A fast so despite threats of violence and the big tech investment that greece is banking on to reboot its economy in sport, the match up for the last mens tennis final of the year has an unfamiliar look. Not a joke of it should rafael nadal both be knocked out of the a. T. P. Finals. Ethiopian Government Forces are pushing ahead with their advance on the capital city of the northern take grey region. They say they plan to encircle its capital mechanic with tanks and seize it. Its under control of the tikrit Peoples Liberation front. Reuters news agency is reporting the t. P. R. Left is standing firm. Its destroyed, roads and bridges to slow any government offensive. Fighting has forced people to flee for safety. More than 30000. 00 refugees have crossed the border into sudan. Im about, oh, isnt that a stab . Or he says the plot, the plans to surround mcalary seem very advanced. The Government Forces idea yet to reach the outskirts of the city of mccullough couple of the to grow region.
The bill awaits signoff from the president. Akron turns up the heat. France threatens to veto a brexit deal if it does not like the terms, piling pressure on the e. U. Not to make further concessions. Welcome to the program, everybody. 7 00 in london. 8 00 in paris. Lets look at the futures. We are fairly flat on futures. The young stock x50 futures flat. Yesterday, we saw some decent gains for the ftse, up by more than 1 and that was a standout compared to the rest of europe which was more mixed. It was mixed in the u. S. Session as well. We did actually see a bit of a late rally in u. S. Equity trading, up to some of those new highs we were talking about in headlines. All of that in the context of the hopes and dreams around u. S. Stimulus. The concern about what can legitimately be done in the shortterm and a lot of hope around vaccines. Perhaps oncent day some parts of the equities space and a late rally in the u. S. Yesterday and we are now pausing. We are pausing somewhat here. W
Never before has that enduring promise of protection stability and opportunity mean more important than it is today allow me to explain why. First europe must come to new to protect lives and livelihoods this is all the more important in the middle of a pandemic that shows no sign of running out of steam or intensity we know how quickly numbers can spiral out of control so we must continue to handle this fantastic pandemic with extreme care responsibility and unity in the last 6 months. Our Health Systems and workers have produced miracles every country has worked to do its best for its citizens. And europe has done more to gether than ever before. When the Member States closed borders we created green lanes for goods when more than 600000 european citizens were stranded all over the world the e. U. Brought them back home when some countries introduced export bands for critical medical goods we stopped that and ensure that critical medical goods should go where it was needed we worked
As we await clarity from jay powell in the new inflation policy. Ray dalio says fiscal and monetary injections have put the dollar under threat. Johnson revolt, boris reaches out to rebels in his own party to gain support for his plan to override the brexit deal he struck with the eu. Ftse futures are underperforming. Facebook versus the ftc, u. S. Authorities are preparing a possible antitrust lawsuit against the social network. Kim kardashian urges her 188 million instagram followers to freeze their facebook accounts. We have breaking news in the form of earnings coming across the ticker. Thespanish giant hosting of 8 billiones euros. Net sales a little more than 8 billion euros. We were expecting a net loss in the first half. Euros in 195 million terms of earnings before interest and taxes. There was a loss there also, 198 Million Euros, but it did have a positive earnings before interest taxes depreciation of 1. 4 9 billion euros. We will bring you any breaking news. Remember yeste
Have learned during the crisis to better prepare for pandemic or other biological events of this scale in the future. Folks of todays hearing is the Strategic National stockpile. First established with a 51,000 appropriation in 1958, the sns was codified in 2002 and obtained its current name with an expanded mission in 2003. Over the years, management responsibility for the sns has changed between different agencies within hhs and dhs. In developing a plan for this committees oversight for the federal governments response to the coronavirus, the role of the Strategic National stockpile was an obvious area of interest, as is the vulnerability of our supply chain and theyre very interrelated. I assume that staff would be able to quickly obtain the list of items that should be held together with required and actual inventory levels of each item. Once again, i learned it is dangerous to assume. We quickly found out that those lists do not exist or certainly are not made available to congre