Make up your job. Made for mines. Joe biden introduces his economic team. The president elect says, help is on the way as he nominates janet yellen delete the u. S. Treasury. So what do the pics tell us about bidens approach . Also coming up, the e. U. Has a flashy new campaign for its cloud infrastructure. But can guy x. Live up to the hype in the tech world, dominated by the u. S. And china . And say good bye bye to breaks your next house could be coming out of a different places. Do you do your business and robots in berlin . Welcome to the program. U. S. President elect joe biden has set out the top team he hopes will help guide the u. S. Economy through the economic recovery, saying he chosen a tested and experienced group of advisors. Among them is janet yellen, who becomes the 1st woman to hold the post of treasury secretary accepting the nomination. The former Federal Reserve chair painted a gloomy picture of the pandemics effect on the u. S. Law. It was Small Business struggli
A motion to boost uranium enrichment just days after the killing of a Top Nuclear Scientist driven from their homes now living hand to mouth ethiopian refugees fight hunger and uncertainty in sudanese refugee camps and covering it japans relationship with the Face Covering the new exhibit billed as a theme park for masks. And sport around madrid could be set for an early exit from the European Champions League defeat against shakhtar dont yes has put reality on the brink of elimination. Donald trumps bid to overturn the u. S. President ial election result has suffered another major blow with the attorney general saying there is no evidence. Of widespread voter fraud bill barr told the Associated Press that the Justice Department investigation has in his words not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected at different outcome president elect joe biden be trumped 53062232 votes in the Electoral College and more than 6000000 votes in the popular vote well alan fisher is following eve
Shanghai composite, 3 10 of an percent of the upside. Lets have a look at what is going on currency wise. This is the dollar index. Not that much changed. Bitcoin. Oves is down nearly 2 at the moment. [indiscernible] thetocurrency left to 18,000 level. Citigroup causing a stir with a 300,000 plus estimate with regards to bitcoin. U. S. Dollar index pretty much unchanged. Stasis as weoil in wait to see what is happening with some of these internal squabbles taking place with members of opec, mainly the uae. Mitchell with the first word headlines. Early south koreas trade data shows exports extending their recovery. The yearose 11 from earlier. South korea shipments received a boost from china and the u. S. Cap exports were up almost 22 . Singapore sees at the economy expanding by between four and 6 next year as it rebounds from the virus. Thirdquarter gdp shrunk by 5. 8 on the year and the estimate for contraction was revised to six to 6. 5 . The decline for the Third Quarter compared t
Im jon fortt. The dow is down. 5 with walgreens and boeing leading to the down side. The nasdaq still slightly in the green. Looking ahead to a huge week tech investors need to be watching cloud, software, devices, and fitness in cloud, the period beginning next week is a time of peak demand for amazon even more so this year. In software, retailers going to need targeting tools from Companies Like adobe to bring shoppers in and keep them loyal. Devices, pcs and con soles are going to keep us watching the likes of fit and in fitness in we cant hit the gym after all that pie, are we going to hit the peloton . Thats the question . Thats a good question. Or my personal favorite, a club row class. Its a good question, john particularly as the opportunity to go to a physical gym, that is diminishing as we see cases rise across the country and more restrictions or, you know, partial lockdowns. But as you lay out the themes, im thinking of some of the companies that have spent the last, you kn
Everyone here is really waiting with baited breath on who the president of the United States is. We understand through the counting that joe biden could win it. It is razor thin, but we dont know for certain. The markets dont expect some kind of surprise, which is why they are stable and up. The other story is the bank of england, talking possibly about negative rates. Although, not for now. Guy johnson in the conversation with the governor talking about the Downside Risk. I think we have learned earlier this year with thoughts of covid, that we act both andkly and we do at clearly scale. We have a very substantial genocide risk on the forecast, and a lot of that relates to how covid itself will evolve. The bank ofernor of england. Extensive comments on this. Really important interview, mr. Johnson, with Nestor Bailey on the bank of england. I should note, sterling rallies nicely. Some of the headlines this morning are pretty shocking. Let me do a data check. Jonathan ferro just emaile