Point 46 overnight. Political posturing is taking place with taking place between london and brussels. Checking in with some of the other little asset of the other asset classes. Gold pulling back in tandem with ,. 10 lower. Tom lets get you the first word news and an update on the continued spread of covid19. Have surged past 40 million and show no signs of slowing. U. S. Infection rates rising in 48 states while europe is inosing tighter restrictions london, paris, and other cities under strict curves with ireland enacting some of the toughest restrictions yet seen. The World Health Organization says failure to control quarantine rules has led to the resurgence. I stocks hit a six month low amid fears continuing street protests will drive investors away and further hurt the weakening economy. The benchmark index closed at its lowest level since april 16 as demonstrators bow to keep up pressure for constitutional reform and curbs on the monarchy. The index has lost more than 5 of its
Demand. Ryan, it is always a pleasure to talk to you. It was long in coming. Everyone asking, what are you going to buy . Tell us how you came up with this deal. It is great to be with you again today. We have been talking about the need for consolidation in business for quite some time. We need to put a Value Proposition together that offers investors a different way to think. We have done this with a transformative acquisition with concho resources. This brings in a bunch of lowcost supply resources government 23 billion barrels into the company. It is about a super strong Balance Sheet to manage the volatility we have seen in this business. It is about how you allocate capital for value, not for growth. It is distributions we were going to give back to the shareholder. It is about having a sustainable business. The deal takes an Energy Transition that we know is coming for our planet. Alix can you give us insight into how competitive it was . If you look at the Shell Companies that
Conocopillps acquiring contra resources. The largest deal this year and well have conoco ceo join us this hour. The 737 max or comeback european r regulators saying it is safe to fly and planning a december return to service. Carl jim, heard you just talking to becky about stimulus as we continue to kick this around it does not sound like this new sense of urgency, quote unquote, will do much to push the package forward. We are too close to the election and either side gives then the other side. I think has them so, lets say the president gives a little bit more than i think that Speaker Pelosi will make it even tougher because the president wants to get that check to you to the least amount of money donald j. Trump wanted. I know that is something that a lot of people, wow, the president gave it to me. I think what we should be owning and trading and buying are companies that are about to go through an Earnings Period that i think is going to be rocky but overall positive and i think
The various heroic people working at mount sinai hospital, i am tom keene, Francine Lacqua in london. Cavendish,d to baron it is an interesting mix in the United Kingdom of the politics of the government and the fairly grim pandemic statistics. Seenine we also havent from Boris Johnson and a while, so the daily briefings are led by various cabinet ministers, and yesterday we had the further three weeks of lockdown expansion extended. As baroness cavendish was saying, maybe we need more testing. What the markets are looking at, they are looking through the number of cases that are slowly increasing in europe and still increasing in the u. S. , they are looking through the deaths and infected cases, and chinese gdp was horrific, the first contraction in a decade, and they are focusing on the positive. We could have a drug that is working, from gilead, and President Trump has given a timeline and thought on how the economy could reopen. Tom i really want to emphasize, every politician in
Of that will be technical selling. The bond market is a little bit unusual not so much happening in yields here, but in europe you are seeing pretty strong support. The time now for the market moving news from our new york team. We want to begin with china and that historic economic slump. Ae first contraction in backdated. We have our correspondent with all of the details. Mike it was actually worse than you expected, 6. 8 decline, the worst since they started reporting quarterly in china back in 1992. The economy has not contracted the fullyear basis since 1970s. We will watch that. One reason the numbers were not worse, if you look at the second number, smaller than expected, Industrial Production of on. 1 , factories returning to work. The problem for them is with the rest of the world unlock and there is nobody to buy their stuff. Consumers are not buying. Lockdowns were lifted but people are still reluctant to go out and spend. Retail sales down 15. 8 this is important because th