Do things we wouldnt normally do because we were threatened with being destroyed on a bill to work and we have become a way that we are just a pile of misery. The Protester Attacks police in new york during a march against gun crime several officers are injured including a police chief there earlier knelt in Sole Authority block lives matter. A warm welcome to our to international my names you know me 30 minutes of news and views start. The British Foreign secretary has accused russia of meddling in the countrys general election last year by leaking classified documents earlier. Joins me here in the studio to discuss developments. Well 2020 has been a fairly unprecedented yes so far but apparently theres now one constant to not is russian interference in a lot its a parliament the u. K. Foreign secretary dominic robb a power 8 concluded that the 2019 general election wasnt purely the democratic will of the people in action the government has concluded that it is almost certain that rus
Bloomberg television and bloomberg radio. Morning across this nation. All of you working at home, and good morning around the world, particularly in liver, great written Great Britain in liverpool, Great Britain. I want to get to the pandemic in a moment, but in Francine Lacqua conversation, i dont know if they brought of negative rates. Do you see negative rates in the United Kingdom . Jonathan if they couldnt negative Interest Rates, it will be up to the bank, not rishi sunak. And i hope it does not happen. Some policymakers have flirted with the idea over the last liverpool,ks area on saymichele texted me to hes very happy that his dear livable that his dear liverpool are now the champions in the merely. Cash in the premier league. Tom that gets us to the story of the moment, which is the pandemic area i was fascinated by the images in the telegraph in the times. Explain to us the oddity of seeing absolutely packed beaches in the United Kingdom, much like what we saw in florida. Jon
Worldwide trade has been slashed. Postnba future, we will hear from lebron james. Feeling more risk as we head into the last trading session of the week for asia. Lasttrading flat after the halfhour of frenzied gains, s p 500 up 20 loss in the previous session. Nikkei futures at the moment looking flat. Dollaryen holding at 107. Gainingg dollar index with the exception of the kiwi and aussie dollar. It feels like we will see modest over in spite of concerns increased virus numbers, particularly in the u. S. And globally we are averaging 150,000 new cases per day. The underscores uncertainty. The senate in the u. S. Approving a bipartisan bill that would limit banks doing business with chinese officials involved in hong kong. Tom mackenzie is in beijing. It still has to be signed into law. Given unanimous consent, how likely is it this will be enacted . Tom very likely at this stage. It has bipartisan support in the house and it has been signed off in the senate. It will end up on trump
15. 7 . Sort of a proxy, this is old data a week older than the other data for the Unemployment Rate looking at the chart you can see it coming down tick by tick but leveling off and well hope it keeps coming down in the weeks ahead. Lets look at the states with most claims. California, 28 , michigan 23 of those who are insured or eligible for Unemployment Insurance getting that insurance there, down to rhode island at 28 . Look at the states with the fewest claims, two stories going on here, one, some states not that hard hit, perhaps nebraska, likely wyoming, but look at the right, florida, again, thats a Big National Story here. The percentage of floridians who are receiving benefits being so small because of their problems with their computer systems, just 5. 2 . Now the fed out with a survey of Household Economic developments and they did a supplement for april just to try to get the recent data. They found 90 of households report either a lost job or reduced hours but 90 on the l
Businesses across the whole economy. Australias pension faces rising outflows as people are allowed to tap Retirement Funds to weather the fallout from the pandemic. Shery happening right now, President Trump speaking at the white house, saying that new infections remain flat across the u. S. Take a listen. Pres. Trump so we have nobody died and i said china, you cannot come in, sorry, because i saw what was going on. It was not so much what i was told, it was that i saw what was going on and i didnt like it. But, i didnt speak to tony about it. I didnt speak to very many people about it. What did i do . Ready . January 31, in the United States, not one person had died because of the, again, the wuhan virus. So, i issue travel restrictions on that date even though nobody died. I got brutalized over it by the press because i was way too early. I should not have done it. Brutalized by the press. I have been brutalized for the past four years. I used to do well before i decided to run for