Crude down by 6 10 of 1 . Pretty weighty session. Itll waiting to see whether is a go away type trade. Latest to suspend guidance on a lack of charity and visibility. The s p is down two thirds of 1 . Obviously, stocks that are moving the most to the downside are the airlines after Warren Buffetts comments. You can see the Airline Index down 9 . That is weighing on the dow as well. The dollar index is a bright spot. It is continuing to strengthen. In theil is still 19 20 range. Guy absolutely. Lets talk a bit about what has been happening in europe. The latest manufacturing pmi data was horrible. As expected. Outputs, new orders, exports, sales, all full. Down to record rates. Coming from a ruling from germanys courts to the bond buying program. There is some good news. We are starting to see economic reopening spirit spain guy spain starting to relax its lockdowns. Lets talk about where things are going to go and what week we are likely to have here in europe. Callum, the data are rea
Introduce sabine weyand, who is the new director general for trade in the e. U. In that you commission. She took over the position a month ago and this is her first visit in washington. Csis is happy to have her here to make some open remarks, then she and i will have a conversation that will touch on a number of issues. Then we will open it up for your questions. Dr. Weyand for trade. Prior for this, she was the deputy chief resident negotiator for two and a half years, which had to the one of the difficult jobs in the e. U. I told her that if we invite her back a year from now, we will ask her who was harder to negotiate with, the british or the americans. I am sure we would get a polite answer, but, she has a history in a number of positions of significance inside the european commission. As i said earlier, one of my personal favorites is before she was a brexit deputy, she was Deputy Director general of trade. Those of you who are european know exactly what that means and how impor
Questions. Land for trade. Prior for this, she was the deputy chief resident negotiator for two and a half years, which had to the one of the difficult jobs in the e. U. I told her that if we invite her back a year from now, we will ask her who was harder to negotiate with, the british or the americans. I am sure we would get a polite historybut, she has a in a number of positions of significance inside the european commission. As i said earlier, one of my personal favorites is before she was a brexit deputy, she was Deputy Director general of trade. Those of you who are european command, know exactly what that means and how important it is. I have no clue, but it certainly sounds impressive. She has numerous positions going back more than 20 years with the commission. She has a doctorate in political science, her phd thesis was on the, transport policy, a study in au policymaking, and she also studied political science, economics, literature and linguistics at Freiburg University in g
Big news on the russia channel, Tatyana Remizova in the studio and the main topics of this saturday in our issue. This evening , candidates for ministerial positions in the new government became known. The ministry of energy, the ministry of industry and trade, the ministry of transport, the ministry of agriculture and the ministry of sports can receive new leaders. How will the composition of deputy Prime Ministers change and who will take the post of first deputy. From where the shelling of belgorod was carried out. 10 years referendum on the independence of the donetsk and lugansk peoples republics. Russia, how universities, factories and mines live and work today. The driver was conscious and insists that the brakes were faulty, as evidenced by footage from the bus cabin at the moment it fell into the river wash. The us is quadrupling import duties on chinese electric vehicles. Cars will become twice as expensive. Beijing may retaliate against the shanghai plant of american fuel ce
This is bbc news. Im sophie raworth. The headlines at 4. 30. The number of people whove died with coronavirus in care homes in england is thought to have doubled in five days figures suggest more than 2,000 have lost their lives. There have been 759 new recorded uk coronavirus deaths in hospitals it brings the total death toll to 18,100. In the first ever virtual Prime Ministers questions, the new labour leader strongly criticises the government over a lack of testing and supply of Personal Protective Equipment. Something is going wrong, there is a pattern emerging here. We were slow into lockdown, slow on testing, slow on protective equipment. I dont accept his premise that we have been slow. We have been guided
by the scientific advice, the chief scientific adviser, the chief medical officer, at every step along this way. Borisjohnson is expected to speak to the queen this evening by phone. A number 10 spokesman said he watched Prime Ministers questions from chequers, but that he isn