Washington journal program. Cspan, created by americas Cable Television companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Secretary of state mike pompeo appeared today before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to testify about his 2021 budget requested. He was asked about President Trumps tweet about delaying the president ial election. From earlier today, this is just shy of three hours. The committee will come to order. Good morning, everyone. Today we have with us secretary of state mike pompeo to discuss the state departments fiscal year 2021 budget request. Though, if history is any judge, secretary pompeo, you will face a wide variety of questions which i know you can handle. The United States and our allies and partners continue to face serious foreign challenges that will test us for decades to come. China is our chief competitor. Russia too remains a key advair. The efforts of these nations to sow discord and undue the free and open Intern
It is still on. President trump insists a phase one trade agreement with china is fully intact. Peter navarro claims his earlier comments were taken out of context after suggesting the deal was over. The European Commission is more confrontational. E. U. Lash out at beijing over hong kongs autonomy, disinformation, and foreign investor meant foreign investment. We are in brussels. Hard times for softbank. The Company Sells part of its tmobile stake, creating 21 billion dollars to help offset record losses in its investment business. We will have the details for you briefly. Just under one hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe. Lets take a look at futures this morning after we closed down yesterday in the u. S. And the u. S. Managed to eek out some gains. They are trading solidly higher. Dax futures are up. 6 percent. Ftse futures up about. 25 . What do you see on the gmm . Anna we have certainly been whipsawed by those comments by Peter Navarro on trade and the abil
Banks face. I do want to point out, governor bailey of the bank of england writing an important essay for Bloomberg News today. That will be a point of discussion as well. This,bramowicz, i look at the reopening of new york city. I am going to be at lunch on the sidewalk today at 12 00 noon. How are you going to celebrate the reopening of this great city . Lisa i have no doubt you will be there. Beefully i will also out. I love how restaurants are blocking up streets and sidewalks to expand their seating. You can feel the energy starting to come back. Theres a question, how many people will come back . Sayingll street journal only 10 to 20 of Office Workers are expected to get back to their desks today. I just struggle to understand how people will get back in, public transportation, as well as the willingness to leave their homes while we still have a great deal of uncertainty around the virus. Tom it has been an upanddown path. We know the leadership of Governor Cuomo and mayor de bl
At the same time, it is authorizing sanctions against chinese officials. We will be live with reaction from the forbidden city. European futures prove their resilience after a more mixed session in asia. Angela merkel says it may take time to iron out the details of eus mammoth stimulus package. And lufthansa sets up a showdown with the eu by holding off on a vote for its 9 billioneuro german rescue plan. Cites requirements over landing slots at key hubs. Just under an hour from the start of cash equity trading. Lets look at futures. Instituteat the ifo expects german gdp to shrink 6. 6 in 2020 and then expand 10. 2 in the year after. That is a pretty decent sized contraction, and yet futures are Still Holding higher. Futures up 1. 3 on the dax. It has been a Pretty Amazing week for the dax index. We kicked off up 304 points in change and were up more than 100 tuesday and 150 yesterday. The dax has gained a lot of basically to11,000 11,006 heard 50 yesterday 11,650 yesterday. S p and d
Of the mining, some of the oil and gas doing well today. Health care is the lead losing sector. We will talk about that with the devil, with the Telefonica Liberty deal. Brutalbank of england, a session being forecast. We apparently have an issue here in london with manipulating the turkish currency, according to the authorities. Local banks having interactions with a series of them. And the norwegians have cut rates down to zero. Down despiteking the krona is knocking down to 1. 96 . Earlier, Francine Lacqua speaking to bank of england governor Andrew Bailey about open it do qe for the bank of england open ended qe for the bank of england. Weve got a rapid expansion of stimulus, so we got a lot going on. We have already got a lot thats happened, and weve got quite a long way to go in terms of what weve announced. In terms of payments, we will be going until probably early july. The view we took is that although we said in the march report that we will obviously continue to support the