Friday coming off the exhaustion of all of that central bank news, the analysis of the markets, the big tech earnings. I would focus on this may day, on the persistent theme, the dawning awareness about a seriousness a pandemic continues to be. One lighter note, there is a beach war in america. The governor of california is shutting down the beaches while alabama and texas are talking about opening the beaches. That is the distraction in a very difficult virus statistics. Howcine it is interesting in the u. S. It differs from state to state. With the bloomberg first word news in new york city is Viviana Hurtado. Viviana we begin with u. S. Federal reserve expanding the scope of its main Street Lending program. Now businesses with up to 15,000 employees will be eligible, so will those with up to 5 billion in revenue. The central bank is expanding its paycheck protection facility. This after the initial round of funding was spent in under two weeks. European central bank looking to ease
The football world is in shock. The sports governing body, fifa , is gathering in switzerland to elect its next president but arrest and corruption charges are getting in the way. Swiss authorities made several highprofile arrests acting on an extradition mark from the u. S. , which indicted 14 feet for officials and Marketing Company executives. The Justice Department accuses them of abusing their positions to make millions of dollars in bribes for more than 20 years. Swiss Police Arrested the seven fee for officials at this luxury hotel. Among the detainees, the soccer world bodys Vice President and the head of its Central American chapter. He is one of seven ranking thief of functionaries arrested. These individuals used their positions of trust within their respective organizations to solicit bribes from sports marketers in exchange for commercial rights to their soccer tournaments. They did this over and over, year after year. Authorities raided fifa headquarters in a search for e
The football world is in shock. The sports governing body, fifa , is gathering in switzerland to elect its next president but arrest and corruption charges are getting in the way. Swiss authorities made several highprofile arrests acting on an extradition mark from the u. S. , which indicted 14 feet for officials and Marketing Company executives. The Justice Department accuses them of abusing their positions to make millions of dollars in bribes for more than 20 years. Swiss Police Arrested the seven fee for officials at this luxury hotel. Among the detainees, the soccer world bodys Vice President and the head of its Central American chapter. He is one of seven ranking thief of functionaries arrested. These individuals used their positions of trust within their respective organizations to solicit bribes from sports marketers in exchange for commercial rights to their soccer tournaments. They did this over and over, year after year. Authorities raided fifa headquarters in a search for e