Ms. Cortez masto madam president. The presiding officer the senator from nevada. Ms. Cortez masto i rise today to join my colleagues in opposing the confirmation of judge Amy Coney Barrett as justice of the Supreme Court. This is the wrong time to be choosing a Supreme Court justice. And judge barrett is the wrong candidate for a seat on that court. The timing for todays confirmation vote is shocking. The majority of americans want to be able to weigh in on who should sit in Justice Ruth Bader ginsburgs seat on the highest court in the land. They want to vote to choose a president to fill that vacancy. We are eight days away from americans casting the final votes in the 20 election. Over 58 million americans have already voted, including more than 649,000 nevadans. The American People are making their voices heard in response to this administrations disastrous handling of the coronavirus pandemic which has led to the loss of 225,000 american lives including 1,48 nevadans and sickened o
His wife to find the bad. Boy ensuring off down with her parents far away off to weeks of separation the surrogate baby is in ukraine finally meets her family but many others still face a long wish. Plus thailands elephants at risk of starvation a sharp drop in tourism means hundreds so at this have no income and no way to feed their animals it had to hit the road to find food. And im christine will welcome to the program the mayor of the holds most of the most since he has been charged with criminal negligence of a Massive Oil Spill in siberia last month tens of thousands of tons of diesel fuel leaked into a local water. Always around the city often orders investigators say the mayor failed to react quickly enough. Environmentalist are calling it the worst disaster in the region in living memory. More than 20 tons of fuel have leaked into rivers and waterways in Russias Arctic north turning large expanses of water red. The pollution is already damaging ecosystems and wildlife. Its foo
His personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and the u. S. Attorney general william barr, to look into his little look into his political rival joe biden. This is according to the rough transcript, not the exact transcript, and it has just been released. Lets get to chief washington correspondent Kevin Cirilli for more details. It looks like it is a rough transcript, and not all of the details. Kevin precisely. Right now we are just getting a link to the transcript of President Trumps call with the ukrainian president. Lets go through some of those headlines crossing the bloomberg terminal now. The transcript shows trump pushing him to reopen the biden probe, and President Trump at one point asking his ukrainian counterpart to look into joe bidens son. President trump also reminding zelensky that the u. S. Sends aid to ukraine, and that this is not a verbatim, but this was based off of notes and recollections of officials. A statement now coming from White House Press secretary Stephanie Grisha
Constructive. It needs funds to help reduce a crippling total debt of 130 billion. The streets of hong kong, demonstrators clashing with police for a 16th consecutive weekend. Shery lets get you started with a check of the markets. Seeing u. S. Futures gaining ground,. 5 . This after the s p 500 lost ground on friday. We have seen stocks higher throughout the session. The we got reports that chinese delegation in the u. S. Had canceled their visit to u. S. Farms. That led markets lower. We had trade sensitive stocks, like consumer stocks and tech, leading the declines. The nasdaq fell the most in over two weeks. After the close, we saw local media reports in china that the cancellation of those trips to u. S. Farms had nothing to do with trade negotiations. Perhaps risk on sentiment being felt across the market. Treasuries rallied throughout the week. 10 year yields now at the moment at 172 level. Lets see how things are shaping up in asia. Japan markets are closed on holiday, but the
Arrivedtwitter ahead of trade talks, raising the presence among the american people. Shery later in Bloomberg Technology global link, ibm closely 34 billion purchase of red hat, sealing the worlds secondlargest tech deal ever. Will this help ibm catch up in Cloud Services . We will discuss. First, a quick check of how the markets closed in the u. S. The s p 500 pushing higher. In the last hour or so of trading after fluctuating between gains and losses. We have fang stocks meeting the gains. We saw some declines when it came to the consumer staples. Not to mention material stocks that led the gains. We have the dow unchanged at the toent, falling slightly down 26,783. Investors still bracing for powells testimony to the house tomorrow and the senate on thursday. Lots of Central Bank News this week. Fed minutes on wednesday, ecb minutes on thursday, and Inflation Numbers on thursday. For the time being, we are seeing u. S. Futures unchanged. Investors being cautious at the moment. Lets