France and spain from acacia seeds to fruit and ginger the myths that people are putting their faith in for protection from the coronavirus. Welcome to the program the u. S. President has criticised the World Health Organization for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic donald trump says the agency is china centric and issued bad advice at the outset of the crisis his comments follow the leaked a memo that revealed the new details about warnings the trumpet ministration received on how bad that the outbreak in the u. S. Could be meanwhile in the u. K. Prime minister Boris Johnson is spending a 2nd night in intensive care as he battles covert 19 the foreign secretary dominic robb who has stepped in to lead the government says johnson is stable and has been given oxygen but is not on a ventilator the u. K. And the state of new york in the u. S. Have recorded their highest number of deaths in a day the u. K. Is registered 786 thats well 731 people died in new york well donald trump has
That nobody would have ever thought possible. It has been incredible. That is why the numbers are so far much better. We want to keep it that way. If you look at the original projections, if we did nothing, it would be disasterous. If we, we decided to do something, we closed it down. Had no choice t was a good move. That was a good move. The early china move was a good move. Early europe move was a good move. We did a lot of good moves. Closing it down was a big statement, an important thing, but were looking to have far viewer deaths than originally thought and i think were heading in that direction but it is too early to talk about it. I dont even want to talk about it now because we want to work and, i think that people are doing an incredible job. The doctors, the nurses, the firefighters, the police, all medical people, what theyre doing, the bravery theyre displaying is just incredible. Every citizen should take immense pride in the selflessness and all of the courage and compas
Its very important that every one strongly follow the guidelines have to follow the guidelines that our great Vice President holds up a lot hes holding that up a lot he believes it is so strongly the better you do the faster. This whole nightmare will end. Therefore we will be extending our guidelines to april 30th. To slow the spread. Dr Anthony Fauci of a top Infectious Disease specialist in the u. S. Believes extending these measures is crucial to slowing spread of the virus and the cost of life yes we feel that the mitigation that were doing right now is having an effect its very difficult to quantitative because you have to dynamic things going on at the same time you have the virus going up and you have the mitigation trying to push it down but the decision to prolong not prolong but to extend this mitigation process until the end of april i think was a wise and prudent decision and on monday the director general of the World Health Organization echoed this same sentiment. We und
Record employment for the for the year of 2019. That is the Silver Lining as well. We are still waiting for new credit data out of china which deadline, within the the 17th of this month. That is when we get to gdp numbers as well. Su keenan in new york. Su lets start with proand antigovernment demonstrators facing off in central tehran over the shooting down of a passenger jet last week. All 176 people on board the ukrainian plane died when it was head by two missiles asked fired by the revolutionary guard. Iran initially blamed technical issues for the crash. Is calling forni a special court to investigate the disaster. The entire world is watching. In the u. S. , the senate is withg closer to a review democrat tim kaine saying he has enough republican votes to pass a bill limiting the president s ability to launch an attack without congressional approval. The news reflect bipartisan dissatisfaction over the administrations very best varying justifications for the drone site strike i
Moving news from all around the world from frankfurt, to london, taiwan, our bloomberg two iowa, our bloomberg voices are on the ground. Commodities leading the charge for the quarter. Here for more is bloombergs sonali basak. Income net interest coming in above analyst expectations is a great thing for bank of america because it shows the bank is doing what a bank should do. That is loan growing, deposits growing. Investment banking mergers and acquisition fell short than expectations, but we are seeing that across the board. We want to see confidence among corporate clients now that we know consumers are holding steady. Alix what were some of the worries through the quarter . Sonali the expenses were up, but bank of america was a costcutting story. Something we are hearing from all of the banks is the propensity to keep investing because the cycle is getting competitive at this moment. Alix thank you very much. Now i want to go to the latest on trade. President trump is ready to sign