States biden prepares executive orders to undue a slew of orders and as President Trump challenges the vote. And Boris Johnson amongst the first to congratulate mr. Biden, while other leaders prepare to advance relations and biden prepares to name a covid19 task force as infections hit record daily levels while mark meadows tests positive joe biden has called for unity the win means that donald trump becomes the first one term president since george bush sr. In 1993. After four days of intense counting, biden was named the projected win winner in pennsylvania and nevada. He has so far claimed over 75 million votes, that is the most by any president ial candidate in history. Biden outlined the key issues his administration will face in the short term what is our mandate i believe it is this america has called upon us to marshal the forces of decency, of fairness and science and hope and the great battles of our time the battle to control the virus, the battle to build prosperity, the ba
Easing of lockdowns. Taylor i got him steven major you have thes massive helicopter money and stimulus but if the demand does not come back, he is more worried about disinflation, that made my ears perk up. Francine lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. The European Unions executive arm is coming out with its own stimulus package to deal with the regions worst economic emergency since world war ii and calls for spending 823 billion. Two thirds will be in the form of grants and the rest will be loans and funded by joint debt issuance. In hong kong, hundreds of protesters returned to the streets demonstrating against chinas plan to take more control of the city with National Security measures. Projectiles. Ired the u. S. Is thinking of ways to punish china for the hong kong crackdown and is weighing whether to declare the colony has lost autonomy from beijing. There could be visa restrictions for Chinese Communist party authorities. For the first time, twitter has added a f
That is the coronavirus outbreak and relations with turkey and russia at the Atlantic Council in washington, d. C. From earlier this month, this is about 90 minutes. The director of the future initiative here at the Atlantic Council. And its really my pleasure to host today the minister of state for European Affairs of the french republic for a conversation about france, europe, and the transatlantic relation. As you know, here at the Atlantic Council, we value european allies, we value u. S. Engagement, and the future of the initiative is to precisely make the case that the European Union is a key and critical Strategic Partner of the United States. Part of our role is to discipline the developments within the European Union and to engage policy makers and create a bridge and dialogue between policy makers of the United States and europe, especially in times of great power coalition. President macron in france has laid out ambitious agenda for engagement of partners like russia, refor
Council we value european allies and valued u. S. Engagement in the transatlantic relationship and the initiative is precisely to make the case that the European Union is a key, critical Strategic Partner of the United States. Part of our role is to explain the developments within the European Union and to engage policymakers and great bridge between policymakers United States and europe especially in times of Great Power Competition for as you know president macron of france is laid out an ambitious agenda for reform of the European Union for engagement of partners like russia, reforming the eurozone, reforming and stepping up European Defense integration as well as changing enlargement policy. These are issues that are think will discuss today with the minister. Let me first turn to start with initial remarks and then we will open to a conversation with all of you and we want this to be as interactive as possible. Thank you very much. [applause] good afternoon. Thank you for hosting
Sweet caroline. Good times never seemed so good. Ive been inclined. To believe they never would. Cheryl welcome to fbn a. M. And good morning. Im cheryl casone. Lauren good morning. And cheryl, thank you for telling me that its not tuesday. Its thursday. Cheryl its been a long week. Were celebrating the fact that its thursday. Lets take a look at how your money is moving on this thursday morning. After the feds decision to leave Interest Rates unchanged, right now, the dow is up 50 points, s p up 6 andahalf, nasdaq up by 21. Lauren lets take a look at how stocks closed this thursday session in asia, mostly higher. The shanghai composite losing about a third of 1 . Cheryl were monitoring the eus conference happening right now. Theres a lot of discussion of will the eu out put in place retaliatory tariffs against the United States, a lot of this as the fight between the United States and france, the digital tax, our proposed tariffs against them, were looking for headlines right now. So