Bill gates says the nations testing has mind blowing problems. A mediag Police Arrest tycoon and prodemocracy activist reportedly on allegations of foreign collusion. Nexts in his Media Group Digital slumped. Gone 6 00has just a. M. In london. Good to see you this morning. Names a ceo and president from november. He had previously served as the chief operating officer. He will take over on november 2 he did his first interview, fiveandahalf years, go to your bloomberg 6 returnelivered relative to peers of 6. 4 so a change at the stop on equinor. We will keep an eye on any more detail on that. Rump, turkey, tiktok i am on tiktok. I have sent something out on. Tiktok trump, turkey, tiktok, and trade. Im determined to boost my tiktok numbers. Nejra good morning. Ill add tech because tech lead a decline last week on friday with the confrontation with china being ramped up with the white house. I cant wait to see your tiktok account. Manus it is awful, dreadful. I havent worked it out yet.
Impact on Small Businesses is still unknown. Boris johnson announces a dramatic lifting of lockdown measures imposed in england as the u. K. s chief medical officer warns the virus will persist into 2021. Its just gone 6 00 a. M. In london, 7 00 a. M. In paris. This he question is why is Anthony Fauci talking about a disturbing surge . Are we preoccupied by the two magical words from Steve Mnuchin . We will exit the session at the end of the year, with 10 unemployment potentially. We are hanging our hats on the holy grail of hope, but the reality of real human hotspots in this covid crisis. Nejra yeah, absolutely. When you talk about the real human impact as well, yes, we look at the fact cases are surging in the transmission rate is actually above 1 according to some estimates. The real human impact is on jobs as well. There are really questions over when that support comes away in autumn, what that means for the jobs picture, not just for the u. S. But elsewhere as well. Manus no, yo
And President Trump does not want to talk to president xi. The highestcords number of deaths in a week. And we have the gdp data from germany. Welcome to daybreak europe and welcome to friday after a rocky week in the market. On thee bit of green screen coming through from asia. Yesterday there was a rally on wall street. Initially, u. S. Stocks dropped after jobless claims again but we got a rally. Making a comeback. The gap between tech stocks and banks getting to an extreme level. Utures, a mix for europe, right on the screen yesterday. European futures up 1 ahead of the german gdp data looking to post the worst contraction for germany since 2009. 10 year yield dropping about eight basis points through the week. The dollar heads for a weekly aim speaking to risk off as well and oil heading for a third weekly gain as well. Some science the markets are slowly rebalancing. Kick off the latest development of the coronavirus with the global death toll exceeding 300,000. Cases fueled alar
Sanctions. Partslan to sell vehicle to help its turnaround and get back on track. It is also still looking for a new ceo. Shery lets check the markets. U. S. Futures unchanged at the moment. U. S. Stocks struggled throughout the session. S p 500 slumping after the fed rate decision. Markets taking it is a hawkish cut. In fact it did recover towards the end but it finished basically unchanged. We also had Energy Stocks dragging on the index. Crude falling for the last two sessions after that 15 gain we saw monday. At the moment unchanged, below 60 a barrel. Financials gaining ground today. We had yields plunging after the fed intervened and the repo markets injecting cash to soothe the money markets. That was paired back a little bit after the fed rate decision. 10yearold 10 year yield finishing around 1. 80. Paul some breaking news on the bloomberg terminal. The Hong Kong Monetary authority is cutting its base rate to 2. 25 . Pretty much as expected after the fed move today. So we have
Trumps tax cuts and those french elections. Riding the wave of the Foodie Revolution. Celebrity chef mark hix will be with us to talk, food, fads and investment. Today, we want to know is cash your king . A survey says a third of us would rather pay digitally, do you still carry cash or is contactless the future . Let us know. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Cash, rachel. Always carry that with you. I shouldnt say that. I dont have any cash on me shaking up the tax system has been a major theme of the trump administration. Today hes promising what he describes as A Big Announcement on his planned reforms. In fact, mr trump has already said hes planning what hes called maybe the biggest tax cut weve ever had. During the campaign he talked about cutting the top individual tax rate from 36. 9 to 25 . In terms of business, he wants to cut the Corporate Tax rate from 35 to 15 . Mr trump has also proposed charging american firms a one off tax ofjust 10 on money they bring back to the us fro