Manufacturer of the drug supplies. Portugal hospitals continue to bow under the pressure of the virus and intensive care unit harder to find. Some of the sick have been airlifted off the mainland. The french Prime Minister has told the country there is still a chance to avoid another nationwide lockdown. He says the coronavirus outbake is still worrying and while a third lockdown is off the table for now at least, further restrictions are being ushered. 23,000 new infections confirmed in the past 24 hours. Our duty is to do all we can to avoid another lockdown. And in the coming days, will be decisive. We must remain very vigilant. But having confidence that at every step, it is our collective and individual efforts that will pay off. For more on what was announced in that press Conference Im joined by International Affairs editor. There will be no third lockdown for now at least for people in france. People watching that speech at home may be breathing a sigh of relief and may not hav
The chinext is lackluster here. Indonesia coming online. The futures are not going anywhere in singapore today. We are watching that dollars story once again. The dollar weaker here. We did see the pound falling after the bop made the clearest signal yet that it may be considering negative Interest Rates. 104. 81 for the dollaryen. Take a look at crude. You better not be challenging us. You are watching a bit of a bid for iron ore. Global coronavirus cases have no topped 30 million with more than 940,000 deaths. Reported the most cases since the lockdown in may. There were more than 10,000 new infections. The northeast of england is introducing tough new restrictions. The bank of england has given the clearest signal yet that it may consider cutting Interest Rates to below zero for the first time in its history. The policy is part will be a similar move shortly after. Here in the u. S. , the Federal Reserve has started the second round of wall street stress tests. Unprecedented restrai
Surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. This is what the markets are looking at. We are trying to look out for any spot here in europe. Are am looking at what we in general focusing on, of away fromare that key data hours away from that key jobs data in washington. Of course labor day holiday, gold taking higher. Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news in london with leighann gerrans. Hi, leighann. Leighann good morning, francine. Avoiding a Government Shutdown right before the president ial election. Sources tell bloomberg House Speaker nancy pelosi, treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin and made this in full agreement on a phone call on tuesday. They were on a stalemate after virus relief to hold up a virus a stopgap spending bill. Meanwhile, Financial Aid to shore up the financial recovery, according to chicago fed president charles evans. He said the stalemate in washington is a significant downsize risk to the economy. Even with the deal, evans down beat on the econom
Some of these well known names here in the u. S. , these are chinese stocks that are listed here on u. S. Exchanges. China mobile, its up just under 1 . Youve got lenovo which, of course, is a chinese company, down half a percent. Alibaba is up one and a third percent. Jd. Com, that stock is also continuing to move slightly higher. As we look at some of these other names, alibaba Still Holding on to gapes of about 1. 5. But lets look at the semiconductors, because one would argue that they are the most exposed to what could have been yet another trade war, but it just doesnt sound like that yet. We have green on the screen. A little bit of a relief rally for intel, up two and a third percent, invidia up two percent. So thats certainly a good sign when you see that those names including other names that are bigger when it comes to, lets say, traderelated, tradesensitive stocks, everything from deere to caterpillar was that the fear was that we would start to see yet another trade war or
Dr. Schaffner we will have to end it now. We will take it to the floor now. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers room, ashington, d. C. , march 27, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable anthony g. Brown to act as day. Ker pro tempore on this signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the will be offered by the guest chaplain, reverend dr. Dan capitol worship, washington, d. C. Me. Chaplain come pray with heavenly father, this morning, humblee to remember your servant, 91yearold holocaust rabbi kahn who lost his this week and just two dais ago at