A crusade against china does anyone outside the beltway really care. To. Cross knocking this and more im joined by my guest in london Marcus Papadopoulos hes editor in chief of politics 1st magazine and we crossed to alexander make your wrists hes a writer on Legal Affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran regiment also cause and effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i was ok lets go to marcus in london mark as i read the russia report and i couldnt help but get the feeling that it was kind of a Cross Section of a buzz feed story and a madison Avenue Market proposal really kind of short on facts high on accusations and evidence free thats my conclusion go ahead mark. I have troops shot allegations paid in a judicial way and in a way. Over law with the courage allegations in that i expect demands in fact evidence to serve who actually accusations and if the evidence is not bad if the evidence is not forthcoming then the case should be dismissed now or as a matter
Surveillance. I am nejra cehic. We are seeing european equities accelerate to the downside. The stoxx 600 down 0. 6 . Futures pointbut to a lower open. The five year yield hit several record lows. Target rangeow the from the fed. Lets get the bloomberg first word news. Laura the u. S. Death toll from the coronavirus talked 150,000 topped 150,000. Texas, california and florida had record cases. Dr. Fauci warned more protection will be needed. He said if you have goggles or a face shield, you should use it. Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg was speaking alongside the bosses. Rom alphabet, apple he says facebook lags behind its competitors. Credit suisse says it will merge trading and Investment Banking and combine its risk function. The chief executive says it is the first major rebound of the swiss lender. Undoes some of the decisions by the predecessor. The bank merger is something we have been discussing for months. Bute will be costbenefits, it is about having one underwriting business to ha
Unprecedented disruption the swiss luxury giant flags a strong recovery in china heineken trades lower as the beer maker plunges prompting the group to intensify cost cuts. In frankfurt, the ecb faces a crucial test will look to prove that it has more fire power needed we bring you more coverage to this runup to decision time. The chinese stock markets plunged into the close despite encouraging growth data. Shanghai composite 4. 5 lower. Marking the worst daily performance in each index since february the china gdp grew rebounding from the First Quarter recession as they use the lockdown and First Quarter stimulus more on the chinese data. A bounce back from growth from q 2 after strict lockdowns and travel restrictions and some of that stimulus kicked in if you look at that key data for the month of june, industrial output lead to the recovery and third output growth of 4. 8 suggesting demand is improving fixed asset improvement fell 4. 81 . Also better than expectations and retail sa
Group. All of the numbers as soon as they hit the tape this morning. Futures showing a mix bag as you can see, excuse me, we have that is arrows across the board. Nasdaq up 34 and a half, s p is up 11 this after yesterdays crazy lateday selloff. California announced lockdowns and when the announcement came through that really did hurt the market. The dow barely holding a gain. We will see if we can do better today. Well, jumping species. Animal to human virus contraction may become more common. How to protect yourself, plus, ford taking nostalgia route with newest suv back by popular demand. Mornings with maria is live right now. Coronavirus lockdowns in the United States and scaled back reopenings both impacting european markets. As you can see red across the board. Weve had improvement overnight with europe. As you can see the dax and the cac 40 down more than half percent. Not in asia, red across the board. Different story from yesterday morning. We have pressure on markets especial
At the same time, we generated more capital through earnings. Thats why are ratio is 12. 5 . Talk to me about the merging of the two units. What is the reasoning behind that . The Investment Bank merger is something weve been discussing for months. Even my predecessor, it was already a topic. 2015, clearlyn the two had to be separated. We had to restructure the trading business. Are at a stage or we can put them back together again. Most of our competitors have it anyway. This is not a cost exercise. There will be some cost benefits. Its really about having one overriding business to have one Investment Bank globally, one equities business. A Global Trading solution business, which build on our success. It serves our equity, fixed income, transactional business for the private bank and institutional business. How difficult was it to do this in the middle of the pandemic . Thomas it was relatively good. You get used to resume calls. Zoom calls. We had many internal calls to get this lin