Surveillance. Im Francine Lacqua. The markets has been trading volumes because it is august and a lot of people are still off or trading less than in the past. This is what we are looking at. If you look at the european stoxx 600. They are trading sideways. Is. Futures and gold bouncing back. The trumpet administration stoked tensions with beijing by imposing new restrictions on mayei technology which be giving some of a breather. Advancing and gold climbing back above 2000 an ounce. Lets get the latest. The race to acquire tiktok is ramping up after President Trump signed an executive order on friday forcing bytedance to sell its business within 90 days. Oracle is said to be considering a bid. Its entry could challenge microsofts bargaining position. For more on this, thats get to alex webb. Thank you for joining us. When you look at this race, is it oracle and someone elsem and microsoft, or is it just going to be the two . Alex it seems as though oracle firms,roached some other Vent
Stayathome to save the birds of london. That is a good thing to say. It is the strangest august, and the only litmus paper youve got right now is the weaker dollar, the preponderant trend this morning. Francine yeah, weaker dollar. Im also looking at a couple things. When it looks at iron ore, it is significantly up, and we are looking at gold. First lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika Michelle Obama describes President Trump as unfit for office on the Opening Night of the democratic convention. The former first lady blasted him from his handling the pandemic. Worthen 150,000 people have died, and our more than 150,000 people have died, and our economy is in shambles because of a virus that this president downplayed for too long. Trump isbama said that clearly in over his head. President trump added a trip to iowa to his schedule today. Support has been slipping in a state that he won in nine Percentage Points in 2016. Polls sho
Obama. Plans. Adens we will bring you our interview with the ceo. Asian stocks edge higher after break a500 fails to record at the close. European futures point to a negative just over an hour away from cash trading in europe. Atures suggest we could see lupita of ever treat a little bit of a retreat. They just went up for the morning. We were flat and positive across europe. , we faileded states to make a new high at the close even though we traded above those february high levels. There, wouldd got there have been the breadth to make it mean that much . We have gothe gmm, south korea, closed yesterday. Broadly speaking, we are flat and positive across the asian equity segment. Drift, whether it is asian stocks, u. S. Futures. The dollar is drifting. Making some moves to the downside. Treasuries a little higher, yields come down. Still questions around u. S. Stimulus, an unanswered question for Global Equity markets. Some breaking news across the bloomberg. Persimmong sector, saying f
Coming up, we will be talking with curtis johnson, the managing director at carlisle. Talking about what trying toericans face break into the industry. Bank and tesla are surprising reporting surprising numbers. Our guest is joining us from italy. Your metrics are strong. Been notrating has it being able to get back to shareholders because of ecb guidance . [indiscernible] the expectation is the end of december to be able to pay dividends again. A fourth quarter, are you confident you will pay dividends and about buybacks . X part of the priority. Buybacks are not a priority. [indiscernible] been inas the economy july and what are economists telling you about their mood for the future . [indiscernible] in 2021, the growth in gdp could be higher than 5 . [indiscernible] the positive trend will be in 2021 and my expectation. To take a quick break to make sure we hear you perfectly so we dont miss a word you say. We love working from home. We will get back on the interview once we fix the
I am just enjoying the show. Thank you very much, everybody. We have some very interesting news. , a corrupt fbih attorney who falsified fisa comeys in james corrupt fbi is expected to plead guilty. You probably heard that. It just came out. That is just the beginning i would imagine because what happened should never happen again. He is pleading guilty. Its a terrible thing. Is, they spied on my campaign and they got caught. You will be hearing more. Today, the office of trade and anufacturing policy released new report on how my administration has harnessed the full power of the defense production act to achieve the greatest industrial mobilization since world war ii. China fight against the virus. New factories, businesses, and laboratories are being built to ,atch our demand for ppe pharmaceuticals, drugs, testing supplies, therapeutics and vaccines. Wehas been incredible what have been able to do in a short time. We are helping other countries also because we have been doing it at