Live now to discussion with main senator angus king who joins Healthcare Providers and Bipartisan Policy Center experts on the use of telehealth during the covid pandemic. Health team led by, Catherine Hayes and others. For those of you who may be unfamiliar with the Bipartisan Policy Center we were established a a little over a decade ago by four former majority leaders, senator bob dole, late senator howard baker on the republican side. Senator tom daschle and senator George Mitchell on the democratic side. Senator mitchell from the great state of maine which youll hear shortly his estate, very well represented here this morning. The country is indeed, indeed the world quite frankly is experiencing a once in a lifetime pandemic caused untold suffering and death. Doctors, nurses, hospitals, Healthcare Providers are struggling to provide Critical Care under some very difficult conditions. But if there is any good, and theres that much, but if theres any good to come out of this virus,
An inperson showdown. Commission holds firm it will be virtual. Good morning, everyone. This is bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. Stimulus talks could be closer, or at least they. Are back on the agenda. Here is what. I am looking at across the board. Is movingr yield attached, dollar declining, global stocks rising as the white house appeared to shift track, which signaled it is open to a large. Later on surveillance, we talked to armand sarkissian, 9 30 a. M. U. K. Time. Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news in london with leighann gerrans. Hi, leighann. Leighann good morning, francine. Leighann the debate will happen. The commission organizes it insists it will be virtual, but President Trump says he will not debate,t in a virtual calling the commission a joke. He is calling for to be rescheduled, but joe biden is rejecting that. He says the president pulled out, not joe biden. As dailyaximum alert coronavirus cases exceed 18,000 for a second strai
And facebook, and china h and a on a looming cash crunch. The level of debt in china. Yvonne some breaking news right now, south korea inflation in january looking soft, we see a 1 year on year estimate monthtomonth numbers edging lower at 4 10 of 1 , it seems the inflation looking to be getting more soft. Inething we do get to see the Fourth Quarter because we start to see the base effect starting to unwind and the stock currency weakness it is certainly playing into that inflation picture and it is essentially confirms the analysis that that be ok should bok. On hold in the meantime, inflation here looks like it may be picking up pace. That that statement mentioned Economic Growth and Economic Conditions might mean further gradual rate increases and too many that meant Interest Rate hikes coming faster than expected. I want to pull up one of our favorite charts it is wirp, and it shows Interest Rate hikes near almost 100 . Rate hike iner march, and certainly there is a sense where we
Reports he may have avoided paying federal taxes for 18 years. Many are wondering if he could recover from his worst week in the campaign. Halfway into the trading day. Good to see you. We are talking about company basicallythe pushing the market to the downside as you can see what majors with the industries now. Premuch similarly for the s p 500 as well as the nasdaq. Over the past four quarters, we saw gains for the s p in the dow and we are starting the work order of the year on a negative note. Lets look at some of the best performers including tesla, netflix, tesla coming out talking about how thirdquarter sales or cars came in a little better than expected. It is still sticking with a by the end forecast of december. Netflix is up here. Outage overpower the weekend if you are watching netflix. This is a serious by marvel called luke age, a lot of Binge Watching caused the outage. Resorts also rising up 3 because of september, lets go and flip up the board and see what is happenin
Flow of vital information. I agree with your point about whistleblower protections, but there are a range of different motives. There are spy, Robert Hanssen types. No sympathy for that. A lot of people leak because it makes them feel important. They are in the know, and it shows they are in the know. It makes them feel good to do that. I dont have much sympathy for that. I do have sympathy for an actual whistleblower. Were are instances where h have seen for the right reason they have gone to the press and laid out what a disagree with. Adont know that we can have system that allows every person asideide, but if you put that systemic issue, i understand where whistleblowers are coming from, and its incumbent on the government to have a process that allows whistleblowers to raise his or her concerns, get them heard, protect them from retaliation, and be confident if there is a need for change there will be congressional a committees. You say its broken now. I dont know if it ever becam