No treatments available yet well look at whether the answer lies in a therapy thats worked during previous pandemics. And the union that represents more than 80000. 00 athletes as many schools are facing a financial catastrophe the world prize Association Says the League Season is need to be finished to avoid a huge loss. The number of people known to have died from covert 1000 around the world has gone past 70050000 of those are in europe but the trends there are continuing to show improvements including in spain and britain the Prime Minister Boris Johnson remains in hospital for treatment in tests after testing positive for cocaine 1010 days ago yes been tweeting though that he is in high spirits of germany which has kept its mortality rates low as helping harder hit european neighbors has long been the markle says the e. U. s facing the biggest test of its existence all japanese Prime Minister shinzo has begun steps towards declaring a state of emergency so we have 4 correspondents
Carol and we hit the red carpet to celebrate the bloomberg 50. It is our annual list of those whose 2019 accomplishments stick out. Jason but first, the biggest ipo, saudi aramco. Shares surged to a market value of at their peak. 2 trillion carol a culmination of a fouryear effort from the kingdom. Talking about this, with a lot of questions. One thing to point out. Now it is publicly traded and it it is an ipo, a publicly held company, but only a small percentage, 1. 5 is out there in the public in terms of the company. Reporter the ipo has not turned out the way they expected it to happen. If you remember back to 2016 when they initially announced plans for the ipo, the plan was to sell as much as 5 of the company. What we really have to look at is what is the purpose of the ipo . It is seen as a means of diversifying saudi arabia away from its Oil Dependent economy, to raise money from International Investors and to deploy that on projects outside of the core energy industry. Valuat
Carol and we hit the red carpet to celebrate the bloomberg 50. It is our annual list of those people whose 2019 measurable accomplishments stand out. Jason all of that still ahead. But first off, the worlds biggest ipo. We are talking saudi aramco. Shares surge to a market value of 2 trillion. That magic 2 trillion come at that peak. Carol a culmination of a fouryear effort from the kingdom. Our correspondent is in london to talk about this. A lot of questions. Now it is publicly traded and it it is an ipo, a publicly held company, but it is only a small 1. 5 that is out there in the public in terms of the company. Nini it is. The ipo has not turned out the way they expected it to happen. If you remember back to 2016 when saudi arabia initially announced plans for the ipo, the plan was to sell as much as 5 of the company. More importantly, what we have to look at is what was the purpose of the ipo. The ipo was seen as a means of diversifying saudi arabia away from its oildependent comp
Surveillance. Yesterday, we saw a selloff on the back of the President Trump press conference here in nato. Lets get that board up for you to look at your markets. , they are treasuries extending gains. I am also looking at shares in asia. Stocks in europe edging higher. I am looking at that vote in the u. S. House. And what that means for sentiment on your markets. Coming up, a conversation with londons mayor sadiq khan. First, lets get straight to first word news in new york city. She simply did not have the resources to keep running. ,his, from Kamala Harris suspending her campaign for the democratic residential nomination. President ial nomination. She had a strong start but her campaign failed to catch on. Opec plus sending mixed signals about output. Iraqs oil minister reiterated his view cartels should deepen cuts. An earlier technical meeting ended without any discussion of steeper cutbacks. There are a number of key members, yes, they want to do that. Addition toels in the 1.
Guess, what he expected. Pretty much what he expected. It is. He is doing a fantastic job, not easy, but doing a really good job. I think he will make great progress come october, come november. October. October the 31st. The results, the results will start to show in november. But, it looks to me like he is making great progress. It is an honor to have you here. Well discuss trade. We can drew group pell our trade with the uk and we can i think do a big job. Bob lighthizer is here, our trade representative. Your trade representative is here. Theyre already scheduled a to continue negotiations. For more substantially more trade with the uk. Well look forward to doing that. Well talk about other things also. Boris . Great to be here i hope we can make a our secretary of state of International Trade is here. We hope to get going on that always remembering the nhs is not for sale but everything else, theres a huge amount we can do. I guess well talk a bit about iran and some of those diff