They call the process excruciating. Good morning, everyone. Happy friday. We have made it to friday. It has been quite a week. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. The markets are focused on brexit, oil because of opec, and focus on u. S. Stimulus in the u. S. Stocks are holding gains, key data of course out of the u. S. , it is the u. S. Labor market. It is going to give us an indication of whether the economy needs support or not, and Oil Extending Gains after ninemonth high after this opecplus deal. I am looking at the dollar, treasuries pretty much nudging higher. A lot ofve a prett volatility because of brexit do we have a deal, do we not have a deal, have they walked out . It has been pretty unclear so far, talking about lastminute ships come up the british saying it is because of eu demands at the last moment, but it seems like it could be up in the air. Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news. Here is leighann gerrans. Hi, leighann. Leig
At the same time, we generated more capital through earnings. Thats why are ratio is 12. 5 . Talk to me about the merging of the two units. What is the reasoning behind that . The Investment Bank merger is something weve been discussing for months. Even my predecessor, it was already a topic. 2015, clearlyn the two had to be separated. We had to restructure the trading business. Are at a stage or we can put them back together again. Most of our competitors have it anyway. This is not a cost exercise. There will be some cost benefits. Its really about having one overriding business to have one Investment Bank globally, one equities business. A Global Trading solution business, which build on our success. It serves our equity, fixed income, transactional business for the private bank and institutional business. How difficult was it to do this in the middle of the pandemic . Thomas it was relatively good. You get used to resume calls. Zoom calls. We had many internal calls to get this lin
The cash trade is an hour away. Lets get your top headlines for you off of the bloomberg terminal. Operation work speed. President is organizing a Manhattan Project file effort to fasttrack a coronavirus machine. Big pharma will work with washington and the military to develop it by years end. Lasting damage. Jerome powell voices concerns about the longterm fallout from the outbreak. Attention turns today to Christine Lagarde as economists expect the eurozone economy to pump the most since the Second World War. Grenada cuts. Norway joins opec in slashing oil output. We will see shortly what the ceo , after exxon mobil throws its dividend for the first time in 13 years. Just under an hour away now from the start of cash equity trading across europe. Lets take a look at futures here. We have gains on the euro stock. In bluechip benchmark index europe of almost 1 . Dax futures are up more than 1 this morning as ftse futures rise about three quarters of 1 . Anna . 6 anna lets talk about br
with a third missing more than a month of teaching, according to a new report. housing charity shelter blamed what it described as total inaction from the government for the numbers of young people in traumatic living arrangements. the government says it increased local housing allowance significantly during the pandemic, and is delivering more affordable homes. here s our social affairs correspondent, michael buchanan. it s barely 6:30am, and isaiah is heading to his childminder. ..while his brother coby begins the journey to school. single mum lily is heading to work as a nurse, hence the early start. we used to walk to school every single day from our old house. but that all changed when they were made homeless in september, after the landlord sold the property. now the commute can take up to 45 minutes. if i could get us housed near his school, that s my main goal. this is where they re currently living, all three sharing a one bed flat. it s temporary accommodation.