First wave of the coronavirus pandemic. Austria is doing well as well. Are seeing the dollar at levels that we have not seen for Something Like two years. The falls in the dollar taking place overnight. Yenre seeing the japanese clamber up as well, reaching the 104 level. 103 yen. Terry gou. That is the current position. Kong is declining just a fraction at the moment. That is where we are without one. That is where markets are standing. Haslinda. Lets get back to our top story. President trump has attacked the credibility of the election, challenging counts and nevada, pennsylvania, georgia, and michigan. Speaking at the white house, the president made several claims and said that the election is being stolen from him. We will not allow the corruption to still this election or any election in that matter. We cannot allow anyone to silence our voters. Haslinda joe biden is urging patience and saying that he is no doubt heading to victory, in an election that hinges on seven states. Mr.
Have to believe in some ways it is being managed. August, but inng no way is the dollar reverting. It gets overplayed by the media. 1. 19. Ere it is, now 1. 1839. Francine the fact that you call this a boring august, i dont know what an exciting august looks like for you. We have turkey, the markets, trade. Your bar for an exciting august is high. Always exciting news. Here is with. Haska Kamala Harris accepted the nomination to run for Vice President with joe budden. Harris told the Party Convention that President Trumps failure of leadership has cost lives and livelihoods. Kamala lets fight with conviction. Lets fight with hope. Lets fight with confidence in ourselves and a commitment to each other. To the america we know is possible. The america we love. The political fight over the post office make clear the way for congress to resume talks on a virus relief bill. Democratic and Republican Leaders are hinting at potential compromises. The white house says it is open to democrats de
Working on holiday. When you look at the markets, they are probably range bound and that is where the nudgyness comes from. We have earnings in europe that will give insight and you have the spat between the u. S. And china, which is significant but is not translating into concrete market movement. Tom we will talk about china and a moment. Airlines front and center. Right now, with our first word news, here is ritika gupta. Ritika china may retaliate for the closing of its consulate in houston by targeting the u. S. Consulate in hong kong. That is according to the editor of the Chinese Communist party newspaper, global times. He writes the u. S. Has over 1000 staff and that means it is a spy center. The editors comments have regally been a tipoff to what the government does. They Trump Administration says republicans are considering a shortterm extension of the unemployment stimulus. Millions of americans received several mental payments that were included in the last coronavirus resc
Fed set 2022 and what the chairman will say and what i assume will be a Virtual Press conference today. Ofncine we will have plenty market action. We will look at the markets every 15 minutes, including what is happening in treasuries. We had the oecd coming out with their economic outlook. That was released about an hour ago, and the oecd, it is a smarter way of doing it, tom. Forecasting the pandemic would cause a Global Economic slump of 6 here, but if there is a second wave, that becomes a seven point 6 slump. It is a good way of visualizing percent comes a 7. 6 slump. By thewas taken aback differentials between the bar charts of europe and the United States. I did not have in my head how much worse the guesstimate is for gdp decline in the europe verses in the u. S. It is a very good report. Francine it is also because of where europe was in the economic cycle. Lets get straight to first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika good morning. A warning from jeffrey gund
What will be watch . We will watch wage growth. Good morning, this is bloomberg surveillance. Guy johnson is with us. There is a really dramatic photo of a helicopter dropping down on a cruise ship. What is the mood in the london weekend . Guy the mood is everyone is trying to figure who has what. We dont have enough test kits. Knowledge as to wether or not this is spreading quickly, slowly, how we people have it. It does not exist right now. Tom i believe it would be called unknownunknown. Screens tothree data start things off. With our first word news, here is viviana hurtado. Viviana we begin with the coronavirus. Almost 100,000 coronavirus cases have been diagnosed globally. The majority in china. Beijing reporting the number of new cases and deaths are falling. The u. S. Outbreak is getting larger. There have been more than 130 cases reported and at least 11 desperate there is a key to wether the Central Banks cut rates again. This from robert kaplan. He is looking at how fast the