English premier league along with a spat with the u. K. , all reports prius president xi jinping could close the u. S. Consulate in showing do. Tension and political Mitch Mcconnell good unveil a gop plan opening up discussions with immigrants. Cost cuts assifies it sees a considerable slump in economic output. Confirms its diagnostics unit. Units from unilever coming from across the wire. What are you seeing . Anna we got the numbers from unilever. Lets get to the story in london. Unilever with underlying sales, down. 3 , but better than the market anticipated. The estimate was for a drop. 3. 89 . That is a good number for the underlying sales story. They were telling us about what they plan for their tea business. They talked about moving it on in some way. Now with a that will hold they will hold on to some of it. They are retaining the tea businesses in india and indonesia and interest in the ready to drink tea joint ventures they have, but they are telling us the operations they w
Rn. Yes, they did. What did you discover here at Bennett College . It was a big day for me. I came from someplace. I came being supported by the whole community. They prayed for me at church. I had a little scholarship money. I was going to work a little bit. There was always that let me give you a few pennies. So i came from the community and off we came to Bennett College. Id never been to Bennett College before. Id never been to greensboro before. I arrived here to hawith my par and a lot of parents and a lot of students all deposited by parents. It was a lonely feeling when they said goodbye and left. People in short order would become persons who were important to you on the campus, staff and fellow students. As my parents were getting me situated in my room, there was a girl being deposited from West Virginia. Her mom met my mom and they talked. Rozs mother told my mom, how they talked and just told each other so much in so little time, ill never know. But heres what got establis
Good morning, everyone. This is bloomberg surveillance. Im Francine Lacqua in london. Lets look at the markets. The markets focusing on data out of france. Verye expecting pmis shortly but also focusing on the china deal after there was confusion on whether the deal with China Remains intact or not. First to the data that is just coming out. There was a bit of a surprise when it came to the french pmi above 50. Anything above 50 in this environment, remember, anything above 50 means expansion. Anything above 50 in this environment is really taken as encouraging news. Euro area june manufacturing pmi coming in at 46. 9, betterthanexpected. Services pmi much betterthanexpected. The figure we were expecting was 41 and it came at 47. The other things i am watching and thehis renminbi european stocks gaining 1. 3 . Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Heres dani burger. U. S. Vice president mike pence is warning of more young people testing positive for coronavirus. He made t
Deterioration here. We are suddenly down. 6 having gone negative a few minutes ago. Our bloomberg reporter is suggesting it is chinas response to President Trumps accusation. Safeguarding it will its interest and offer countermeasures after trump sent, a letter to congress a strategic approach. We will see if this continues throughout the afternoon. 500 isow the s p down. 6 . The Boston Scientific is down 5 . Best buy is down 5 , and many other companies. The 10year yield at 66 basis points. Dire Economic Data again today. Justollar index, it was about 99 at the beginning of todays session. Above 34 a barrel now. Higher. Long as it is lets talk about what is happening with the negative rates in the u. K. Replicated over in the United States as well. The eurozone has that experience. Tom withfrancine and the former governor of the bank of england. This was his take. I dont think it is credible to believe a longterm solution to the problems we are facing can be achieved by moving Interes
20 aftershocks. The strongest one was about 5. 1. Which on any normal day would be a pretty sizable earthquake in its own right, but this was the aftershock and that happened about 20 minutes or so after the main quake struck at 4, 3, this morning, but had about 20 aftershocks, a ground still shaking just good news is that while were all quarantine or a home this year already with your family theres no like scattered plan or altogether color out is you know where they are thats good point there in your house. So lets talk about coronavirus now as the bay area continues to ease its restrictions in phase 2 now of the states reopening. The guidelines overnight and there are new details this morning about what this entails Sonoma County is now going to join napa and solano counties in phase 2 and starting monday marin county will join San Francisco and san mateo counties in easing restrictions. Alameda contra costa and santa clara counties, those still remain however in phase one which clo