The europeans today. Their central bank will pump trillions into the euro zone economy. Thats called stimulus. Investors like it. So the dow is going to be down maybe 100. S p, 17. The nasdaq, about 26. Thats not a big pullback after yesterdays big gain and this weeks very big gains. Opening up the economy, thats a big deal for investors. This week, many theme parks and vegas casinos will open up again, albeit with limited capacity rules in place. And gms Ceo Mary Barra says auto plants will be back to previrus levels by the end of this month. Opening up, very important. Heres what you are waking up to this morning. Lot of boarding up of storefronts in the big cities. That appears to have cut down on the looting. Heavier charges against the Police Officer involved in the killing of george floyd. Its now Second Degree murder. In addition, the other three officers involved have been arrested and Face Criminal Charges for the first time. Following that, the protests were just as big but t
It looks like warm air is about to filter in. Our system will swing through for the morning and the afternoon. Fairfax and mill valley in san rafael we can see pockets are coming through. Maybe up to rutherford as well into sonoma and american canyon. With cordelia in fairfield back over to 37. It is not heavy but is still picking up a bit. Especially back in through for san jose to send teresa and evergreen areas down santa cruz 702 this morning where would you like to begin . We want to start at the east bay we can see general statement that it is tough driving out there because of the wet weather. It was raining harder this morning. And not raining is hard here berkeley. You can see the damage is done. 46 minute drive and lots of people got on the roads early. This is an interstate this is an interstate 880 look here and you can see it has been raining hard. Weve had other issues on 580 and 880s it has cleared up. And you can see for yourself it is pretty slow. Theres a spot in down
This is bloomberg surveillance. Im Francine Lacqua here in london. These are your markets. Global chief economist. A lot of the focus is on the next, the mastercard trade war. A lot of the focus is on data executive vice chair on out. We see pound. Diversity and her thoughts on we are of course watching that because we are one month exactly the apple card gender bias issue. From the early election, this is bloomberg. December 12, and the u. K. After the brexit party said they will not expand conservative seats. 1. 93. 0 year yield at coming up, we will be speaking to musabbeh al kaabi, the chairman of Mubadala Petroleum at 9 30 a. M. U. K. Time. That is manus cranny bringing that live. Lets kick off the show with the latest from hong kong. Rn that the city is on the brink of total breakdown as protesters rocked the citys financial district to a standstill. The chaos follows a flareup in violence after the first fatality linked to the protests. Is it different from yesterday . Is the mo
Nissan releases Second Quarter detailed earnings in just under half an hour. Joining the streaming wars, expanding breadbox in the u. K. Hong kongs financial district is paralyzed for a second day as protesters block subway lines and clash with police. We will get updates live. Less than half an hour to go until the start of the european trading day. Yesterday we were dominated by talk of hong kong. Violence on the streets there. Things seem to be violent once again. Clash is taking place. At the moment that is not having an impact in hong kong or the European Equity space. European equity markets set to bounce a little at the start of the trading day. Lets have a look at u. S. Futures. Racked up its first drop in four days in yesterday session. We had a slight pullback in the last 24 hours in terms of expectations around trade, in terms of the news flow around hong kong. Now we look set for a rally. U. S. Futures overlook convinced. Up by 0. 1 . Lets get to the gmm. This tells us what
Protesters brought the citys financial district to a standstill. Teargas disrupting the commute for a second consecutive day. Executive carrie lam says she still hopes district elections will be held as scheduled. We still hope we can hold the elections and try our very best to do so because it is an important election to respect and safeguard, but theres the issue of safety in order, so we have to work hard to satisfy these two requirements. Alix 20 meet on the phone from hong kong is karen joining me on the phone from hong kong is karen leigh. What happens next . Karen carrie lam urging order, and at the same time, we had two days of really jarring images and clashes, especially here in the financial hub. These arent images weve seen before. This feels like a bit of an escalation. This is something that led police this afternoon to warn that the city was on the brink of total breakdown. Carrie lam talking about how she still hopes district elections will be held in a couple of weeks.