Selling. F positive the u. K. Likely to impose 14 days quarantine. We also have the irish tank barely under pressure the irish bank very under pressure. The bank of ireland numbers today. Boris johnson will appear in parliament and a half hours time. Btps on offer as well. We are up by three basis points. What is interesting is the spread between brent and wti widening on that saudi news. Vonnie lets get to the economy now. President trump telling americans to return to work after confirming the outbreak in his own office. Unprecedentedan 20,500,000 jobs, tripling the end limit rate the unemployment rate. We are joined by bloombergs peggy collins. How does it change the rhetoric now that coronavirus is coursing through the west wing . It has touched the Vice President s office and the president himself at this point. Peggy i think for everyone, the virus has pushed people different ways, and closer it gets to everyones families, the more people realize how widespread it has really gott
Florida, as well as a handful of others. For senator Bernie Sanders, based upon my reporting, i can tell you two things. They are trying to develop some type of operation for a contested invention that has been in the works for several months, but two, to try to change the trajectory and dynamics of the race it what increasingly feels like a unified Democratic Party be fined behind joe biden. David many thanks to Kevin Cirilli reporting from washington. A lot of this market is about testing. Hhsust had alex a czar, the saying 75 thousand by the weekend. Now they say they will not get that out. Drew with an Infectious Disease like this, the key message we have in our arsenal is to try to stop this is to say identify people who are infected and stop them from spreading into other people i saying stay home or be in the hospital or whatever, depending on how sick they are. Ifyou cannot ask people you cannot test people, you cannot do that. We are seeing these afterthefact cases where someb
Well, less of an outperformance, but a little bit of one. We are seeing a bid when it comes to crude. European equities not exactly having the same story as the United States, only up by 0. 1 . Markets actually in negative territory. The you is a little bit softer today. Christine lagarde speaks in frankfurt tonight. Weve got a policy meeting next week. The rand, a little bit of surprise from the central bank in south africa, delivering a to five basis point cut today. The big question, is there more to come . Is there going to be further rate cutting and south africa in what is a critical year for south africa . Somebody are getting absolutely pummeled today. The Canadian Company under pressure on a number of fronts on the train business and the aircraft business. Airbus a220, the ramp up to that program costing more than anticipated, and a buddy are essentially talking about walking away. Essentiallyrdier talking about walking away. Lets get some more insights on these markets and wh
Remarkable considering the last 48 hours. The dollar continuing to strengthen, and crude at a very sanguine 59. 19. Guy lets talk about what is happening here in europe. Weve got a risk rally underway. Stocks reasonably well bid. Volumes pretty good as well, so that is worth paying attention to. Pound down by 0. 3 . Brent crude down as well. The pound down on those carney comments. Lets talk about what is happening with the trade narrative. Vonnie yeah. China announcing that vice premier liu he will travel to washington next week to sign the first phase of a deal with the United States. Joining us from washington is bloomberg trade reporter shawn donnan. It would appear the events of the last couple of days havent deterred china from that january 15 date we heard before for a signing ceremony. Shawn absolutely. This is the first time weve heard the chinese confirm that the vice premier will come to washington. The real theme since this deal was first announced way back in october has b
They want to go to france, they want to go to germany, they want to go to these countries where they came from. That is their home. The u. S. Is not their home. It is not fair we are holding these people and that other countries are not taking them because we are bearing the cost. I think nato should be expanded and we should include the middle east, absolutely. We paper a big percent of nato. We pay for a big percent of nato. If you speak to the secretarygeneral, who is doing a terrific job, he will tell you i raised 130 billion more. It was going down from past administrations every single year. It was down to a low number. I came in and said you have to pay, we are protecting you, we are a part of this. We do not want to be the fools like we have been. We raised 130 million. We had a meeting with the countries. I said you have to pay. I can imagine they do not like me as much as obama and other people. More. E 130 billion my biggest fan in the world is secretarygeneral stoltenberg b