A simulcast on bloomberg radio, bloomberg television. We welcome all of you in europe and the challenges there, and we will get to you in a moment, and all of you across this nation. It has been week after week at an 800,000 level, even up towards one million a month ago, and the news slow is simply extraordinary. Jon, you have been way out front on the distinction between the virus and pandemic on the continent of europe over to the united kingdom, and the difference with the United States. How urgent is it for mr. Macron, chancellor merkel, and Prime Minister johnson . Jonathan becoming more difficult, and the problem they are having is localizing the effort. Many people in parts of the country that are facing tougher restrictions are asking, what about everyone else . That is the story in the u. K. As london gets upgraded to a new tier and faces tougher restrictions. As we get deeper into the winter, it is not just about the caseload. I think they are much more keen to emphasize and
Contraction than anyone realized , and the statistics on this pandemic are not all that good, are they . Francine now, they are not great. We have that horrific figure of 2 Million People infected worldwide, however we are seeing the u. S. , germany, and others thinking about relaxing the rules. It is different in japan where they are talking about a state of emergency. Today, overall the initial claim tally is said to push the fourweek total to 22 Million People without a job. We will spend time talking about that, and we have a headline from apple. I just got the air pods. Apple plans over a year headphones to bolster business working from home. Tom we have seen apple with product announcements including the smaller i found in the last lasturs, iphone in the 48 hours and they are separated from the collapse in smallcap. Right now, here is viviana hurtado. Viviana donald trump will unveil today plans to relax stayathome guidelines and suggests the coronavirus is flatlining in parts of
Casino, those are the biggest gainers today. But fears over the virus remain as cases in the u. S. , italy and around the world move higher though the president says he would love to have to country open by easter we are up 1700 points on the dow. Nice for a change. We have a huge lineup of guests coming up. The ceo of cvs health will tell us about the companys hiring spree and Virus Testing plans. Campbells ceo will join us to talk about the supply chain and well discuss the administrations actions thus far with mark short, chief of start to the Vice President. Lets focus in on two of the big stories, kayla has the latest. But first, mike is tracking todays market rally mike, over to you. By the looks of it, its a sturdy rally well scrutinize to see if theres more than anything but a bounce it tells you a couple of things. One is a strong bounce is it doesnt look that dramatic next to the decline on just experience really just a step in that direction of trying to make some distance b
Eurodollar at 1. 109. If you look at government bonds across the world, they are actually advancing. This is on the back of german and chinese data. The focus is now on trade. But there is one stock we needed to look at a little bit more. 6. 1 afterining interim results. They have a new partnership with tencent. Well have more on the sector with burberry gating 6. 1 . Gaining 6. 1 . Up next, we talked to the silver lake cofounder about investing in tech. But for now, lets get straight to first word news in new york city. Boris johnson is back in Campaign Mode after a difficult visit to floodhit areas of Northern England where his response was criticized by local residents. In a speech at a factory which makes london taxis, the Prime Minister said getting brexit done would trigger a wave of investment. Jeremy corbyn, meanwhile, said he would not allow a referendum on Scottish Independence in his first term. Bloombergs latest poll average puts johnsons conservatives 11 11 points ahead of
We are getting green on the screen and european equities. Investors are focused on the trade narrative as weve heard from President Trump that a deal with china could be closer than we think. We saw u. S. Stocks jumped the most in weeks. The 10 year yield has jumped some nine basis points moving down three today. Perhaps a bid for safe haven along with risk on trade and the dollar index caught a strong bit yesterday as well. Was that to do with concerns around the impeachment inquiry . Could it been something to do with Charles Evans . The dollar is holding on to that strength in the session. Lots of dynamics to digest. Coming up among dont miss our exclusive conversations with the ceos of xo and ab inbev as well tesco, ab inbev, as well as spains Prime Minister. Boris johnson came out fighting in his first appearance back in the commons. He refused to resign or even apologize saying the Supreme Court was wrong. He challenged his opponents to trigger an election, accusing them of cowar