Due this autumn, will be painful because of what he called a black hole in the public finances, inherited from the previous administration. More than 3,500 current and former workers at next have won a six year legal battle for equal pay. An Employment Tribunal said store staff, who are predominantly women, should not have been paid at lower rates than employees in warehouses, where just over half the staff are male. Police in india have fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of protesters marching in the eastern city of kolkata. They are demanding the resignation of a state minister, following the rape and murder of a Junior Doctor at a City Hospital earlier this month. It is an extremely rare occurence that a Military Operation to free and rescue a hostage ends successfully. But the family of Qaid Farhan Alkadi, a 52 year old Bedoin Israeli abducted on october 7th, are celebrating tonight, after he was freed by israeli commandoes from a tunnel in Southern Gaza. Mr alkad
Next, a look into the future of the Transatlantic Alliance and natos role in securing ukraine and georgia. I am pleased we have the pleasure to welcome our panelists and viewers on both sides of the atlantic. Good morning. Greetings from brussels. Ukraineect of today, and nato, is something i would say is part of the dna. We have been working for many years now on georgia related issues. Supports fund that vaccines by addressing [indiscernible] in the region. Want to thanklly the new Europe Center for all to support they provided contribute tonight. Today, we want to dig into the subject of ukraine and georgias relationship with nato, and especially how these countries fit [inaudible] reflects the process. This was announced by nato secretarygeneral jan native g to see her to see how nato can prepare and this process may lead to a new strategic concept, and this isnt a luxury. The current one dates back to 2007, if im not mistaken, so i would argue that there is a need to rethink nato
Companys shares slumped after reports it could be added to the u. S. Blacklist. Discord rains. Oil retreats as opec fails before todays meeting. The uae and pakistan are said to be opposed to the current cuts. 6 00 a. M. In london. It has just gone 10 00 a. M. In the dad. Rally . Uld stop the maybe if yields bust above 1 , but that looks highly unlikely in a world of quasiyield controls. Good to have you back in hq. Annmarie good morning, manus. Glad to be back in london hq. One of the things the market seemingly continues to forget about, but this weekend we heard from all the top experts in the united states. Dr. Deborah birx saying postthanksgiving we are already seeing the disease likely. S 10 times more awake is w keeps her awake is what could happen after memorial day. Aboutey are dealing with 100,000 infections a day. Manus go to the front of bloomberg. Com. We have the headlines coming up across the bloomberg terminal at the moment. Take a look at bloomberg. Com because at the
Will try to fill in his space as he expresses his culinary abilities. Francine we will get clarification on what he is working on. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika good morning. S p global is on the verge of a giant deal in the Financial Information industry. Bloomberg has learned that the company is in advanced talks to for 44s markets billion. An agreement could be announced as soon as today. It would be the second biggest deal of the year. President trumps coronavirus taskforces propping promising a rapid rollout of the vaccine to 2 million americans i the end of the year. The Surgeon General expects that most americans will have access by early in the second quarter. He says the government hopes to quickly ok requests from two drugmakers for emergency approval of their vaccines. A group of opecplus ministers could reach an agreement on whether to delay januarys oil a fullincrease, before meeting of the cartel and its allies today.
Fishing license. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. Im Francine Lacqua in london. It is the last trading day in november. Certainly a lot of traders will be feeling the same, but stocks are dropping after this recordbreaking rally. A bit of a pullback on the last day of the month, capping this recordbreaking rally. Oil sliding after ministers failed to reach an agreement on supply. Small caps, energy and companies, banks, that group has been leading the rally in november. Today, a bit of profit taking. A couple of other things im watching for is the price of oil. We talked about that, encouraging news on brexit, which is why we see sterling at 1. 3333. The portuguese 10 year yield come i like that because we are on zero watch, or negative watch for that yield. Word newsyour first with leighann gerrans. Opecplus has failed to agree on an allay to januarys height. Many members support keeping production at current levels but the United Arab Emirates and kazakhstan oppose the move unless