Slog, which we are in right now. Slog, that is a pretty good way stalling economic recovery. Pandemic fatigue setting in. It is hard to swallow. The worlds better with covid, such a long way to go. Today we saw the pressure put on as investors left without a new stimulus deal and see a spike in cases of covid. Joe, were going to be digging into this slog. Joe it sort of feels like today is the day that its really daunting on people. This is really real. There really is a surge here. If you want to call it a different way. Kind of besides the point whether it is in europe where we are seeing hospitalizations, deaths, and of course cases on the rise. Hospitals in the u. S. Starting to see strains again i capacity. Of course, this is a major theme of the spring surge. Utah hospital starting to prepare to ration care. Reports out of texas, wisconsin, elsewhere. It seems like today was a day a lot of this set in. A lot of opening trade having a bad day. Romaine it is interesting to bring up
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Lead to care. For School Welcome to the program such a bank has long been in crisis a so far failed restructuring attempt a litany of litigation in the United States and high costs have weighed the company down now it says its on the road to recovery announcing its 3rd straight quarter of profits a bunch of bank returned over 300000000 euros for the 3rd quarter thats more than analysts estimated a boost in trading revenue and a drop in missed credit repayments helped a lot so far this year looks a lot better than 29000. 00 when it made losses in the boot billions of euros as you can see there however the full effect of the pandemic could yet be to come if Companies Fail to pay back loans that could yet damage the companys long promised return to success now. Is the financial correspondent in frankfurt. How well is Daughter Bank prepared for a potential wave of bankruptcies due to the pandemic. Its better prepared than in the past the numbers in the Balance Sheet which describe the Capi
Coronavirus restrictions by taking a trade behind closed doors. This is the view of dictator when you business on robots in berlin welcome to the program. Now little is important during a pandemic as a countrys Health Care System but like other sections of government they can be subject to Corruption Transparency international has again ranked countries around the world in terms of how corrupt their citizens perceive them to be particularly when it comes to the misuse of public money looking at the Coronavirus Crisis the group says that countries the perform well on the index invest more in health care and are better able to provide universal Health Coverage lets have a look at where that would be topping the list with the least perceived corruption are a few European Countries that weve got australia and new zealand and then in asia weve also got japan hong kong. And singapore among others elsewhere in the world a little further down the list we see countries where a small level of co
Over by 250 points and this morning you are seeing green arrows for the s p 500 and nasdaq, nasdaq right now up by about 122 points in the future market and that is pretty impressive you are now talking about four days in a row that you have seen gains for the major averages all are within 5 of their 52 week highs and in fact the transports set a new alltime high yesterday too. Right now the dow futures are indicated a little down by about 61 points. Were watching a lot of things that have been happening including news with Johnson Johnson, and earnings are coming out too. And if you want to take a look at the treasury market, right now you will see that the ten year seems to be sitting just around 0. 759 . So not far from where it has been yep, earnings are supposed to take the baton from stimulus hopes, which i dont know whether those are fleeting or not. But supposedly the earnings might be pretty good yesterday kind of weird all the stay at home new age tech stuff was strong as i t