Records and commodities enjoying their best weeks in five months. Nejra is official. The conservative party reserved a majority. Boris johnsons victory will allow him to carry out his promised to get brexit done. Aside from the parliamentary majority, it gives him free reign to take britain out of the union in january after four years of gridlock. The hope for an end made the pound jumped the most since 2017, highest level since may 2018 against the dollar, and the strongest rate against the euro since after the 2016 brexit referendum. Apart from it, its also worth noting Jeremy Corbyn said he would not leave the party in another general election and the lib dems leader has lost her seat in scotland. Taking a look at how assets reacted, you can see the pound jumped over 2 overnight. Us are ever to guests. Welcome both are our two guests. Welcome both. I think the pound could push higher. I think 1. 36 could be within isch, sterling around1. 82 in the cards. Brexit, with the outcome tha
Illian. Has joke at the end it reminded me of churchhill as well. Do you expect Boris Johnson to try to emulate his idol . Will he try to boil down the middle now that he has such a big church and keep all of these voters with the conservatives for longer . Christopher well, i thought that was a most interesting part of his speech. In my opinion, perhaps the most effective was his candid and disarming, even charming admission that a lot of the voters who put him back into power with a large majority have him on probation. A very nice parallel with his election as the mayor of london when a lot of traditional labour voters supported him and they have now supported a conservative party. That, i think is notice also in the rhetoric, one nation conservatives. He remindednation, himself that that is the formula. What does that remind you of . , not labour,labour but new labour. That was the slogan of tony blair. Clearly looking to put a very personal stamp, which arguably could be churchhil
We were both there for many years. They went into a downturn in the late 2000s. In the face of the internet and it started to evolved into a fulfilling job for me. I decided what i really loved to do was investigate complex cases and it was less market for that in the journalism world. The emphasis was on breaking news so i decided to try to see if i could do that work as a consultant. What kind of stories did you work on . I started out covering american politics here in washington in the late 1980s, early 90s and investigating politicians for possible corruption. Ethics in washington and over the years, got evolved into different types of investigating journalism involving financial crime, broad corporate cases, scandals, financial crisis and then over time, after 9 11, i started branching out into International Criminal matters such as terrorism and organized crime. What was peters role . Peter was my editor. We were stationed together in brussels, belgium which is the headquarters
Strong bipartisan congressional support for ukraine, senator johnson cautioned president zelensky that President Trump has a negative view of ukraine and t that president zelensky would have a difficult time overcoming it. Senator johnson further explained he had been shocked by President Trumps negative reaction during an Oval Office Meeting on may 23rd. On september 8th ambassador taylor told me, now theyre insisting zelensky commit to the investigation in an interview with cnn, which i took to refer to the three amigos. I was shocked their request was so specific and concrete. While we advise our ukrainian counterparts to follow the rule of law in investigating corruption allegations, thfis ws a demand that president zelensky commit on a cable news channel to an investigation of President Trumps rival. The hold was finally lifted after significant press coverage and expressions of concern about the withholding of Security Assistance. Although we knew the hold was lifted we were stil
Francine lacqua here in london. U. S. Treasuries are closed for the day. A lot of markets will be thin. Stoxx 600 gaining 0. 1 . The other big Market Movement this was happening is what is happening to the pound. We will speak to the pollster that put this yougov hole putting the majorities ahead. It always a good idea to look at yen. Gives us a good litmus test for risk out there. Coming up on bloomberg, we speak to the football legend Rio Ferdinand 30 minutes from now. Well ask him about what business can learn from sports and why he is working with the u. K. Property market. The Hong Kong Hong kong has found themselves at the center of tensions after President Trump signed a bill supporting city protesters. Requires special review of the trade status as well as sanctions against officials deemed responsible for human rights abuses. It threatens to copper gate trade talks at the two sides get close to a deal. Lets get the latest from jodi schneider. First of all, trumps action is exp