I cannot underscore enough the originality of what was being accomplished yesterday, francine. I was sitting there with michael mckee, and his press conference question was superb. They are all dealing with what to do with inflation at no aggregate demand. It is a fascinating time. Francine we will have plenty more on that, but now lets get to first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika President Trump has slapped down some of his top health officials. He contradicted them at a news conference, saying that a Coronavirus Vaccine could be distribute it widely to the public by as early as next month. Cdc director Robert Redfield told congress that the vaccine would be distributed in the second and Third Quarter of next year. The president called those comments a mistake. At least one person was killed and hundreds were rescued after Hurricane Sally came ashore near the floridaalabama line. Heavy rain swamped pensacola, florida, and other cities in the region. Sally is now a
People disappear from westminster and it is quiet. You have been reading about the problems, and that is something on the social scene i suppose, and the controversy over which songs should end the problems, a musical event that happens every year. Of course it is much scaledback. I am preoccupied by the latest comings and goings. Tom we have Economic Data on thursday, jobless claims. What is the trend of the economy that you see . Right now in america aims to be almost a two art economy, very separate. A twopart economy, very separate. Anna we are talking this morning about the kshaped recovery. Going to john olsens great piece this moaning about how tech stocks do well, value stocks, other left behind sectors not doing as well. Even as we look at the u. S. Right now. Also really dominating in the news overnight. Anna a recovery, kitd juckes writing on that as well. An unusual august. For our briefing with first word news, there is ritika gupta. Ritika President Trump and speakers at
Tomorrow, but the one that really matters will be an 8 30 in 3. 5 hours time in washington, the jobless claims number to show a labor economy in america that really borders on depression. Lotcine we will talk a about the modeling out there and we will look at modeling in europe. Lets get to first word news in new york city with viviana hurtado. Viviana we begin with china, accusing the u. S. Of trying to shift the blame for its own coronavirus outbreak. Beijing responding today to the bloomberg report, china concealed the extent of the problem. Bloomberg has learned the u. S. To community concluded beijing under reported both total cases and deaths. China calling that moral slander. The pentagon is asked to provide as many as 100,000 body bags for potential civilian use. Bloomberg has used the military as has learned that the military has about has learned that the military has about half of that on hand. And more leverage will allow a absorption of lack of liquidity for treasuries, pl
Europe and why debts keep rising so much in spain and in italy and what can be done. Tom we have an important interview in the next hour on the virus. We will go to mount sinai for that. I am next to the outside i manhattan hospital in new york. I will tell you, it is an extra ordinary monday. I know you see in in london, we see it in new york, with quiet streets and politicians really needing to adapt. My major message in this hour is the complete readjustment and struggle that global wall street is having trying to gauge this contraction. I love what bruce kasman said at jp morgan. He looks back and harkens back to the contractions that we saw before world war ii. Francine i think we had an update on friday from goldman sachs, j. P. Morgan on the Second Quarter gbp just gdp in the u. S. , and the numbers are nothing like we have ever seen before. So i know we have a full round of update just on the lockdown, different in new york than it is in london. Boris johnson saying that people
The economy in the next 3, 6, 18 months. Tom it has been an extraordinary recharging of global recession. Germany looking at recession calls back to 2009, really no surprise there. But it has been the additive facts that we have seen over the weekend measuring global slowdown. There is no place you see it more than thiss morning, not only in the price decline of oil, but specifically brent has had worldwide crude has an extremely difficult six hours. Francine yeah, we also have to look at currencies, dollar had quite a move, and dollar of course is now benefiting, or at least moving on the back of the Credit Rating downgrade from other countries. We look at pound, a lot a lot of volatility there. Thats get to first word news in new york city with viviana hurtado. Viviana President Donald Trump wants the public to continue practicing social distancing until at least the end of april and not by easter come as he previously suggested. Dr. Anthony fauci telling cnn if efforts to mitigate t