collateral damage to train the glued cut the crude. i am angie lau where it is just past noon. welcome to bloomberg markets middle east. one notable thing today is absolutely with the markets are doing, extending the rally. especially after the china trade data rolled through, we have exports, imports, both up and better than expected, surprised to the outside. on the other side, what is supporting the markets, trump. trillion, that is the number on my mind this morning. that is the market seeing this on this chart. fresh out of our bakery, this really tells the story of donald trump and the u.s. election. you are looking at the combined value. this is a month since the trunk win. trump win. a billion dollars into the market since december 6 november 6. said, they are extending record highs both from the s&p 500 and dow jones. bankshares, some of them at eight year highs. angie: it is, banking stocks rise for a third day. let s get a look at the markets. mumbai has been
leading republicans say they have the votes they need to get a new justice on the supreme court before election day. any moment now the u.s. will pass that horrifying mark, 200,000 dead americans from the coronavirus. in the last week more than half of u.s. states reported an increase of infections greater than the week before. johns hopkins university reports more than 6.8 million cases across the country. the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention is under fire for removing guidance from its website seemingly posted by mistake. officials say the move was not the result of political pressure but the back and forth is only adding to the confusion around how the virus can spread. the top u.s. infectious disease expert, dr. anthony fauci, says you can t look at a death toll that s close to 200,000 and say, that s terrific. still, president trump claims the u.s. is rounding the corner on the pandemic, but as athena jones shows us, that is not the case. we may be in
hello and welcome. i m kasia madera. the french president, emmanuel, macron has ordered a night time curfew for paris and eight other french cities to contain the rising spread of covid 19. speaking on french television in the last few hours, mr macron said, we have to act. we need to put a brake on the spread of the virus. in addition to paris, the measures apply to grenoble, lille, lyon, marseille, montpellier, rouen, saint etienne and toulouse. residents will be banned from going outdoors between 9pm to 6am, from saturday. france reported 22,591 new confirmed coronavirus cases on wednesday. and it s become the ninth country in the world to pass 33,000 deaths. this is president macron from that tv appearance just a few hours ago. translation: if during these six weeks we follow the curfew and act collectively to reduce the number of contacts, that s the point at which we think we can progressively start up again. dashed start to open up again. i m being very careful here
in new zealand jacinda ardern is re elected with a landslide victory for the ruling labour party victory for the ruling labour party. the coronavirus pandemic. she was widely praised for her handling of the coronavirus pandemic. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. france is in shock today after the murder of a teacher in the outskirts of paris in what president macron described as an islamist terror attack. the man was beheaded outside the school where earlier this month he had shown his pupils cartoons of the prophet mohammed during a discussion about freedom of expression. the killer an 18 year old of chechen origin was shot dead by police. nine people, including his parents, have been arrested. the french prime minister jean castex has tweeted that france will react with the greatest firmness, so that the republic and its citizens can live free . he s
a very warm welcome wherever you may be watching. in the united states, more than 8 million americans have now fallen victim to the coronavirus since the pandemic began. that s one-fifth of the world s cases and 1 million more than just three weeks ago. take a look at this. more than 132,000 cases were confirmed in the past two days. it is an alarming rate of infection. hospitals in seven states are reporting record numbers of covid cases. but u.s. president trump now apparently recovered from his own bout is insisting the virus has turned the corner. at least one vaccine might be ready by late november. but as the head of the national institutes of health said, it is a big if. i m still pretty guardedly optimistic that by the end of the year we ll have one or more vaccines that is safe and effective, and we can start distributing it, but even that is not a guarantee. s this is a very complicated science. nearly all polls show president trump trailing his opponent, joe bi