Francine one week to go, biden picks up his campaign pace as the senate hands the Supreme Court judge confirmation to trump and republicans. Syphilis Nancy Pelosi Nancy pelosi and Steve Mnuchin failed to make a deal. And chief executive noah quinn cast credit losses. Paybank aims to conservative diffidence. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. Tom keene in new york, im french on the quad and london. That Francine Lacqua and london. We have hsbc, we talk about dividends. Bp saying it will be a very volatile couple of quarters ahead. Tom the pandemic overlay was still ahead. That was the theme yesterday, far more than the election, it was certainly the talk of new york. Every conversation was about a reinventing of the pandemic. Thee going to try to put nearlyhrough today, not as much damage as you would we are witht here futures up six. Francine and what is also significant is a lot of european countries, there seems to be a backlash against governments that are trying to put too many res
Lets break it down with mike mckee. Is a it is michael it little bit odd. On the headline, 100. 9 is lower than it was in the month of august or september, rather, when it was 101. 8. You would expect that maybe the present situation would be causing people concern because of the coming closures of some businesses as covid cases spike but the number comes in at 98. 9 at up from 104. 6, up from 98. 9. Turnabouting quite a in the way people are looking at the economy. The interesting thing here is this bemay see is reasonably good news for donald trump because if you are looking at the economy, stupid, as the old saying goes, you are looking at the economy as it is right now, and the economy as it is right now is better. The employment number is something Everyone Wants to look at in the set up to next week. Jobs number is an improvement, so those who think we are going to have a dismal jobs report next week might be in for a surprise, at least according to the underlying Consumer Sentim
Afternoon live, im simon mccoy. Could host to much of the events for today at 4. The 19 year old british woman convicted of lying about being raped birminghams Commonwealth Games. I will explain later. And darren with in cyprus is allowed to fly back to the uk after receiving a 4 month the weather. A lot of interest in suspended sentence. The foreign secretary welcomes the news. We will be following up on the the weather. A lot of interest in the weather. A lot of interest in issues in relation to the case. The weather in the uk. Not least because his so mild but it is also i spoke to the Cypriot Foreign windy in some parts of the uk. We minister about that. Will look at that later. Scores of people are killed thanks darren. In a stampede, as iranians flock also coming up. To the funeral of qasem suleimani, killed by the us. Joker leads the way in this years bafta film nominations but theres criticism of the lack a teenager admits killing of diversity with only white newlywed pc Andrew
Hello and welcome to world news today. The British Parliament has given its backing by an overwhelming majority to Boris Johnsons eu Withdrawal Agreement. The vote makes it almost certain that brexit will happen by january 31st ending decades of uk membership of the European Union. The Prime Minister won with a majority of more than 100 votes including six from the opposition labour party. The Withdrawal Agreement now approved in principle by mps says. The uk will leave the eu on the 31st of january and imposes a transition period until the end of 2020, during which britain will still abide by eu rules. It says we will pay the eu a divorce bill of around 33 billion pounds. And it sets out a plan for dealing with the Northern Irish border with a possible Customs Border down the irish sea. Our deputy Political Editor john pienaar has more. Were leaving. Were through the looking glass. Everything looks the same, but nothing will be the same again. The last lonely protester was there, figh
It happened in the port of mexicos island of cozumel. No serious injuries have been reported. At ten oclock, clive myrie will be here with a full round up of the days news. First, bloodhound, the story of the supercar aiming to break the land speed record. Well, the thing about the land speed record is it is the last of the amateur corinthian sports. It is done purely for the love, the fascination of it. Some people argue, well, the old cars are no more, but forget it is a car, we are pushing the boundaries of engineering to its absolute limit. Every day i go, why are we doing this . It may be the last land speed record as we know it. This is a story about stubbornness and ingenuity, and yes, about speed, too. It is the story of a quest to design and build the worlds fastest car, and then to find a place flat enough, long enough, to actually drive it. There are not many spots on this particular planet suitable for racing faster than the speed of sound. You cant just pick a straight str