The cash trade less than one hour a day away. Stocks push higher as u. S. Coronavirus hospitalizations dropped, even as global cases top 20 million. Fresh stimulus remains elusive though, as President Trump looks to cut the Capital Gains tax. The earnings season continues, with numbers from heavy hitters, like softbank and prudential. Plus, we will speak with several ceos. Plus, ready and able, the bank of england. One member tells the times the bank will step up their q. Week q. E. Am their anna, what are you seeing . Anna good to see you. It had beenw where anticipated, 3. 9 . Threemonth rate, of course come with expectation that we would end the threemonth period to the end of june at 4. 2 . This is better than what had been anticipated, but remember, there is a challenge in terms of being able to reflect the unemployment reality on the ground. This number has been protected from rising to a large degree, for better or worse, and that means we still may be seeing a surge in unemploy
The market moving news from around the world. Joining us on the phone from hong kong is karen lee, from london, emma chandra, and here in new york is michael mckee. First we want to kick it off and hong kong come over the chief executive carrie lam spoke at a briefing following 12 straight weekends of protests in the city. Lam the government is confident we can handle a months long disturbance. I think it is a common goal and hong kong to handle this by ourselves. Alix bloombergs karen lee has the latest. Where are we at . Carrie lam speaking publicly after another weekend of violence, saying they can handle unrest without assistance from chinese forces, and that she still wants to hold talks with protesters. This comes after beijing issued its most direct warning yet, saying in a commentary on state media that the government has the Legal Authority to halt what it said had become a revolution, even though analysts still say such a move remains a last resort. There are calls now for an