Everyone is safeguarded and is as safe as possible. But again, there are different rules in england, if you are in scotland, in wales. That of people are saying it is confusing. The bigger thing is that there is not a rebellion inside the tory party about some of the extra things put in place, on the fact that the Prime Minister is gaining too much power. Debate. Big story is the ruining beauty rest. Right now, your first word news, ritika gupta. Ritika President Trump and joe biden will go headtohead for the first time in the president ial debate in cleveland tonight. The president unwittingly has n,ne a big favor to bide lowering expectations. He has painted biden as sleepy, which we have lowered expectations for menu have not seen him since the democratic convention. And a scaledback 2. 2 trillion proposal has been the legislation is designed to move along talks between House Speaker nancy pelosi and secretary of the treasury steven mnuchin. More details coming up from the New York
Tuscany. Off, somewhere outside toledo. So Francine Lacqua joins us. That is not toledo, spain. Outside toledo, ohio somewhere. I want to get to the data in a moment, with markets moving. Futures 21. I would say this has really this is really jump circuit by the french pmi numbers. Why was this a surprise . Francine i was reading the breakdown. The sharp slowdown is basically driven by services. It shows that the escape from recession wont be flailing like some economists thought. Guess it is partly seasonal i would also point to the fact that infections are rising quite significantly, especially in france, germany, and other countries. Leaders are saying they dont want to go back into lockdown, especially when you look at these pretty terrible numbers in terms of many factoring pmi, but also services pmi. It might also be difficult not to preimpose measures if the number of people getting infected does rise. So it will be a complicated quarter going into the winter months. Tom a massi
Conversation. You just heard steven major of hsbc with his terrific call, persistent call for lower interest rates. , we wills in moments speak about the Research Notes of last summer, ages ago when things were calm on a vector of lower interest rates. We will get an update and look to the market, to hong kong, and to our conversation with john bolton in 30 minutes. With the news breaking this morning, really must watch and must listen. You nailed this. Cacophony has never been seen before. I think it will be really difficult as the quarter grows older and you get the handoff from the balance of reopening the economy and the realization that the recovery will take a long time. Then we get bumped up against the election in november. Thee the president exits in senate flips as well. The market has a lot more in the last couple of weeks. Tom no question. Based on the emails ive gotten of the supporters of the president really pushing back against the new belief in president biden. Part of
Second half of 2020, there is an overlay of other stories. The pandemic story, at least in the United States, is truly front and center. I would also note the stunning close to equity markets yesterday. Call it window dressing on june 30, 2020, but we begin this july strong in the markets. Francine we certainly do. If you look at what the markets are looking at, and a lot of the focus is on the number of infections, treasuries slipping, and i am looking at a couple of Technical Glitches in europe affecting trading. We will have a full market roundup, but lets get to first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika good morning. Infectious diseases chief Anthony Fauci warns the u. S. Is going in the wrong direction. He said the country could see 100,000 new coronavirus cases a day, up from the current level of 40,000. Several southern and western states are seeing increases in infections, prompting some to put reopening plans on hold. A new poll shows 10 lead, joe biden over p
Easing of lockdowns. Taylor i got him steven major you have thes massive helicopter money and stimulus but if the demand does not come back, he is more worried about disinflation, that made my ears perk up. Francine lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. The European Unions executive arm is coming out with its own stimulus package to deal with the regions worst economic emergency since world war ii and calls for spending 823 billion. Two thirds will be in the form of grants and the rest will be loans and funded by joint debt issuance. In hong kong, hundreds of protesters returned to the streets demonstrating against chinas plan to take more control of the city with National Security measures. Projectiles. Ired the u. S. Is thinking of ways to punish china for the hong kong crackdown and is weighing whether to declare the colony has lost autonomy from beijing. There could be visa restrictions for Chinese Communist party authorities. For the first time, twitter has added a f