A medical journal is due to publish more information on the vaccine trial. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. Im Francine Lacqua in london. The markets are more quiet, but a lot of the focus is euro given what weve seen in the markets and what we saw with the eu leaders. The eu strengthening to a fourmonth high, bond spreads narrowing as regional leaders in europe make progress negotiating a stimulus package for economies devastated by the pandemic. Eurodollar, 1. 1455 and gold flat. Lets get the first word news with laura wright. May joink. International allies and suspending its extradition pact with hong kong, it could come today when the foreign secretary addresses parliament. Tensions have ramped up in recent weeks. London could introduce sanctions over human rights abuses, a move beijing once would have consequences. Donald trump is playing down arising coronavirus cases. He told foxnews many are experiencing nothing more than sniffles and positive tests are only up because of wa
Ministers brief reporters, and it is brutal on the negotiations. Tom brutal is the right word. There was one photo ice saw. E looking justutt exhausted. For those of you who have not followed the soap opera, it is still not over. This monday isn deceptive, extraordinary. Out of china, the virus particularly in america, and this european donnybrook it is amazing. And then the market reaction. Francine it is quite a lot for a mid july market. Now lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Here is ritika gupta. The their repeating European Union may be on the verge of a deal with denmark and Sweden Holding of the oceans. They appear to be ready to greet that 450 billion of the fund would be made available as grants with the rest of it coming as low interest or loans lowinterest loans. Brexit negotiations are in a tense standoff, dashing hopes of between the u. K. And the European Union, which failed to make progress last month. British negotiators say the e. U. s concessions are
Infection rates low in tokyo but hong kong says the situation is increasingly severe. Jack ma looks to make more headlines. He is aiming for a 200 billion valuation with between listings in hong kong and shanghai. Look at how take a we are setting up when it comes to the asian open. We have a lot of positivity carrying on from that session. Investors are backing that buy the dip trend. The nasdaq hitting the alltime high. The s p hitting positive for the year. S p active futures contracts a little bit lower at the moment but it seems like the positive. Evelopment on vaccines trading sideways if you will. The dollar was broadly weaker in g10 except for the yen. We had Dollar Strength and yen weakness overnight. That is the handle we are looking at ahead of Inflation Numbers out of japan and getting machine tool numbers as well as some Retail Sentiment numbers by way of Department Store sales. Crude and gold were both a little bit lower in the asian start to the session. Some positive de
Expected to have a real estate boom he says yes and has the numbers to prove it. You are watching Worldwide Exchange here on cnbc good morning welcome from wherever in the world you may be watching. I am brian sullivan. We are keeping our physical distance but hope you are doing well despite 25 plus Million People out of work and the steepest drop in retail sales in 30 years, the stock market looks forward and likes a bit of what it sees. Futures are higher once again. The dow surged closing above the 24,000 mark for the First Time Since april 17th capping a foursession win streak. The dow industrial average is up 10 this month ahead of the open trying to break a threemonth losing streak. A very different story on oil. Crude oil is lower right now nearing an important level a couple of things wonky going on bare with me i know it is early you have to watch the oil level. We could see selling pressure accelerate because the chicago amerimercane exchange recently changed on that contract
The train jumped to his aid before Oliver Tyrone Williams was fatally stabbed. My heart is truly broken over this. It breaks my heart that this goes on bart trains and there is no Police Patrolling these things. Reporter bart confirms that the fight between williams and suspect gejermaine brim was fir reported to them as the train left the station tuesday afternoon, and that officers responded one stop later at south hayward. Williams intervened when the shoeless brim allegedly tried to steal the shoes from another sleeping passenger. Williams was killed with his own knife. Did you know he would have carried something as selfprotection perhaps . Protection. The world is crazy. Thats why he carried it. Thats why he had a knife, for protection. Reporter brim made his first court appearance, covering his face and hiding behind a wall. He is charged with five felonies, including firstdegree murder, carjack and theft. Williams family was seated in the courtroom to represent the brother they