A country still seen as exemplary for controlling the spread of the virus from the scene a shop jump in cases for each islands has more from london. They the government in the u. K. Is very keen to avoid another national law down here it would be crippling for an economy that is already being battered by previous coronavirus measures and breaks it as well so what theyre doing is looking at various localized measures we have had a huge jump in the number of positive corona cases on thursday 3000 to 17 and a half 1000 were not yet in the kind of same dark period that we were back in april where hundreds and hundreds of people were dying every day at the moments the death toll is about 7077 deaths recorded on on thursday the daily dumbass at the moment in france a higher than they are in the u. K. For the 2nd day running they being over 18000. 00 new coronavirus cases so again like in the u. K. Like in germany the measures that the government to taking are more localized ones so on thursd
Cash trade. Here are your top headlines from the bloomberg terminal. Trumpa on the defensive. The president stands by his handling of the coronavirus on day one of the Republican National convention. Says democrats are still blaming America First Nikki Haley Says democrats are still blaming America First. The chinese arrives in europe today. Demandsla merkel answers from russia after it was putin critict the was likely poisoned. We have figures crossing the wire right now. The German Economy shrank 9. 7 in the second quarter. The initial estimate was for a drop of 10 point 1 . This is a second look here, and so it looks like it is a little better than expected. Still, of course, a massive drop , the quarter over quarter figure. The yearoveryear figure is a drop of 11. 3 , so a big drop in the german gdp. That the bloomberg economists expect a rebound in the second half, and of fullyear drop of about 6 for 2020. Lets take a look at what futures are telling us after the new record highs
Well. Down as we have seen some more dollar weakness. We are kind of teetering. The market is kind of nervous about whether we are seen stretched positions in the dollar. And we are now, as you can see, still negative when it comes to the jones, but the data generally generally positive today out of germany. Lets talk more about what is happening in the industrial heartland of europe. Lets get more insight on what is happening with that german data. On efo president earlier about things improving. Lets listen. The recovery is on track. With the gdp progress slightly better than what we had a couple weeks ago and the revision and the Climate Index continues to increase, to recover, this time it is not just the expectation. It is really the situation that is improving. Guy a little bit earlier on, i mentioned the mixed news we are getting out of the li sector. We have now out of the airline sector. Airlines in america cutting jobs if federal aid lapses. October 1, we could potentially se
For shinzo abe. The pound is big today. We are up by 1 . Governor of the bank of england indicating we are going to see the possibility of negative rates. We are, as you can see, seeing a big bid for the yen as well. Dollar is down. Stoxx 600 is low. S p absolutely flat. Kailey i want to bring you news. Mgm resorts, the casino operator, is cutting 18,000 jobs. That cut impacts over one quarter of its u. S. Workforce. It has been a hard time for casinos during this pandemic. Mgm operates not just in the u. S. , the las vegas strip, but also in macau. All macau travel was shut down, they have yet to catch up. Las vegas market makes up half its revenue. Mgm cutting 18,000 jobs. At the moment, the stock is higher by about 4 . Guy back to that story relating to the bank of england. Governor Andy Beshear Lee says there is plenty of room for more monetary stimulus. He spoke at the feds virtual jackson hole event earlier. He talked about what is in the box. We are not out of firepower by any m