Safety and stability of seniors as a top priority for any supervisor in San Francisco. Moderator thank you very much. Ms. Brown. Yes. I mean, seniors are the Fastest Growing population in this city. So we really have to really look at what we need to do. We also, besides housing and on the housing bond, the 600 million housing bond that i actually worked on, there will be money for senior housing. We need appropriate housing. I talked to many seniors every day. And one of the things they say is like, look, i have rent control. But i have you know, 50 stairs up to get to my apartment. And i have a hard time managing that. So we have to build the right kind of senior housing, so people can actually have elevators with Senior Services on site. This is something that were doing with prop a. But also we have to look at transportation, because a lot of seniors give up cars or, you know, or they actually start using transportation a lot more. We have to make it safe. Unless we have safe trans
Attacked by armed, masked men. We are live in the city. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. Lets check in first off on the markets. We see gains across European Equity indexes. That should show through in terms of u. S. Futures, as well as s p futures. Oil is down. You will see the big majors weighing on the stoxx 600 index. Maybe a turnaround of the gains we saw oil take yesterday. The u. S. 10 year yield is currently up for basis points to 1. 54, so investors feel less concerned and are selling that that. Lets get bloomberg first word news in new york. We begin in argentina. S P Global Ratings cut the Credit Rating to selective default after the nation said it would delay payment on more than 100 billion of debt. They says criteria, constitutes default, but the new terms for shortterm debt came in immediately and they will lift argentinas rating to triple c minus. Boris johnsons suspension of parliament will get an early test. , saying are ruling courts, saying it is an affront to dem
Also in the Programme India could be about to deal a major blow to crypto currencies by banning digital tokens such as bitcoin, ripple, and ethereum. And its the firm behind some of the biggest glossiest magazines in the world, but how is conde nast, the publisher of vogue, go, vanity fair adapting to the Digital World . Well get the inside track on making print pay. Hello and welcome to business live. A special edition of the programme coming to you live from westminster. Its a big day here in the uk for the countrys politics, because in a few hours from now, the governing conservative party will have a new leader. And i have to say, its getting very warm as well markets and investors will be keeping a close eye on developments, to see how the change of leadership will effect post brexit trade negotiations. So far, the uk has agreed continuity deals with 12 countries and regions. These include a group of countries from south america and the caribbean, and agreements with norway and sw
Hello. The United States plans to start withdrawing troops from afghanistan before next yea rs president ial election. Secretary of state mike pompeo describes his directive from President Trump as unambiguous end the endless wars. The afghan war is americas longest, with about 1a,000 us troops still there. Two were killed on monday in an apparent insider attack by an afghan soldier, and although peace talks continue with taliban militants, the chances of Real Progress look uncertain. Peter bowes is our north america correspondent. Peter, what is behind this, would you say . This appears to be a sign that President Trump is becoming increasingly impatient over a lack of progress in afghanistan over the last couple of years, and he has a lwa ys last couple of years, and he has always made it well known that he prefers to, as he puts it, to end these endless wars, and of course, this is currently americas longest war. He would rather be taking troops out and putting troops in all living
President trump says hes considering sanctions on streamrom ii nord ii. Their handsies get on 5g services. Watch Telecom Stocks at the open. Lawmakers say they wont discuss controversial extradition deal as tensions remain high and hong kong between protesters and police. Matt less than half hour from the start of european trading area look at the trading. Look at the spike of oil, a tanker fire in the gulf of oman leading to a 1. 5 gain. Oil had fallen to a fourmonth low and is bouncing back up on this fire. Futures are down. Dax teachers often little bit or a little bits off more than a quarter of 1 . Looks like a risk off day. Anna the risk off story writ large. We are selling off on stocks, not to an enormous extent. The treasury market is gaining ground. Yields are weaker. We see money going into the yen. Hong kong is weaker once again, tensions still on the radar of investors. More broadly, the concern is around the trade story. President trump lashing out at Angela Merkel in the