Years at the helm of siemens and activists point to massive human rights violation in violations of western china. Volkswagen plant their welcome to the show. Im Stephen Beardsley in berlin. The used to largest economies are signaling more help for business. As rising covert infections keep their countries in lockdown, french finance minister, bruno la, saying thursday, hes working on an aid package for small and midsize businesses, including rent relief and new tax credits. His german counterpart told reporters he will do everything necessary to cushion the economic fallout in germany. The government in berlin is currently working on a 10000000000 euro package to help restaurants and bars, among other businesses get more from chelsea delaney, our financial correspondent in frankfurt. Chelsea, how hard is this 2nd wave hitting european businesses . Were definitely seeing big divergences between european economies. If you look at germany, for example, what weve seen so far is a hit that
More important to traders . The cash trade is one hour away. Thats get your top headlines for you from the bloomberg terminal. Pressing for concessions, stimulus talks in the u. S. At an impasse with the white house and democrats still far apart on major issues. President trump prepares to take unilateral action to extend jobless aid. King of spinoff. Siemens gets a boost from its Software Unit as adjusted earnings climb a prevent 8 for the quarter. We will talk with the cfo shortly about results and plans to list more parts of his business. Plus, we will speak with the bank of england governor, Andrew Bailey, later today, as the u. K. Central bank makes its Rate Decision. What have you got on the boe here . Annmarie as expected, they maintain their benchmark Interest Rate at. 1 . This is what we were expecting. They are keeping their total bond purchases. The target is unchanged at 745 billion pounds. Of course, this is what we were expecting. Now, we have the august minutes coming in
Options. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. Now, there is quite a lot going on in the markets, simply because the stimulus in the u. S. Is getting people quite excited. Part of it is what we are hearing from Central Banks around the world, the projections. This is what the markets are doing overall. Stocks are turning higher. Gold at the same time is ascent, and then we have the word on the latest american stimulus package. We need to mention pound, rising against the euro, after the bank of england said it did not plan to tighten policy until the inflation outlook is more clear. Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news. Here with me in london is laura white. Hi, laura. Laura as fast as they can, but that does not mean safety is being sacrificed. Dr. Anthony fauci he hopes the vaccine is at least 70 effective, but he says he would still feel good if it is at least 50 effective. Classical history of viruses, particula
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