In the wake of several Mass Shootings, he says the senate will look at expanded the ground checks. Red on the table, socalled flag loss to keep guns away from dangerous people. Mcconnell has a post most gun laws in the past. A Political Drama is playing out in italy. His deputy is trying to bring down the countries populist coalition and force snap elections. Salvini wants lawmakers to vote out the government as soon as next week. He says he and his party are tired of infighting with their coalition allies. Global news 24 hours a day, onair, and tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Im Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. Live from bloomberg World Headquarters in new york, im vonnie quinn. Amanda im amanda lang in toronto. Welcome to Bloomberg Markets. Our bloombergby and Bnn Bloomberg audiences. What a week it has been for global markets. We will wrap up the week, and escalate in trade war with the u. S. And china sign currencies, bo
Chinas talking tough about trade and sounding as though compromise is possible. Beijing warned it plans to retaliate for new u. S. Tariffs scheduled to take effect next month. China called the tariffs a violation of the accords reached by President Trump and president xi jinping. The Chinese Government said the leaders have kept Communications Going and hope there can be resolution based on equality and mutual respect. Six european nations are hoping to take the 147 migrants stranded on a spanish humanitarian boat off italy. Italy says france, germany, romania, portugal and luxembourg will help. Global news 24 hours a day on air and at tictoc on twitter powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Im Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. Shery im shery ahn. Amanda im amanda lang. Welcome to bloomberg markets. Here are the top stories we are following from around the world. American shoppers boosted spending in july, following fuel for heightened global uncertai
She tied a mark with her sixth u. S. National championship, while becoming the first woman to perform an amazing move. Yep, that tripledouble right there. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, august 12th. Good monday morning. So glad to be back with you after a couple of days off. A good way to start the week. Did you miss me . He said, did i miss him . I talked to him every day, i saw him when i was in miami. Did i miss you . No, i saw you. So . Tell the people. I miss sharing this desk with you. How about that . Oh, there it is. I just have to force her to Say Something nice. So glad kenneth is back. Hey, thanks. We do begin this half hour with the capture of a suspected killer who had been on the run in tennessee. The search came to an end yesterday hours after he was spotted on a Home Security camera. Heres abcs will reeve. Reporter a fugitive, convicted kidnapper and accused murderer caught in tennessee after a tense fiveday manhunt. Officers from tdot, dhb, tdi, spot
The market moving news from around the world. Joining us on the phone from hong kong is karen lee, from london, emma chandra, and here in new york is michael mckee. First we want to kick it off and hong kong come over the chief executive carrie lam spoke at a briefing following 12 straight weekends of protests in the city. Lam the government is confident we can handle a months long disturbance. I think it is a common goal and hong kong to handle this by ourselves. Alix bloombergs karen lee has the latest. Where are we at . Carrie lam speaking publicly after another weekend of violence, saying they can handle unrest without assistance from chinese forces, and that she still wants to hold talks with protesters. This comes after beijing issued its most direct warning yet, saying in a commentary on state media that the government has the Legal Authority to halt what it said had become a revolution, even though analysts still say such a move remains a last resort. There are calls now for an
Appetite. Alix as you were pointing out, youre not going to see a lot of Movement Ahead of what is going to have any jackson hole. S p futures down by about two tents of 1 . You have utilities making a record high yesterday, so a little bit of risk on the side. You do have dollar u. N. An with its biggest drop yesterday. Time now for global exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news from around the world. Joining us from london is bloombergs emma chandra. From wyoming, Michael Mckee. From sao paulo, julia leite. First, i want to start in europe. Euro area pmis coming in slightly strongerthanexpected. Bloombergs,go to chandra bloombergs emma chandra. Emma we saw the pickup and composite pmi across the area. We also saw in france a return to growth for french menu factoring. The real headlines out of germany were in manufacturing remained in contraction mode is the engine of the european economy is not looking good, fueling those fears of a eightion, shrinking straight months