Everyone here is really waiting with baited breath on who the president of the United States is. We understand through the counting that joe biden could win it. It is razor thin, but we dont know for certain. The markets dont expect some kind of surprise, which is why they are stable and up. The other story is the bank of england, talking possibly about negative rates. Although, not for now. Guy johnson in the conversation with the governor talking about the Downside Risk. I think we have learned earlier this year with thoughts of covid, that we act both andkly and we do at clearly scale. We have a very substantial genocide risk on the forecast, and a lot of that relates to how covid itself will evolve. The bank ofernor of england. Extensive comments on this. Really important interview, mr. Johnson, with Nestor Bailey on the bank of england. I should note, sterling rallies nicely. Some of the headlines this morning are pretty shocking. Let me do a data check. Jonathan ferro just emaile
Francine i agree. The sports angle is extremely significant, and i hear more people say what does it mean for the future . If you have so much power and are able to bring so much pleasure to so many people, that seems to be the future of where this is headed, unless we get a vaccine. I was looking forward to seeing about inflation and if the Central Banks are right in saying we shouldnt believe all the hype, or if we get a vaccine, even if it is quick, it will be a cureall. One of the things we will explore further in this hour. Tom election 2020 is still ongoing. And somehow weekend stagger through the holiday season. You wonder what the news flow will be about 8 00 p. M. Tonight within the United States of america. In new york city with our first word news, here is karina mitchell. rejecting President Trumps claims of widespread voter fraud. They say last weeks election was the most secure in American History and there is no evidence any Voting System deleted, lost votes, changed vot
Cases are stuck. If you go back into lockdown, you will have a revolt. I am more interested in china. We broke the story that they are looking this was reuters they are looking a little more when it comes to renminbi. I did spend a good of time looking this up, on sunday, china clearly said it was trying to push to have a bigger international this means more pboc report. Reutersst report from we broke saying that china will remove a countercyclical factor in the yuan bay point in that direct and may point in that direction. Halt, shelf will its plan to let hedge cut to let hedge funds conceal stock holding. That is a big decision. That is just breaking. Thatll have to see where leads this morning. Futures up six. Dow futures up 20. We will do the data check in a moment. But now, first world news with ritika gupta. Ritika Amy Coney Barrett has been sworn in as a justice of the supreme court. Boothsst of two required administered. Every republican but one voted in favor. Chief Justice Jo
And say there was not a lot of politics or policy. Look at the post to see who won, but the wider implication is that it was chaotic. It was acrimonious. Think it is going to be hard to get a clearcut winner, or certainly it will be tense. Coverage in washington, driving the story forward to october 15. A town hall meeting in miami. First world news in new york city, here is ritika gupta. Ritika it was billed as the first president ial debate, but last nights event in cleveland quickly slipped into chaos. Insults drowned out ideas. At one point, President Trump and joe biden battled over coronavirus. He knew it was a deadly disease. What did he do . He is on tape acknowledging he knew it. He didnt give us a warning because he didnt want to panic the people. You dont panic, he panicked. The only thing i have not done a good job, thats because of the fake news. Better what you say, they give you fake press. They give you good press and they give me a press because that is the way it is.
Everyone is safeguarded and is as safe as possible. But again, there are different rules in england, if you are in scotland, in wales. That of people are saying it is confusing. The bigger thing is that there is not a rebellion inside the tory party about some of the extra things put in place, on the fact that the Prime Minister is gaining too much power. Debate. Big story is the ruining beauty rest. Right now, your first word news, ritika gupta. Ritika President Trump and joe biden will go headtohead for the first time in the president ial debate in cleveland tonight. The president unwittingly has n,ne a big favor to bide lowering expectations. He has painted biden as sleepy, which we have lowered expectations for menu have not seen him since the democratic convention. And a scaledback 2. 2 trillion proposal has been the legislation is designed to move along talks between House Speaker nancy pelosi and secretary of the treasury steven mnuchin. More details coming up from the New York