The postelection risk rally faltering. Of good morning, everybody. 7 00 in london. Eight in paris or berlin. Lets have a look at the equity markets. Look like europe this. Negative. This is indicative of what we have seen on u. S. Futures or are seeing. U. S. Futures down 0. 5 . Nasdaq futures off their lows but still pretty negative. We are losing our nerve on Global Equity markets. Three days into this neverending election account it seems, the context of course is important. The rally we have seen must have been forgotten when we look at nasdaq futures, up nine, down one. Lets have a look at the gmm. Going on other things here. Oil prices are interesting, down by just over 2 . Dollar, not all about what is going on the dollar. Inflation trade unwinding. Investors wait, the electorate in the United States waits for the counting to continue. The race for the white house is still too close to call. Counting continues in crucial swing states with joe biden catching up in georgia and pen
Nation. And donald trump is ready to return to the campaign trail saying he might attend a rally in florida this weekend u. S. President was of course hospitalized was cold and his doctor has not said if the president has since tested negative for the right. Im brian thomas good to have you with us today europe is seeing a resurgence in new coronavirus cases that have now surpassed those in the United States still infections reaching record levels in the United Kingdom and in france here in germany meanwhile the capital berlin has been declared a coronavirus ha spot amidst a nationwide surge new restrictions are going into effect with the head of germanys main Public Health Institute Warning that widespread infections are likely if people fail to keep hygiene and distancing rules but Officials Say the countrys Health Care System is up to the task. Coronavirus hotspots are cropping up all over germany but local and regional Officials Say the country is ready intensive care beds are avai
The students of the past. Training successful. Such as. Starts october 16th. East african stock markets are joining hands they want to learn more capital and big businesses but kenya has pulled out of the planets taking a lot of financial firepower with it. As a hot spot france is seeing record numbers. Infections are rising across europe so are new fears for the economy. And thailand wants to cash in on the growing medical marijuana market that is so weve got the details. Globe welcome to the show im stephen busy in berlin its good to have you with us and we begin today in east africa where 3 countries uganda tanzania and rwanda are preparing to merge their stock markets and the project is funded by the world bank and the aim is to make cross border trading easier tanzanias Stock Exchange features 27. 00 companies with a combined market cap of 6500000000. 00 uganda has 17 together with more than 5000000001. 00 has 10 publicly listed companies have a combined value of 3 and a half 1000
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Now in the days and weeks that will decide how germany will fare in this pandemic in winter. We see that we obviously have very special infection dynamics in germanys largest cities. Patients on ventilators for. My top priority is possible not to have to bring economic and public life back down to the level that was necessary in the spring. We have to appeal to our population we dont want to have a situation like the resume prousts for a situation like there is in spain. We dont want to 2nd lockdown. Germany marks a year since an anti semitic attack that left 2 people dead. Ladies and gentlemen it is not enough to condemn an attack like the one in hundreds of targets and then to return to business as usual. Welcome to the day chancellor Angela Merkel the mass of 11 major cities in germany have agreed a package of new measures to stop the spread of coronavirus germany fear is a growing 2nd wave of the virus after infection rates in cities like berlin and frankfurt reached a key threshol