Madam Prime Minister our nation stands madam president , our nation stands at a crucial midway point in our battle against this terrible virus. The heroism of health care professionals, essential workers and family ares from coast to coastur got our nation through a spring time like no other. Communities across america put normal life on pause to buy breathing room for our medical system. We essentiallied had to winterize the Worlds Largest economy for weeks on end and spare our people as much of the resulting pain as possible. The task was historic and is so was the senates response. We wrote and passed the cares act, the largest rescue package in american history. Our legislation helped pull both our Health System and our economy back from the brink. Tens of millions of jobs were saved. The hallways of our hospitals did not become italy. The senates leadership helped the nation endure the first phase of this, but this crisis is far from over. The virus that has claimed 40,000 america
The new york newsroom. Blake, we start with you with the latest from the president. Reporter the latest is about an hour away, connell. Were set to hear once again from President Trump, he will be once again bringing back the coronavirus briefings for the first time in many, many weeks. The brief from the white house is they say that the president will be talking about medical advances and the look ahead. That is why they say these are coming back. However when you hear from the top democrat in the senate, there is much different story as Chuck Schumer said today, these briefings shouldnt happen at all. These are going to be short briefings of the president mainly delivering information to the American People that is needed on therapeutics and vaccines. President trump should not take the podium. Every time President Trump takes the podium at one of these briefings he is a threat to public health. Reporter up on the hill earlier today Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell outlined rep
Worsening Downside Risk. Raphael bostic knows joblessness seems to be flattening plateauing at a high level. Netflix plunges on disappointing subscriber forecasts. The Group Announces its chief content officer will join Reed Hastings as joint ceo. Just under an hour ago to the start of cash equities trading. With have a look at what is going on on futures market, a little bit of upside for European Equity markets and u. S. Markets for when we get to the u. S. Trading day. ,eep an eye on nasdaq features quite robust, up around 7 10 of 1 despite afterhours negativity around netflix, contained to just a netflix story, not anything broader about the tech sector. Weve had pleasing reports but they havent always been accompanied. Rising share prices is an interesting dynamic to discuss. Getting some numbers from electrolux, recovering faster than predicted. The numbers look to be broadly in line with estimates. Coming up, speaking to the ceo. The ceo will be joining us later on, jonas samuel
The coronavirus marches on with u. S. Remaining in focus. Aussie prepares to meet with melbourne again under lockdown. The Health Care Sector sees his biggest deal this year. Siemens will pay more than 16 24 premium from fridays close. Shery lets get you a check of how markets are trading. We are seeing u. S. Futures addingng gains up. 1 , to that rally we saw on friday. Have seen the s p 500 rising for the fourth consecutive month. More positive sentiment over potential virus relief packages being released in the u. S. Not to mention the surge in tech shares. We had the nasdaq composite outperforming with Solid Earnings from tech giants. Apple, now the worlds most company valuable overtaking saudi aramco after posting other than expected results. Posting betterthanexpected results. See negativeo economic numbers out of the u. S. With secondquarter gdp seeing its sharpest contraction on record. Rating switching from negative to stable. Oil was under a little bit of pressure because of
To stream relations between iraq and berlin. And the amputee child athletes in the gaza strip giving adults everywhere a lesson in perseverance after a pandemic lockdown they are back on the pitch. Im burnt off is good to have you with us the u. K. U. S. And canada are accusing russian agents of carrying out Cyber Attacks on Coronavirus Research centers in order to steal information about potential vaccines according to british and u. S. Intelligence the attacks were carried out by a p t 29. 00 thats a Hacking Group linked to the kremlin which is also known as cozy bear Russian Hackers allegedly trying to use. Spit spear phishing and malware to gain access to Vaccine Research has denied any involvement. Arthur more now this could i were correspondent in washington. Good evening to you on what exactly are these allegations are we talking about espionage and theft or just as be enough. Both here as you pointed out. If you did 29 or cozy bear are also known under the duke this organizatio