Suzanne it is a pleasure to welcome you here today to our conversation on Foreign Policy and the u. S. President ial election. This event is part of the brookings policy 2020 series which seeks to empower voters with factbased, datadriven, nonpartisan information to better understand the policy matters discussed by candidates running for office this year. Thank you all for joining us. We are 29 days away from november 3. Americans will cast their ballots for the next president , but the future of americas global role is also at the ballot. Looking toward the election, todays conversation will focus in particular on its implications for the transatlantic relationship and u. S. Foreign policy toward europe. European leaders and many of their counterparts around the world are watching the election closely. While there are differing views about how the upcoming november election will shape the relationship, few in europe believe it will revert to its previous form. With polling from the Eu
A refugee rescue boat and the tributes pouring american Actor Chadwick Boseman who has died off to a 4 year battle with cancer it was 43. Bozeman including formula one champion. The difficulties latest poll position for the inspirational arts. Hello welcome to the news hour our top story thousands of women of marched in baton rouge to denounce state violence against protesters since a president ial vote 3 weeks ago theres been a crackdown on Peaceful Demonstrations they have also been hundreds of arrests and as mounting evidence of torture and treatment in Detention Centers now the authorities have started withdrawing accreditation from journalists with some of them expelled on saturday but it smith reports now from neighboring lithuania. The triangle looks like a crackdown on dissent in belarus these women chanting we wont forget we wont forgive a part of what they call a peacekeeping force designed to stop the intimidation of peaceful protests thousands marched in the capital minsk s
Ceo bristow, they were gold is super outspoken, so always fun to talk to him. For more on the stimulus measures, lets talk to greg valliere. Your take on the executive order that trump issued, where that leaves stimulus conversations in the u. S. Greg the talks are dead, maybe a resumption later in the week. About whetherions the states can contribute to this, whether it is legal. The legal fight could drag on for a while. Democrats and others feel trapped right now. They cannot be portrayed as suing to stop aid to people, so all parties have a reason to resume the talks. Guy did nancy pelosi make a mistake . She has a reputation for being a good negotiator. How did she end up putting herself into a corner like this, do you think . May fore had a bill in 3. 6 trillion. I think she overreached. I think she didnt realize trump would try to do something through executive action. Now she is in a bind because if she sues, those people will be portrayed poorly. She may not have calculated ve
To break trump has yet the stimulus long gem. Softbank backs the virus handed record losses in may at a drop of the value, some may change with earnings later. Lets get a quick check of how the markets are trading. We are seeing u. S. Futures under a little bit of pressure, down 1 10 of 1 . We have President Trumps executive actions on stimulus measures boosting sentiment. That weighed in indices. The s p 500 saw the highest close in sixmonth in the longest winning streak since 2017. Aska futures at the moment japan comes back from mountain day holiday. I mentioned softbank earnings coming back later. The japanese yen Holding Around the weakest in more than two weeks. The bloomberg dollar index unchanged at the moment. This after it touched a oneweek high. Watch out for some data this morning. We are getting south koreas 10 day trade data. We are getting japan numbers, not to mention singapores final gdp numbers. Crude headed towards 42 a barrel after gaining the most in a week after s
A lot of the focus is on oil, a lot of the focus on what we heard from bp. Lets get a data check. European stocks really fluctuating, failing to Carry Forward the momentum that we saw. Yesterday, we had a technology fueled rally, which got support from positive Economic Data and potential further stimulus. Today, things seem to be going a bit sideways. Treasuries maintaining some of the losses. You can see european stocks down some 0. 5 . Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Tiktok has to sell its u. S. Arm by september 15 or close. That is according to president donald trump. He says he does not care who buys it, microsoft or another firm, as long as it is a big, secure american company. The president also says any sale would have to include a substantial payment to the u. S. Government. Victoria imposing a fine for anyone who violates isolation rules. Fines could be around 3. 5 thousand u. S. Dollars. Repeat offenders may see a penalty of around four times as much. Vic