The big monthtomonth handoff in the markets. Major indices looking to tack on another month of games for june. July opens with data intensive week, ending with jobs one day early. Ken feinberg set to announce details of the General Motors Compensation Plan for Crash Victims. Well bring it to you live. Outrageous, facebook conducted a largescale psychological experiment on more than 500,000 users. And the u. S. Expected to unveil a near 9 billion fine for francis bnp paribas. Futures pointing to a lower open nasdaq on pace for two months of gains. S p and dow shoot for five months of consecutive gains and data over the next few days. Chicago pmi, pending homes also out today. Auto sales, june jobs coming later in the week, adp challenger. A good time as always to take stock of what the First Six Months have meant. Not good news for actively managed funds, as the journal points out today. Were in this business where theres a deal that happened this morning that really does in many ways c
Good evening. The evening is howling and just over my shoulder the broiling Chesapeake Bay showing the power of Hurricane Sandy thats tracking towards us far off the coast. But its landfall that has scientists using megastorm, a surprising link up between two massive storms, impacting up to 60 mlion people. You have to see what it looks like from space to really appreciate the size of the storm. Its simply a swirling right mass up and down across. People are heeding the urgent warnings especially in coastal regions. Tonight people are under mandatory evacuation orders. New york city city and philadelphia are also preparing to shut down mass transit. Our team is spread all along the midatlantic coast with the latest on the storm and its impact. We want to begin with the weather channels jim cantore on the tip of lower manhattan. Reporter where im standing in about 24 hours, theres a very good chance ill be standing here in waisthigh water, if i were Still Standing here and i wont be. He
Bollywood actor irrfan khan, who starred in Slumdog Millionaire and life of pi, has died at the age of 53. Good morning and welcome to bbc news. Im victoria derbyshire. The Coronavirus Testing Programme is being expanded by the government. It will include all care home staff and residents, and anyone over 65. The government says the 100,000 target set by the Health Secretary is due to be met by tomorrow. Downing street is this morning still declining to say whether Boris Johnson will appear at Prime Ministers questions in the commons this lunchtime following his return to work. A recession on an extraordinary scale is predicted by spains Prime Minister following the outbreak. Over 58,000 us citizens have now died from covid 19. Thats more than the number of americans killed in the vietnam war. Almost 18,000 more people could die from cancer over the next year in england because of the impact of covid 19, according to researchers. Well have more on all those stories shortly. 0urfirst re
Good evening. The evening is howling and just over my shoulder the broiling Chesapeake Bay showing the power of Hurricane Sandy thats tracking towards us far off the coast. But its landfall that has scientists using megastorm, a surprising link up between two massive storms, impacting up to 60 million people. You have to see what it looks like from space to really appreciate the size of the storm. Its simply a swirling right mass up and down across. People are heeding the urgent warnings especially in coastal regions. Tonight people are under mandatory evacuation orders. New york city city and philadelphia are also preparing to shut down mass transit. Our team is spread all along the midatlantic coast with the latest on the storm and its impact. We want to begin with the weather channels jim cantore on the tip of lower manhattan. Reporter where im standing in about 24 hours, theres a very good chance ill be standing here in waisthigh water, if i were Still Standing here and i wont be.
Its thursday, april 5th. With signs on of uncertainty as President Trump heads into a trade war with china, the white house with insisted its just a bargaining chip. The president once again exaggerating the u. S. Trade deficit with china by 163 billion, despite numerous fact checks. The wall street journal reports that President Trump who initiated the tensions over chinese trade practices has put himself in position to face mounting pressure from lawmakers and navigating cumbersome new trade rules all of which was feeding tremendous volatility into the stock and commodities market. The Washington Post reports the president is finally expediting the policies that got him elected and is more comfortable without a number of aides around him who are tempering his instincts. And he cites poll number necessary recent weeks as a reason he should do it his own way. There is concern as chinas move to match americas 50 billion in tariffs goes after a key crop for u. S. Farmers. China purchases