Protests hammer u. S. Cities nationwide for a seventh straight night. President trump threatens to deploy the military to end what he calls the lawlessness in the streets. U. S. Futures slipped as new york goes under curfew for the first time in over 70 years. As we pointing higher said. The u. K. Virus infection rate falling to its lowest since march. And a second wave of stimulus cannot hurt. Angela merkel looks to broker a deal on a stimulus package with 100 billion euros here as the u. K. Chancellor plans to prepares plans to bolster growth after Emergency Support is withdrawn there. We are just under one hour away from the cash equity trade here across europe. Lets take a look at futures, keeping in mind that the german dax was closed yesterday. It is up about. 5 in terms of futures. Euro stoxx 50 futures, the 6 . Chmark up. Ftse futures up. 4 . They have been positive just about one hour ago, at least partially. Now mastec futures are still keeping their heads above water. We are
Stoxx 600 at a record high. On top of that encouraging news out of china. The pound, 1. 3363, getting a little bit of data with manufacturing. 45. 9 but it is still also indicating contraction. Lets take a look at a share price of electoral a come of , those are down. Mark carney will present the financial report. Thats from 5 00 p. M. London time and we should be a week away from the nomination of the new bank of england governor. Lets get straight to bloomberg first word news in new york city. Boris johnson will appoint new ministers to his cabinet after his landslide victory in the u. K. Election. The Prime Minister will welcome 109 new conservative members of parliament to london. They will take their seats in the house of commons. Downing street saying the government will introduce a law to deliver brexit before christmas. That will pave the way for the eu divorce and take place by the end of january. The International Effort to rein in fossil fuel pollution stumbling after u. S.