Is the Minneapolis Police chief takes on the powerful police union saying hes breaking off talks a leading British Health expert says bringing in the lock down a week earlier would have caused the u. K. s number of covert 19 deaths and swedish prosecutors name a Graphic Designer who died 2 decades ago as the man who killed the Prime Minister all of palm me in 1906. And. One of the biggest boxing fights in history. And to be joshua fury have now agreed in principle to we to fight deal to decide who is the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. We begin the news hour in the u. S. Where George Floyds brother has urged politicians to quote stop the pain and pass reforms to End Police Brutality philonous floyd was testifying before the House Judiciary Committee on capitol hill he told members of congress to make sure his brothers that was not invading the 46 year old died in Police Custody and may sparking weeks of protests across the u. S. And around the world castro reports from wa
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The dollar still strong against currencies like the euro, but the commodityrelated currencies are performing really well in the em, as well as the g10 space. Time now for todays market moving news from our london and new york teams. We want to start with the markets after we have u. S. Futures rebounding. Joining me on the phone is bloombergs dani burger. The question i feel like, last week we saw the bottom, now feels off the table. Every day people are saying it is the bottom, it is not the bottom, but the picture continues to change. There is so much uncertainty. A bit of a lift in markets today. It is really the Energy Complex helping lead the way today, getting a boost from china beginning to buy oil for their state reserves. But any upside today is likely to lack conviction. Stocks in u. S. H fields are really starting to march higher. A slight backandforth in terms of u. S. 10 year yields, no moving lower after being just slightly higher today. Then you have to keep in mind that
Record that we saw back during the financial crisis of 2000, march of 2009. Jim, stunning though the number is, of course, we also have the stimulus or socalled lets call it more of a recovery act making its way through the congress the house set to act shortly on it were going to be joined by the treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, about 15 minutes from now to discuss that. And so many other things in the economy. What is at the fore of your thinking as we get started with trading a half hour frau noum . The gap we have 3. 2 million that file claims obviously, money comes for them, but i want to know date that the check is in the mail how it comes, how you get it, will it make it so that Small Business stays alive medium sized business stays alive, and is it enough to keep them alive for the pandemic . Is it one month, two months . How long does the 2 trillion last because this number is so big, and i dont think its peaking we have to be sure the American People themselves dont have r
Past week. By thursday we were down better than 20 from the february highs. That is definition of a bear market. The dow alone, down 10 on thursday that was the worst day since the 1986 crash and black monday. That left traders unsure how to handle the virus impact and questions abound about how slow the economy will become . Are we in a recession right now right now is a boston group chief officer david monson is here, joining us this weekend with 2 billion in Asset Management and eve got the ceo of van ecks, 51 billion in assets under management 80 of funds great to see both. Thank you so much for joining us. What a week, david lets kick it off with you. What did you do, were you caught flatfooted with that 2000point selloff on thursday quest mark. Thereto answers on that, i feel we are caught flatfooted in their sense of theres absolutely no time to react not just this week but over the last weeks. It is the unlike 20,072,008 and surly not like the 2002 bear market. This came so qui