It feels like a long week but second week of september. European stocks are prep flat. We had a mixed week overall. There have been concerns over evaluations in some pockets of the market, global and technology stuff and then the other big question is what happens to euro . Christine lagarde delivered relatively mild comments on the currency surge. And headed for the biggest weekly drop since march. Lets get to bloomberg first word. Europe has overtaken the u. S. In terms of coronavirus infections. The e. U. , norway, iceland and lichtenstein reported more than 27,000 cases on wednesday compared to 26,000 in the u. S. The region has remerged as a global hot spot after bringing the pandemic under control earlier in the year. The odds of another round of u. S. Fiscal stimulus has dropped. Senators dropped a republican proposal for slimmed down support in the region of 500 billion to 700 billion dollars. Temperatures are looking for temperatures are looking or 2. 2 trillion. The u. K. Eco
The other thing they are focused on is unemployment. The stimulus in europe and we wait to see what happens in the u. S. Alix the latest on twitter was gold or tesla reaches 2000. I covered gold back in the day and the coverage was google or gold at 2000. You dont want to miss this. His insight on u. S. And european equities as well as tesla. What you do before earnings . U. S. China tensions flaring up again. The u. S. Secretary of state mike pompeo spoke about the issue in remarks in copenhagen earlier today. We are setting clear expectations for how the Chinese Communist parties going to behave. When they dont, youre going to take actions that protect the american people. Alix joining us for more is kevin. What happens now . Are pushing back and they are saying in a statement from chinas foreign ministry, china condemns such an unjustified move which will sabotage chinau. S. Relations. Toy urge the United States withdraw its erroneous decision. Otherwise china will make necessary re
Provided and into the record to the conclusion of the hearing. I recognize myself for 5 minutes for Opening Statements. Let me find my Opening Statement here. I believe this hearing is long overdue. Suffering terrible inequalities. Unreliable access to the energy grid, little or no broadband connectivity, and reliable funds for the federal government and other systematic problems that created unnecessary hardship and turmoil and covid19 is exacerbating these long existing problems. One third of tribal members are at high risk of serious covid19 complications due to Underlying Health factors and Navajo Nation has seen higher infection rates than those in china at the peak of the pandemic. Despite this stark reality the impact of covid19 on tribal communities, weve seen the struggles of tribal communities and access to personal protective equipment and testing to protect against covid19. Is this pandemic redesign and covid19 cases continue to rise in many areas of the Country Access to p
Being pushed between them and the u. S. With a new cold war. Wang yi, the foreign minister , warned the u. S. Not to cross beijings redline on taiwan. In the u. K. , Oxford University has reportedly run into a hurdle are developing a coronavirus vaccine. According to the telegraph, a decline in infection rates may make it difficult to prove whether the vaccine is indeed successful. A is said that there is only 50 chance of coming up with an effective vaccine. Japan is issuing a state of instituting masses massive testing, but its death toll is far below 1000. Global news 24 hours a day, on air and at quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in im than 120 countries, leighann gerrans. This is bloomberg. Nejra . Nejra leanne, thank you so much. We are seeing clear risk on an todays session. Bear in mind that the holiday in the u. K. Of the u. S. Will be thinner liquidity, but even with the emergence of geopolitical risks with regard to hong kong, euros o
Expanding, we can make good decisions about how we use our limited resources to uphold the public good if were clear about our values and if we understand how to make the difficult trade offs. For me, i can promise to continue to update the public to be fully transparent and really to be brutally honest. This is going to be a really, really difficult two years. Perhaps unprecedented in the last 100 years. And the only way were going to get through this is by being honest, by being transparent, by engaging with the public and by coming back to our core values to make the tough choices. So thank you all for joining us. And well be back with more information as history unfolds. Thank you. And good bye. Roll call, please. Clerk all right. Ill go ahead and mention that director chang is sitting in as director haneys alternate. With that [roll call] clerk noting that director tavares is absent, with that, you have a quorum. Were going to change our agenda here in a little bit and start with