Is improvements thats where that were talking about moderate as improvements. But thats how bad we were just a couple of days ago. Now conditions will continue to get better as we make our way especially into thursday and friday these are your 2 days to really savor because theyre going have the best air quality before weekend conditions look likely to get a little worse yet again. 50s and 60s right now for your morning temperatures, not a bad way to start the morning. Later on today will be in the 70s 80s, not a bad way to spend the afternoon either robin thank you john were checking in on the Richmond Center fell where the drive time its double what it normally is because of an accident a minor crash, but its blocking. And its adding to the backup. So lets check in on west bound 5. 80 leading up to the pay gates, the crashes right after the view and we see looks like fire trucks responding to that as well if you look over to the right you can see some of fire trucks rolling out to th
Francine a couple of days ago. They are close in condemning huawei in china. This is over a security law that china did in hong kong with the u. K. Offering to suspend the extradition treaty with china, something that china has not taken so well. Nott punish the u. K. By doing dont touch football. It is something that actually could simmer, but we had a great story on bloomberg yesterday saying that under president xi, we could just see a china versus u. S. , china versus u. K. , as he is ready to take on the world as being the strongman back home. Tom it will be interesting to seal. I will be emailing our chinese brethren, on crystal palace, i believe, sunday. Right now, first word news with karina mitchell. Karina bloomberg has learned there is a settlement in the Goldman Sachs case and malaysia. Elation would drop all criminal charges it malaysia would drop all criminal charges against the bank. China has struck back. He has ordered the u. S. To close its consulate in the southweste
At 1 00 p. M. Today. Time now for global exchange. Tom hong kong to beirut, berlin, brussels and washington come our bloomberg voices are on the ground this mornings top stories. We want to begin in china. Chinese vice premier liu he will travel to washington next week to sign the first phase of a u. S. Trade deal. Ranthe current enda cur joins us. In some ways, no surprise. Enda no surprise, but is the first indication that we will find this next week. It will be a pretty heavy delegation with the vice premier. Other trade and commerce related officials. We dont have much more detail be on. The Foreign Ministry didnt give much more detail. That agricultural goods are part of the agreement, but we dont know what else. While this is obviously a positive sign that the trade deal will go ahead, a lot of people will be looking for any final hiccups in the days before the signing, and of course, when the details come out, there will be a lot of scrutiny. Alix thank you very much. In beirut,
The stoxx 600 are flat. The focus is on trade. I would like to point out eurodollar is the one we are watch out we are watching out for after some pretty concerning news out of germany. That was the employment figures. Coming up on bloomberg surveillance, we will talk about the outlook for u. K. Assets. What happens next in the bond market. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news. Viviana Prime Minister Boris Johnson denies he broke the journalist groped a journalist 20 years ago. The year overshadowing Conservatives Party ifservative parties brexit gets delayed he will not resign. I have undertaken to lead the party at a difficult time. I am going to continue to do that. Have a responsibility to do that. I think it is our job to get brexit done on october 31 but to move the country on. Viviana donald trump is calling for the impeachment inquiry to be questioned. He demands he meets the anonymous whistleblower. U. S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi telling cbs news she is asking President
And ive always said this. Its nice to have kids because you need to live to watch them grow up, right i guess time is passing, they cant grow up. Did you have a nice day we did. I i dont know, i thought i had a free rain ein to imbibe. You cant tell what youre doing until its too late. So i have a picture we had a cake when we got home. I was laying on the couch and they took a picture of me because i wouldnt sit up to eat the cake you need those glasses that we had stounounds like a good birth we went in the big city it was fun. Happy belated birthday. Thank you. Folks, lets check out the u. S. Equity futures. The second trading week of the year green arrows dow was up by 577 points gain of 2. 3 nasdaq up by even more 3. 4 just in the first four trading days looks like there are green arrows across the board. Dow futures up comes after big gains up tonight in asia. Nikkei up by. 9. Hang seng up by a quarter of a percent. Shanghai up. Early trading in europe this morning you will see t