Today marks 400 years since the sailing of the mayflower. This is the beginning of an Enduring Alliance between our two nations. Around 35 million americans trace their ancestry to a mayflower passenger. I shall have further meetings later today. Will the Prime Minister join me in thanking teachers, teaching assistants, and all support staff for the extraordinary work they are undertaking to bring our children back to schools, colleges, and nurseries in covid secure environments throughout . Will he update the house on implementation of the program as many of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children needs this help at the earliest opportunity . May i strongly echo his congratulations and his thanks to teachers. I believe passionately in the tutoring programs we are launching and we expect the first group of tutors to be supporting schools from november with provisions ramping up through the remainder of the autumn and spring term. Deputy leader. Thank you, mr. Speaker. Many peopl
600 gaining. A lot of the focus is on earnings and the economic backdrop. 1134. Ollar 1 it has fluctuated but is very arrangedbound. Rangebound. Coming up, the World Economic forum in davos. We bring you all the biggest names in banking. Lets get straight to first word news in new york city. We begin with the new york senate approving Donald Trumps new freetrade agreement with mexico and canada. It handles the president and a major win ahead of impeachment. The overhaul of the agreement was a priority for mr. Trump. Mitch mcconnell called vote a rare moment of bipartisan cooperation. The white house broke the law in withholding aid the ukraine. Accordingting to an independent watchdog, saying the president should not have delayed money. This is a key part of the impeachment case against President Trump. , quoteg with them obsessed with the u. S. Trade deficit. This is according to bill hogan, saying americafirst policies are bringing about a priceless moment for global trade. This came
Basically pleased everyone. There was an upgrade at Morgan Stanley and that is another stock at the top of the s p 500. A new twentyyear issue according to the treasury that has yields a little bit higher. Highs, that is the story. Volumes reasonably good around 1 . Some decent data coming out of china. That is helped the mining stocks. The pound tracking lower. Sales. Tail keep an ion the eurodollar, as well. 110. 8 is a line in the sand. Things a start to get interesting. Down by. 4 . We have a bank of england meeting coming up. Lets stick with the stories and talk to our guest who joins us in london. Peter dixon, commerzbank. I want to start with the bank of england. I have a chart here. This is the probability of a cut from the bank of england and it has skyrocketed. We are up to 75 and it is happened quickly. Is it a done deal . No, but the market is telling us something. The balance of probability is clearly in favor. What we want to see is pushback. The market is driving in this
Against adam shift for conduct that misleads the american people. Watch live coverage of the house at noon eastern here on cspan. We take you live to testimony from Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director khoep a. Hes testifying today on the Digital Economy a Consumer Protection before the House Financial Services committee. We join this in progress. Mr. Sherman credit repair scams are not just annoying television commercials. They charge you a lot of money. They just blanketly contest everything on your Credit Report. Your credit score goes up for a little while until they realize that most of those entries were accurate and it goes back down. What are you doing to deal with the scheme where you get your Credit Report improved for a little while . We are looking hard at all the ways in which consumer Credit Report issues can spawn scams. We have brought a number of Enforcement Actions here. We do work with the federal trade commission, state a. G. s to bring action. We dont want
Us President Donald Trump denies downplaying the severity of the coronavirus pandemic. Drinking when youre pregnant official advice in england is dont drink at all now its being proposed that even one glass of wine should be marked on your childs medical records. The uk government says it will announce details in the next few days of how it will limit access to coronavirus tests as the system struggles to cope with the surge in demand. Staff and patients in the nhs and social care sector will be given priority after the Health Secretary, matt hancock, said it might be weeks before the problems are resolved. Another cabinet minister, Robert Buckland, acknowledged the government is facing real challenges and insisted it will do whatever it takes to increase laboratory capacity. Greg mckenzie reports. The signs are clear, the testing system is struggling to cope, with reports that some in desperation are turning up at accident and emergency seeking coronavirus tests. It has led to this wa