The bill awaits signoff from the president. Akron turns up the heat. France threatens to veto a brexit deal if it does not like the terms, piling pressure on the e. U. Not to make further concessions. Welcome to the program, everybody. 7 00 in london. 8 00 in paris. Lets look at the futures. We are fairly flat on futures. The young stock x50 futures flat. Yesterday, we saw some decent gains for the ftse, up by more than 1 and that was a standout compared to the rest of europe which was more mixed. It was mixed in the u. S. Session as well. We did actually see a bit of a late rally in u. S. Equity trading, up to some of those new highs we were talking about in headlines. All of that in the context of the hopes and dreams around u. S. Stimulus. The concern about what can legitimately be done in the shortterm and a lot of hope around vaccines. Perhaps oncent day some parts of the equities space and a late rally in the u. S. Yesterday and we are now pausing. We are pausing somewhat here. W
Treatments it will be one of the jitters. Add them to many in the markets here. All in all taking it relative stride. I say relative stride. Again the Administration Front and center today, getting idea, talking to Economic Club members from around the country what the president thinks is going on to the economy. He is the best bet for the economy. Teasing a middle income tax cut as well if he were to get reelected. Fallout from the comments. The president s busy Campaign Schedule with blake burman from the white house. Hey, blake. Reporter i feel like there is a news burst leading up to the minutes of this show. That is certainly the case. Let me walk you through in and around washington the last half hour. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin speaking right now. He echoed a lot of comments, similar comments that Mitch Mcconnell and nancy pelosi made in the most recent days. The treasury secretary saying as it relates to a possible covid relief package it would be tough to get done before
Sovereignty should be respected around the possibility of Russian Forces intervening she said she hopes such a force would not need to intervene also stressed that she had tried to speak to me. On the phone but that he had declined so far im going to call emphasized that she believes it is important not only to talk to the russian president how about belarus but to other leaders as well but that so far mr has declined her offer to speak on the phone about the situation in that country. Of commons russias involvement looks likely to worsen the already tense times between the e. U. And moscow and between germany and moscow merkel also had a few words to say about russias general behavior in the region lets have a quick listen. Well you know its. The annexation of crimea our attempts to have a couple of days at least without any fatalities in ukraine the attack on mr scrip all these issues do look like a common thread. And that is a constant strain on the german russian relations and also
After covid19 vaccine. We are going to be talking in particular of an Innovative New model to try to address the issues around how to encourage accelerated research and development of important vaccine candidates, but also, how they can produced and distributed in ways that take an International Perspective and a perspective of equity and a Public Healthdriven distribution approach. So, were going to be talking a lot about the covax and theres a slide for the audience to get more grounded in what is covax. Its the vaccine pillar of something called the act accelerator to speed up access to diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines. There are three elements of the necessary tools for an effective medical and Public Health response. This was launched in april and it was really launched as a collaboration of both government, importantly including the European Union and their president , but also philanthropy and not for profit organizations coming together, recognizing this critical need as
Chancellors statement . Were they in strong agreement with him . Anna he has a lot of support within the story within the tory party. Good morning to you, tom. Rishi sunak thrown into this incredible task of managing the u. K. Economy through all this. He remains very popular within the party. Interesting to see from the other side of the political spectrum, the criticism that he is not done enough. Maybe he is saving something for the autumn, but it will be crucial to watch what happens with unemployment. That we have an end mechanism for the furlough scheme that has done so much to support employment for this country. How much happen and will employment spike . Thiswere people riveted to , the statement at the beginning that the pandemic is terrible. Were people riveted to his speech yesterday . Anna im not sure that riveted is a way to describe it. Earlier, that dominated the day to day conversation, the conservative party stepping in in a way that you might expect a Labour Governme