Am very much a show weve focused on africa here are some of the topics that will be looking at today. How rhonda trying to be boss a decline in needs be population. We also see how a sharing economy sconce resources. And finally how young activists in ghana are fighting for a healthier ecosystem. But foster to run the b. Population there has been shrinking and then great there as it has been in europe the main culprits are chemical pesticides and intensive farming practices bought biggest contribute to buy a device to they are great pollinators so how beekeepers in rwanda coping how can they talk of the problems we went to meet some of them to find out. If. His bees are dying and he cant do anything about it and say im cut gabo is destroying over the past 80 years more than half of his 70 colonies have perished. Because if we. All the bees that come back from the farms in fact the others are going to be hives our food thats why they both in the traditional and the modern times the moth
Way out of recession. Factory performers stabilize while Consumer Spending shows that recovery remains on track. Year profits plummet. Cash earnings falling 52 . It includes provisions for customer compensation. Ahead. Omaui lets check in on the markets. A big week indeed. We do have asian stock futures gaining for october with friday a significant day. The start of another trading week, we do have a bunch of asian pmis do today alongside more data from china. And the offshore yuan will be below 670 after a fivemonth game. Focus with as a and alibaba. Waiting on a big milestone this week. The hong kong dollar on friday following the most since june after its close. Amid this frenzy q÷d it has been fraught with twists. None of it seems to have altered the course set month ago as joe biden continin handful of states. Pennsylvania is a huge one but everyone has been talking about ohio and the upper midwest. As well as georgia and North Carolina that have traditionally been republican. It
Television across this nation, around the world, particularly those of you from continental europe. Lots to do in this hour. Right now, lisa and i need a primer on how this is not another exercise in kicking the can down the road this weekend in europe. Jonathan its got to get done. We got to see some progress. Theres a pool of money. What will be grants . What will be loans . What are the Strings Attached . That is it. What do we wake up to in the business papers across the whole of europe . Isurope united europe united were divided . Its really is europe united or divided . It is really not funny anymore. Tom how do you boil this down for our american listeners . They are like, weve seen this plenty of times. Jonathan if europe doesnt get a hold of it this time, it will be another 10 years of crawling out of an economic hole in a suboptimal way. We will have crisis after crisis, political episode after political episode, and redenomination risk that dominates Global Markets. We do no
To 10 million for a fiveyear loan, 3 , according to the reserve term sheet. The fed is expanding the main Street Program. The main Street Program for businesses started lending last week. One day worth of loans made. The fed announced last night there was one 12 million loan. They have gotten started. Criticism has been it took so long and there is not the man now or the rules do not help not demand now or the rules do not help. Went to others sources of cash, perhaps because of the requirements, the fed does not want to lose money, those who could not find cash would not be eligible anyway. At the moment, there are questions of efficacy. It is now expanded to nonprofits. Alix hang with me for a second. University of Michigan Sentiment coming in 73. 2 , Current Conditions coming in light on expectations. This shows we are not feeling good about where we are going over the next month. Lauren, the fed news is a perfect example of where we are at, continuing to support the economy, just n
Maria is there with more. What do we know so far . It seems like they are going to be talking on the 750 billion euros stimulus. Is that rhetoric . Maria it is unclear whether we get a deal. We do know european leaders have been stuck in a room was 10 hours debating what to do with his Recovery Fund. It is clear there are three major sticking points. One has to do with the size of the Recovery Fund, how big it is going to be. Euros wouldbillion be granted as grants to countries in Southern Europe that have been badly hit by the coronavirus. That could change during the weekend. There is an issue with the format, how much this money will be in terms of grants and how much will be a typical bailout just cash for reforms. Secondly, this is becoming a major thing, the governments. Who is going to make sure a country like italy after they get this money, who is going to make sure they use it for reforms . For a country like the netherlands, for the dutch Prime Minister to whom i spoke to in