This hearing will come to order. Without objection the chairs authorized to declare recess at any time to give money welcome to todays hearing on coronavirus, understanding the threat of Infectious Disease and mobilizing Innovative Solutions. I will recognize myself for an Opening Statement and then i woke frank recognize the Ranking Member for his Opening Statement again thank you for being here. Obviously this is an incredibly timely process. Covid19 is not the first pandemic we are ever going to deal with and certainly not the last one but it is incredibly important that we come together as a nation to get ahead of this, dress it and come up with treatment for it. If we think about Global Health security to threepronged approach. Containment medication and treatment. This is the third hearing that im sharing on the subject and the hearing is focused on the containment. It was the first hearing the congress held. The conclusion of that was the initial strategy of trying to contain th
It is not only a big conservative majority giving a lift to u. K. Stocks, the pound is gaining, but this phase one, or at least something that feels like a phase one [indiscernible] we will not see extra tariffs on sunday. It is going to be a risk on mood to markets overall. I am delighted to be joined by a conservative party spokesman. What a win for Boris Johnson. What are the markets looking at . What will you deliver, as the tory party, that the market likes so much . What we will deliver is a degree of certainty. Weve got a working majority, and that means we can deliver a withdrawal from the European Union on the timescale that we set out, and we can get on with thrashing out a trade deal with the eu and investing in an infrastructure that will help continue the growth in the u. K. Economy. Francine if a Withdrawal Agreement goes through, do you have any idea when that could be . We will certainly start the process before christmas, and we will do so in a way that we can get thro
Shinzo abe announces a package with 240 billion. Will europe follow suit . Anna another luxury buyout . Kering has talks on a deal with montclair. In search of consensus, oil eases ahead of todays opec meeting after the biggest surge in over two months. We await the pricing of saudi aramcos ipo. Matt i am looking first and foremost at the pound as i pull up my worksheet this morning, i. Oticed another spike today this is the threeday chart. It looks like markets are getting more confident in conservative victory in the upcoming election, just a little over one week from now. Take a look at the futures in europe. We have trade optimism that started this time yesterday after a Bloomberg School saying the u. S. And china are closer to a phase one deal than the rhetoric would lead you to believe. The japanese stimulus witching , daxes up both in europe futures up 0. 2 , but the futures up 0. 2 as well, and in the u. S. U. S. Futures, green arrows. Dow jones, s p 500 many contracts in the g
Were talking ever. That and much more on making money. Charles democratic president ial candidate Bernie Sanders reaffirming his stance that if you make more than 29,000 a year youre going to be paying more taxes to pay for the universal health care plan. Take a listen. What we will do, is have a 4 tax on income exempting the first 29,000. [applause] all right. Youre better at arithmetic than i am. Because what that means, if you are that average family in the middle, who makes 60,000 a year, well tax you on 31,000 at 4 . Charles man the guy is so generous. Not only does this sound unfair, i think will destroy our economy just as the middle class is beginning feel great about ourselves. Not talking about opinion polls. Talking about real life. Those same folks bernie wants to tax, theyre out there, spending money, creating jobs. Three retailers you know, great proxies for the middle class not only reported earnings. They beat wall street and raised guidance for the rest of the year. It
Electric. I have been in 14 and were live in leeds constituencies already, and the a city with five universities, numbers of people coming out to work so were here this morning talking to students about their concerns in and support and campaign for labour the run up to next months election. Is already much greater than it was the jury in the trial of a man accused of murdering british at the start of the 2017 election. Backpacker Grace Millane in new zealand are shown cctv footage of her last known moments. 0ur party and our members are so up for this fight, so up for this trying to break the world battle, we are going to win this land speed record the british team say theyre feeling confident. Election and we are going to win it because we offer something very different. I dont suppose there are too many people in this audience that we the daily telegraph. Its all right if you do it in private, i good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Im annita mcveigh. Understand it had a bizar