the question is how much is this driven by demand
At whatstake a look going on in to those brexit talks. The pound is up by. 2 . Stronger dollar story throughout the day and dollaryen is up to. 6 . 58 basis points. Thats really steep. Time for the morning brief. Ahead. A look at the week today theresa may is scheduled to meet with Jeanclaude Juncker. Then social democrats hold their convention. Congress has to act to avoid a Government Shutdown and we are also going to get on friday u. S. Jobs numbers. Big week ahead. Topics tax, u. K. , cvs buying aetna. The talk on the talk shows was all about taxes. Had towhat the senators say. When you heard the president say we are very close to the finish line you know he has wanted a 15 right from the beginning. Is parted to a 20 rate of the discussion. The house as a 20 right now. We are happy with both of those numbers. If something small happens in conference that gets us across the finish line we will look at it on a casebycase basis. Business tax all the way down from 35 to 20. It could be