Vaccines. Virus deaths hit a record in the u. S. And in italy. And finding a compromise, opec agrees to slowly add more oil year after days of tense talks. Saudi arabias Energy Minister called the process of excruciating. Welcome to the program, everybody. Welcome to the European Market open. It has just gone 7 00 here in london. German factory orders rising 2. 9 month on month. The estimate was for an increase of 1. 5 . That was better than anticipated. Factory orders arising year on year, 1. 8 . The estimate was 0. 2. We have seen a continuation of growth coming through. We will see what momentum is like in the further winter months. Another story out of germany, potentially more interesting, perhaps. Germany has agreed to extend a to preventr bankruptcies as the economy is hit by the second wave of the pandemic. Germany is extending its 37 billiondollar backstop for Credit Insurance by another six months in the month of june. The industry will surrender 60 of remittance to the gover
Were happy about. Congratulations for that lets go to the wall and check out where we stand as we set the table for our friday conversation 29,367 for the dow thats 1 . 2 8. S p is just shy of that and the nasdaq is having a pretty good day as are the small caps. Liz young, lets set the investing landscape if we could for our debate youve got virus cases soaring but very promising vaccine news on a number of different front you got the president not conceding but you got biden winning arizona, which gives some more certainty to the transition period, despite the noise and the noise makers, if you will youve got so much pentup demand on the other side of the virus. You know thats going to be the case then you have this battle between value and growth as you all try and figure out where to place your bets for the months ahead. What do we do with all of that what do we do with all that we start with thinking about the time frame its true that through the end of the year, maybe into januar
Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. Happy monday. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. Toin, a very busy week, on the u. S. Election and about 16 days. Looking at futures, the hope is that we will get stimulus, and i am looking at treasuries. The pound already up after reports that officials were prepared to water down controversial brexit legislation and a move that could revive failing talks with the European Union. Also, the yuan seann gains. Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news in london with leighann gerrans. Hi, leighann. Leighann good morning, francine. Nancy pelosi says a preelection is possible, but she has set a tuesday deadline for making more headway with the white house. President trump is confident he can persuade the republicans to back a good deal, renewing his offer to go beyond the dollar amount that is now on the table. Now china has passed a new law to restrict sensitive exports to protect national security. It provides a framework for beijing to fight back
Vaccine. And we start out with breaking news on disney, putting distribution in the center part of its business. Julia. Thats right. Disneys reorganizing its Media Entertainment business to accelerate its direct to consumer strategy. It says this is in light of the success of disney plus the move divides content and creation and content distribution, creating a new median entertainment distribution group, this group will be responsible for monetizing all content including ad sales and digital platforms liking disney plus the new division will also oversover see operations of the streaming service. I would not characterize it as a response to covid i might say that covid accelerated the rate at which we made this transition, but this transition was going to happen anyway because essentially what we want to do is separate out the folks who make our wonderful content based on tremendous franchises from the Decision Making in terms of where the prioritization is in terms of how it gets com
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