Welcome to countdown. I am mark barton. It is 6 00 and london. Bloomberg reporters ready to deliver the stories that will drive your day. Elliott is in tel aviv covering the iraq situation. John kerry calls on the countrys leaders to unite. Ryan chilcote is in the studio on the current state of play with south street pipeline. Manus cranny is here looking ahead to mark carneys grilling in front of lawmakers today. It is the deal this is a lot about u. S. Companies trying to avoid taxes. Caroline hyde has the autopsy report on the monsantosyngenta talks. Exclusives an mineview with the head of old bank, peter weinzierl. Called to unite against an al qaeda Breakaway Group to seek after the countrys largest oil refinery. This would seem to reinforce very concerns that i rock iraqs very survival is at stake. Bighe oil refinery is a loss. Lets not beat about the bush. This is the largest in the country. There have been reports of shortages of Refined Products in the kurdish region. The seco
European headquarters in london. Im guy johnson. Were going to get some breaking news. The german Business Confidence coming out. The headline . S come through at 109. 7. The median estimates 110. 3. Lets take a look at how the euro is reacting to this. We have a situation obviously where everybody is watching carefully to see how the German Economy is going from here. Crucial really, the next step from the e. C. B. Dipping on the back of this one. 1. 3597. This is a survey, a mere gaugor investor sentiment. Well break it down for you in just a moment. The headline number certainly something of a miss. Of course it follows weaker p. M. I. Numbers. Germany and france yesterday. I missed that yesterday. A bit of a catchup. You poor thing. At least you caught some tennis. It follows the p. M. I. Numbers. Were more likely to seeing draghi moving toward full blown q. E. Lets get a breakdown about what the numberings tell us on the state of the German Economy. Hans nickels breaks it down for
Region. Help us understand what the fourthlargest city in iraq. I thought there was a. Errific set of maps find out. T is an autonomous part we will talk about this a lot in the hour. Particularly markets on the move in the past couple of hours. Lex jack lew will testify before the house subcommittee today. Finally, soccer to talk about. Italy versus your away versus uruguay. I am enjoying it. I did not think i would. I am a football guy. That we are doing it nothing like the enthusiasm of the mexico coach. Those frat functions thursday nights a few years ago. Markets havenow . Deteriorated in the past 40 minutes or so. Euro turns. Oil was a 105. It was down when we all came in. Back to 106. 98. On to the next screen. Was 113. De there is foreignexchange to keep foreignexchange hounds happy as well. 1015s caseshiller back years. This is the good news we have seen. The rollover as well. Housing of the question. The rent and buy calculation part of that as well. Tuesday we scour the pape
Infectious disease experts warning that the postholiday case surge will be destabilizing for the u. S. On several front, including skyrocketing hospitalizations. Nearly 90,000 people are spending this holiday in the hospital. And where is the president . Still focusing on the election that he lost. Today marks three weeks since the election was called for joe biden. President trump has yet to formally concede defeat. Meanwhile, a member of bidens coronavirus Advisory Board says the president elect will stick to the science and let Health Experts decide who gets the vaccine first. This, as the cdcs independent Vaccine Advisory Committee scheduled an emergency meeting and vote for this tuesday to discuss vaccine allocation, who will get those vaccines first. All public gatherings will now be banned in Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the nation. Over 10 million residents will be impacted by the new stayathome order as california becomes the third state to record more than
So far. That doesnt mean were not alone. More on the lake and ocean. A new eighteen i can in washington d c im going to france to watch our team. Im talking about the two thousand sixteen president ial election no im not talking about speculation regarding who might run or a grandchild and how it might affect a certain candidates political ambitions. Instead im talking about a movement is underway to fundamentally change how the us alexis president every four years the National Popular vote the kids to interstate compact movements. And while that might sound like a complicated jumble of words is actually Pretty Simple idea. It is time to replace the Current Electoral College system the country uses to elect its president mr called National Popular vote system as in whichever candidate thats the most folks around the country wins the presidency. As we learned in two thousand al gore winning the popular vote does not necessarily mean winning the laptop college and white house. The Nation