Socalled filibuster rule, which now becomes all the important after todays vote. Excellent. Im not sure ive ever seen Steve Kornacki and his khakis as work on a ranked Choice Voting election so im very much looking forward watching him break this down. I started to write a script about the ranked choice thing, and i did a couple of shots at it and i just went, im leaving that to kornacki. Its just going to be, and heres Steve Kornacki, and go ahead and explain ranked choice. I just its tough. When it comes from the Point Of View of the voter i always thought it should be called One Two Three voting. From the point of voter you dont have to do anything that hard. The hard part to explain is how it gets tabulated. The counting the vote part of it is hard to explain. What you do as a voter isnt that hard. But i bet kornacki can explain that part better. Exactly. Its the counting the vote spot in the script where i just gave up, and you can watch that on tv later this hour. See the point,
Voting. The Point Of View of the voter you dont do anything that you need, you dont need it rancorous. As the hard part of it is how is it gets tabulated. The candidates, the next choice, moves up, recalculated the counting the vote part of it is hard to explain. When you do as a voter is not that hard. But i bet that kornacki can explain all of that. It is exactly its the counting the vote spot in the script or i just gave up. And you can watch that on tv later this evening. Youll see the moment where rank choice, they get to choose their top and here is steve, it is going to go just like that. [laughs] now he knows to be ready in the middle of your sentence. Very good. Yeah, thank you rachel. Thank you. What we saw on the United States senate today was a show performed for two senators. Majority leader chuck schumer, wrote the Voting Rights bill before the and the senate just to show Democratic Senators joe manchin and kirsten cinema that the bipartisanship is hopeless in the United
The bill awaits signoff from the president. Akron turns up the heat. France threatens to veto a brexit deal if it does not like the terms, piling pressure on the e. U. Not to make further concessions. Welcome to the program, everybody. 7 00 in london. 8 00 in paris. Lets look at the futures. We are fairly flat on futures. The young stock x50 futures flat. Yesterday, we saw some decent gains for the ftse, up by more than 1 and that was a standout compared to the rest of europe which was more mixed. It was mixed in the u. S. Session as well. We did actually see a bit of a late rally in u. S. Equity trading, up to some of those new highs we were talking about in headlines. All of that in the context of the hopes and dreams around u. S. Stimulus. The concern about what can legitimately be done in the shortterm and a lot of hope around vaccines. Perhaps oncent day some parts of the equities space and a late rally in the u. S. Yesterday and we are now pausing. We are pausing somewhat here. W
California joins texas reaching one million infections. Picking a statement, President Trump bands investments and firms controlled by chinas military as u. S. Election Officials Say the vote was the most secure in american history. Welcome to the program, happy friday morning. Under one hour until the start of the cash equity trading session in europe. We have a mixed picture in futures. European futures looked negative. Yesterday u. S. And european stocks dropped around concern to the extent we may see new lockdown measures in the United States. We have a futures picture where europe is weaker, wanting to play catchup with latterday losses in the United States. U. S. Futures. 2 the upside. U. S. Futures point two the upside. Nasdaq futures are treated like havens during the coronavirus. Lets look where we are across the broader assets, weakness in china. President trump in the last few months of his presidency, focusing on the things he can still act on. China mobile and telecom fall
Worsening Downside Risk. Raphael bostic knows joblessness seems to be flattening plateauing at a high level. Netflix plunges on disappointing subscriber forecasts. The Group Announces its chief content officer will join Reed Hastings as joint ceo. Just under an hour ago to the start of cash equities trading. With have a look at what is going on on futures market, a little bit of upside for European Equity markets and u. S. Markets for when we get to the u. S. Trading day. ,eep an eye on nasdaq features quite robust, up around 7 10 of 1 despite afterhours negativity around netflix, contained to just a netflix story, not anything broader about the tech sector. Weve had pleasing reports but they havent always been accompanied. Rising share prices is an interesting dynamic to discuss. Getting some numbers from electrolux, recovering faster than predicted. The numbers look to be broadly in line with estimates. Coming up, speaking to the ceo. The ceo will be joining us later on, jonas samuel