Hold onto a recent rebound and global stocks head for a second week of losses. The European Union is giving Boris Johnson until the end of the month to back down on his controversial brexit bill. Cable holds at 1. 28. And citigroup names jane fraser ceo, making her the first woman to run a major wall street bank. She faces the challenge that alluded her predecessors, boosting the banks profitability in line with its rivals. Just under an hour away from the start of cash trading in europe. Lets take a look at where futures are pointing here on the dax, ftse, and euro stoxx 50. Futures all pointing down, although slightly lowered right now, with ftse futures off by about 0. 3 . Take a look at u. S. Futures quickly after the drops we saw yesterday, almost 2 drops. We have a bouncing futures bounce in futures. Anna lets have a look at some data out of the u. K. We are getting monthly gdp data. The u. K. Economy growing by 6. 6 in july. It is almost in line with the estimate of 6. 7 . No su
It feels like a long week but second week of september. European stocks are prep flat. We had a mixed week overall. There have been concerns over evaluations in some pockets of the market, global and technology stuff and then the other big question is what happens to euro . Christine lagarde delivered relatively mild comments on the currency surge. And headed for the biggest weekly drop since march. Lets get to bloomberg first word. Europe has overtaken the u. S. In terms of coronavirus infections. The e. U. , norway, iceland and lichtenstein reported more than 27,000 cases on wednesday compared to 26,000 in the u. S. The region has remerged as a global hot spot after bringing the pandemic under control earlier in the year. The odds of another round of u. S. Fiscal stimulus has dropped. Senators dropped a republican proposal for slimmed down support in the region of 500 billion to 700 billion dollars. Temperatures are looking for temperatures are looking or 2. 2 trillion. The u. K. Eco
Ground. In the fact that this square in front of Government House in minsk is empty now in the rain is no indication that these protests are losing their dynamism their momentum from the beginning this has been very diffuse protests spread across and then spread across the whole country and people have been coming out for events in the evenings going back to work and theyve really made a conscious decision not to set up a central part of the government then surround and clear arresting people even from where im standing now i can see people walking with flags on the side of the road drivers beeping their horns in support of those protesters so its a very fast moving very diffuse situation here but things looking good for president. You get a sense of people theyve lost their fear of challenging the government out in the open i think that something will be very difficult for the regime here to dial back even if these protests words die out there are stories of policemen who are just ref
And on the show donald trump takes aim at his democratic rival in a fiery acceptance speech he calls joe biden the man who outsourced american jobs to china and says this vote will be the most important election in american history. Also our show. Pianist in the rooms no longer 5 years after some 1300000 refugees and Migrants Center in germany will hear the story of a syrian musician who documented his experience in a book. Im brian thomas great to have you with us today the german chancellor has warned that the song. And to you bill ross must be respected she added there should not be any foreign intervention during her summer News Conference here in berlin among the broad range of topics bellerose playing a major role in machall reacted to russian president putins announcement that he had formed a police force to support the countrys embattled leader Alexander Lukashenko if needed she warned that Foreign Forces would stay out should stay out rather of the former soviet state. It is l
Sovereignty of belarus should be respected and that she hoped that the forces we heard about the Russian Forces putin announced that they wouldnt be deployed she stressed that it is important that the people of belarus can protest can demonstrate s. They wish without any interference from any side asked by john list for the rather violent line of action from the Security Forces in belarus not only against demonstrators but also against drawing a list of said that this is not acceptable and she added i found that very interesting that she wanted to talk to alex hunter look at sankoh and try to reach him on the phone because it is important to keep up the dialogue but he declined to talk to her so far as this Summer Press Conference then you will then join a List International journalists as well asking the chancellor a range of questions one of them was about alexina vali the russian Opposition Leader currently being treated for suspected poisoning here in berlin lets take a listen to w