Priority. Pandemic under control is his top priority. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. A lot of the focus is on the number of infected with covid19. At bond growth, a lot going on, treasuries, for example, rising. Overheated equity markets, the deteriorating coronavirus situation in many countries. Oil demandtting its outlook, saying they will not rescue the market, and then i got a look, not very often, but coming out with figures that were not great but were better than expected, leading to burberry gaining one point half percent. 1. 5 . Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news in london with laura wright. Hey, laura. Laura good morning, francine. The recovery is being derailed by a rise in virus cases and a. Ew lockdown president elect joe biden is naming longtime aide dr. Vinjamuri ron claim as his chief of staff. His leading role during the Health Crisis of the Obama Administration leaving the white house in the 2
Todays discussion is defender in chief Donald Trumps fight for president ial power. Thanks for joining us today. S. Im one of the oldest people on staff talking about a book, without the relationships i have asked aei. Lets jump into the book. You summarize the overall argument of the book that donald trump, quote, has returned to the frames original vision of the presidency, and office of unity, vigor and independence in securing the benefits of an energetic executive, trump may have done the nation his greatest service. Elaborate on that and describe the argument of the book. Guest that is great writing. I should have taken a third of the words out of that. One long sentence. A fair summary of the book. When trump ran for president i was wary of him. He wasnt my first pick for president and one reason i was wary of him is he is a populist in the constitution fears populists. Think about populism, fdr, Andrew Jackson and even abraham lincoln, people think they have popular will behind
Today is november 11th, 2019, which marks the 100th anniversary of veterans day in america. Originally known as armsist day, this is a day when we recognize the service of all u. S. Military veterans. Were delighted to mark this important day with a special event designed to salute americas veterans. Im especially pleased that our guest this evening include a fellow north carolinian who is the nations secretary of veteran affairs, the honorable robert wilky. The society of the cincinnati was our countrys first veterans group. Its particularly fitting that the secretary will be providing remarks. Youll hear a little more about that in just a moment. Were gathered here tonight to listen to a distinguished panel of noted historians who will be discussing the experience of American Veterans since the revolutionary generation more than 240 years ago. I also want to encourage you to return to Anderson House and visit us again and look at our very special museum exhibition, americas first vet
In chicago with more. Drone this is a decision to halt production that was reached by the bored of directors from being who med yesterday and today here in chicago. And we have been hearing from people familiar that the board was leaning towards halting as owe posed to slowing it down its currently at 42 per month thats how many they build its been at that rate since back in april. Remember, it was grounded in march. What the company decided, at some point when you have more than 100 built but not delivered, it makes more sense to shut down the line until the grounding is lifted. The workers who are out at that plant in renton, washington, about 12,000, will not be furloughed they will be redeployed to other plants or projects within the company. But they will not be laid off. They will continue to be paid. The question now is, how long does this go how long will they shut down the line and nobody is quite sure the trigger for bringing the line back up will be when the faa is close to
Officer. How they plan to double the number of female employees locally over the next five years and why they are setting targets in the middle of a media firestorm. Libra is not getting love from lawmakers. Add Jerome Powell to the list. Sponsorsthe project Public Benefits including Financial Access for consumers, libra raises serious concerns involving privacy, Money Laundering and financial stability. These should be publicly addressed. Facebook has a couple billion plus users so for the first time you have the possibility of a broad adoption. If there were problems associated with Money Laundering, terrorist financing, many things, they would immediately, they would rise to systemically important levels because of the size of the network. It cannot go forward without there being broad satisfaction with the way the company has addressed Money Laundering, all those things. The number of concerns i listed at the beginning, data protection, consumer privacy, or need to be addressed tho