Entered a new wave of cases. Europes twin battles. E. U. Leaders make no progress. Chancellor merkel says finding compromise will be difficult as france and belgium are said to have urged e. U. Leaders to step up contingency plans for a nodeal brexit. Very good morning to you and happy friday. What a week it has been. Witharted the week off optimism and euphoria with markets on a high into vaccine news and we will be ending the week on a much more sobering tone. The news coming out in the United States, california imposing a new curfew, with pressure on officials. We wake up to a public clash between Steven Mnuchin and jay powell on unused lending funds and we saw that hit the futures market. S p 500 futures paring some of those losses. We have nasdaq futures relatively flat this morning. Treasury yields steady. In the pound, north of 132. We do have sources telling bloombergs that Emmanuel Macron is urging his e. U. Counterparts to start drawing up contingency plans for a nodeal brexi
California joins texas reaching one million infections. Picking a statement, President Trump bands investments and firms controlled by chinas military as u. S. Election Officials Say the vote was the most secure in american history. Welcome to the program, happy friday morning. Under one hour until the start of the cash equity trading session in europe. We have a mixed picture in futures. European futures looked negative. Yesterday u. S. And european stocks dropped around concern to the extent we may see new lockdown measures in the United States. We have a futures picture where europe is weaker, wanting to play catchup with latterday losses in the United States. U. S. Futures. 2 the upside. U. S. Futures point two the upside. Nasdaq futures are treated like havens during the coronavirus. Lets look where we are across the broader assets, weakness in china. President trump in the last few months of his presidency, focusing on the things he can still act on. China mobile and telecom fall
Former fbi attorney Andrew Mccabe is slated for october 6th on entrapping general Michael Flynn. The lawyer for general Michael Flynn Sidney Powell live at 8 00 a. M. Eastern. Markets showing firmer tone. S p 500 higher by 30 points. Wednesday marks it final trading day of the month and Third Quarter. Weve got a look back and a look ahead. Friday saw a day of green largely boosted by a Technology Stock rally. Pushed nasdaq in positive territory for the week. Nasdaq up 240. 2020 election is over a month away. Both candidates are preparing for first debate of the season tuesday night. We will preview. White House Press Secretary Kayleigh Mcenany is here with the latest. Plus President Trumps pick for the Supreme Court and its impact. Amazon prime day revealed. New date on when you can score the best deals for Holiday Shopping season. Keeping it real paltrow making a buzz this morning. Global markets this morning are having a firmer tone. Take a look at european indices here. Dax index hi
After being shot in the back 7 times by police while the protests continue across the u. S. Against racism in Police Brutality. Also in the news new me is accused of executing dozens of civilians during counter attacks against armed groups and with crunch briggs it talks resuming this week after little progress so far the u. K. Warns the e. U. We want to blink 1st. And only a hard time with all of your sports news server ina williams battles past Sloane Stephens at the u. S. Open shes still on course to equal the record 24 grand slam singles titles. Sunday afternoon in belarus with thousands of people are staging another huge march in the capital minsk trying to keep up the pressure on president Alexander Lukashenko whos choosing to respond with increasing force hes still refer. Using to quit weeks after disputed elections and is turning to russia for help to stay in power Bernard Smith with us to start things off he is in neighboring lithuania of course reporting restrictions keeping
A day before the president ial election. Donald trump signs executive orders for Financial Relief as talks of a new coronavirus rescue package collapse. International leaders will hold a virtual talks in the coming hours to raise aid for the lebanese capital bands as the cleanup continues in beirut from tuesdays huge explosion swards of the city were devastated when 2700 tons of Ammonium Nitrate exploded at the ports france and the United Nations set up a Donor Conference to help u. S. President donald trump has said hell be joining the call. And its estimated that the blast at the warehouse calls up to 15000000000. 00 worth of damage at least 158. 00 people were killed rescue workers are still searching for those missing more than 5000. 00 were injured in the explosion which left 300000 homeless. Alfredo the explosion spilled on to the streets of the city on saturday thousands of people rallied against the government the protests descended into hours of street battles between demonstr