Have a durable exit from the health crisis. Including Amnesty International had written to the g20 finance ministers ahead of that meeting to warn that the world is facing a crisis unlike any in the last century, and that debt suspension is only a first step. The group said many of the poorest nations are spending more on debt payments than on lifesaving public services. There is growing pressure on british Prime Minister Boris Johnson to order a socalled lockdown. The Opposition Labor Party and government Scientists Say it is needed to get the coronavirus under control. Deaths have soared to the highest level since june. Concerns are mounting that johnsons new system of restrictions will not be enough. Pressure continues to see a Record Number of coronavirus cases. Officials work reported 14,000 new cases today, the most since the beginning of the pandemic. Russia has the Worlds Largest caseload. Despite a surge in new cases, russian authorities have dismissed suggestions of a Second
Gain of more than 500 points the day before that and right now dow futures indicated up another 113 points this comes after the dow closed at its highest level in a month yesterday. Oil prices picking up by about 3 more of a supply picture but the s p 500 indicated up by about 13, nasdaq up by 31. And treasureky my market, te yielding 0. 765 . Andrew lets talk about stimulus this morning because house he Speaker Nancy Pelosi and treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin spoke about a broad stimulus plan yesterday and Speakers Office says that the treasury secretary made it clear that President Trump had interest now in finding an agreement on a comprehensive relief plan, that conflicted with comments from the White House Communications director who said that the white house wants to address stimulus checks, Small Business loans and the airline, but not anticipating a larger package. Nancy pelosi said that the white house is open to something bigger but not on the scale that democrats have prop
Most of the important platforms, theres facebook and facebook messenger, instagram, and really just is a big either. Reporter the report recommends that companies be broken up or restructured into separately run units or face possible legal action. This is the point of a process that likely comes to legal trial and being seen by judges this is not necessarily going to be one case it might very well be that they raise one against apple and against google and amazon independently. The companies reacted strongly, amazon said misguided interventions in the free market would kill off independent retailers and consumers. From google quote americans and we dont Want Congress to break those products for harm the Free Services they use every day. And facebook said quote acquisitions are part of every uinnovate new technologies to e deliver more value to people. Its interesting because this committee is controlled by democrats, what do the republicans on the committee have to say . By and large
Territory. The week has had news of ashares cell a share sell. China puts money on chips to counter rising pressure from washington. It has the same level of backing as the Atomic Program enjoyed years ago. Sophie lets get a check on the set up in asia. Some much awaited pullback on wall street. Asian stocks look set to fall. 1930still Holding Around levels and the yen above 106. But when it comes to stocks in china and hong kong, a drop is productive at least 1 . Softbank is said to be considering a bid for tiktok. In the Semi Conductor space, news that china is planning to support the domestic industry, which launched a billiondollar route in u. S. Chip stocks. Also in south korea, watching for any details of a potential in thecash handout budget that could be announced this weekend. A snapshot of the u. S. Close, the s p fell the most since march, and it was the biggest sincefor the s p june, the biggest drop for the nasdaq since march, with apples market cap falling below 2 trillio
The hearing was set before the bank agreed to pay 4 billion. The race for tiktoks assets aress the globe sees we told its been talking to geo platforms. We do have some breaking news crossing the bloomberg. Current account numbers coming through. We are getting the july current account surplus coming in at 7. 5 billion u. S. Dollars. The trade surplus sitting at 6. 9 7 billion in july and we are watching out for some other developments coming out south korea today. Highlevel officials of the Ruling Democratic Party and the government will be meeting to discuss a second cash handout and potentially a fourth extra budget according to local mode media reports and we are expecting perhaps an announcement when it comes to the social distancing measures as well as the coronavirus update to come. Lets take a look at the fed when it comes to the markets. It was a fallback overnight when it comes to u. S. Stocks and driven by a correction in the highflying tech sector. We saw u. S. Stocks falli