Probably not today ahead of another call between Commission President ursula and british Prime Minister Boris Johnson. U. K. Banks and Home Builders suffered the brunt of the selling as the ftse 100 outperforms the spot 600 and the pound stays under pressure well, a very good morning and welcome to street signs, everybody. Our top story of the day, no surprise, brexit as talks enter the 11th hour. And we have plenty of coverage this morning were going to get into all the detail, all the latest in just a moment but i want to kickoff by showing you the Market Reaction because its been pretty interesting the moves weve seen so far. Starting with sterling, which is trading up 1. 5 versus the dollar, so currently around the 1. 3240 level this as volatility in sterling has reached an eightmonth high. So a substantial sell off in the currency this morning on the back of this weekends developments as we head into the final talks. The ftse, meanwhile, the main benchmark in the equity market for
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A key architect of the European Union and the g 7 dies from coal with 19 former french president hollande has called a star led france during the 1970 s. And laid the foundation for europes single currency. As welcome to the program the head of germanys Public Health institute says he expects the coronavirus pandemic to claim many more lives in the country at a News Conference the president also a cough institut a lot of villas said germany had managed to stabilize the rate of new infections through restrictions in the past weeks but he stressed that caseload remains too high said he was particularly concerned about the rate of infections in care homes where increasing numbers of elderly residents are contracting the virus and he wanted all spittles coming under growing strain. Busy indifferent owning union or continental in some regions were seeing hospitals reach the limits of their capacities and as a result for having to perspire surgeries or treatments. We also see the number of s
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Moo its biden versus trump trump stock, trump stock. Both of which are going in surprising directions. If you you thought the election is over, the president is trying to do an end run around the results and fighting tooth to nail today the dow lost 222 point [ screaming the s p 500 declined points at 8 . Nasdaq dipped 2. 2 hey. I know it didnt feel like it was so bad but if you were in the nasdaq except for a couple of names, wow. They crushed it. Why dont we start there with next weeks game olympian . On monday morning we are coming in and, sadly, im betting we pass the 200,000 mark. Thats right 200 thousa,000 thousand cases an the virus is hurting business. If not monday, tuesday, wednesday, a question of when, not if i know there is a sense that we have had a big vshaped recovery which is terrific. But our inability to stop the spread is putting a crimp on business orders and retail sales. Just yesterday, work day, reported a solid quarter we have the coceos on the show but they me