1 ,s p up by nine tens of tech leading the charge. European markets underperforming but the ftse 100 pushing on gains over the last hour. Most european markets gained early than flatlining into the afternoon. We are seeing a bit of a return to the dollar this afternoon, still trading at the 118. 119 earlier on and security markets continue to be in focus as the ecb suggests there may be rates that could be cut further. Lets start off our conversation on the u. K. Labor market which took a turn for the worse in july. Total job losses climbed to nearly 700,000 since the start of the pandemic. Tois considering plans support jobs as per the government cost Furlough Program ending next month. Businesses need support which is why many of the intervention we have put in place lasts the last through the next year. I have not hesitated to act and create effective ways to support jobs and employment and we will continue to do so. From brusselsg us is Vincent Juvyns from jp morgan. Sunak may be s
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Next for oil stocks kiging off in the red theres more than 750 cases 5 750,000, i beg your par doon well talk about that and more as we kick off this hour we kick it off with the markets in terms of Stocks Holding steady as energy is in a free fall. Its the story of the day. It will be the story of this hour lets get to bob with the set up for these markets. Bob. The important thing is we are well off of the lows. Industrials weak Consumer Staples are weak. Were not getting any bounce at all from those defensive plays that done so well for us in the last several weeks like proctor, cocacola. Not much energy there today. One good piece of news, the banks after a rather rough week, the etf bouncing about 6 from its high to low. The key regional banks are trading up most of them were trading to the down side. Finally, just on oil, had a lot of inquiries about uso and all these oil efts want to remind every one they own oil futures. Either the front month in the case of uso they tend to ro
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