Prime minister johnson born the house of commons the number of deaths could be twice as high as the first wave in the spring if National Action is not taken. Pubs, gyms, and nonessential shops will close for four weeks under the plan, which is subject to parliamentary approval. Hurricane zeta, which tore through this out last week, may point 4 insurers four billion. The damage was mostly from wind and storm surges. The storm affected nine u. S. States. The biggest losses were in louisiana, mississippi, and georgia. Formedrricane zeta has in the caribbean sea. It will bring heavy rain and wind and storm surge to central america. Global news 24 hours a day, onair, and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Im Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. Vonnie it is 1 00 p. M. In new york, 5 00 p. M. In london, and 2 00 a. M. In hong kong. Im vonnie quinn. Welcome to bloomberg markets. Here are the top stories we are following on th
Call it a 25 million what if why new comments from President Trump have the media folks getting social media on their side over exxon. And later on, steal a xwas gebaa taco why fans have a new reason to tune into the world series and why prices are sky high for the seats. It is thus, octobuesday, octobe this is boais worldwide exchan got too much time on my hands all right, good morning, good afternoon, good evening from wherever you may be im Brian Sullivan throwing out a little styx and here is another song quote see if you get it. 2020 24 hours to go and maybe the markets want to be sedated that after yesterdays 400 point haircut for the dow and 1. 5 drop on the nasdaq the markets nervous about the nancy pelosi imposed stimulus deadline in 24 hours and maybe also starting to think about much higher taxes if we see a blue sweep but right now, the futures are reversing just a bit not indicating that they will gain back what we lost, but dow futures are up 150 and of course context alw
Swan number three, hurricane zeta. We will show you exactly where it is right now and how its crushing oil, natural gas and energy stocks. At its lows the Dow Jones Industrials had fallen 908 points. So when you combine that with the previous two days, thats a drop of more than 1700 points. The s p 500 and the nasdaq are also struggling hard right now. We have the s p down 94, the nasdaq down 332. Look, now we see octobers gains wiped out for those two indices and oil getting crushed in the aftermarket session, down 5. 25 . We are now at 37. 51 a barrel. This is not helping, either. Three tech giants, facebook, twitter, alphabet google, adding to the nasdaqs woes. Their shares hammered as their ceos faced congressional scrutiny from both sides of the aisle during a very contentious hearing on capitol hill. We are about to show you the key moments and then our tech panel, top guys in the industry, will translate what it might mean for the stocks. Will the renewed lockdowns invite a supp
In a single session. Its worst ever single day. British drug giant astrazeneca halts the trial for safety review after an illness during its test. And British Airlines shares open lower ragging on the travel sector. A ton of Market Action here in europe. Lets look at how the markets are opening in the session a rebound coming together. Yesterday, the main benchmark dropped to 1. 61 in italian and french stocks. The market up and the cac 40 up 0. 7 initially, there was signs of trading coming through in the early moments on the back of this news late yesterday that they have halted their trials as one participant in the trial has fallen ill not enough to get the market down we are seeing positive momentum now. Lets look at positive sectors we have oil and gas up, telecom up and we saw the Oil Price Plunge wti falling 7. 6 brent down and we are seeing a bounce now utilities and majors are the best market. We have travel and leisure taking the biggest hit down 4. 4 we have a few stories c
Brutality surface across the defund the police intensify. What they could mean for Law Enforcement as we know it. President trump slams calls to defund police. There wont be defunding. There wont be dismantling of our police. Joe biden against it too as democrats unveil new proposals for police reform. One of the lawmakers behind the bill, senator Kamala Harris, joins us live. Coronavirus crisis. The frightening surging caserld high while cases spike in at least 20 states. Hospitals buckling in arizona. The new concerns as the country reopens. Slams him saying he is not cooperating in its Jeffrey Epstein investigation. Will the royal be forced to testify . Two storms combine on a collision course for the midwest after wreaking havoc in the south. The remains of cristobal on the move north to merge with a new storm system bringing threats for tornadoes to the midwest. Moinang the tributes pouring in for the grammy winner and one of the founding members of the pointer sisters. We remembe