Begin the trading week. In positive territory. We will talk about what will move them later in the week later in the programme. We are joined by a french entrepreneur described as a Rock Star In The World of proud funding. She will reveal to us her latest plans shortly. And the winner is. La la land. Moonlight . Sort out the autocue what a night. What is your Warren Beatty moment . Get in touch. Welcome to the programme. One of europes biggest mergers looks like it is off. The London Stock Exchange and its german rival the Deutsche Boerse say their coming together is unlikely to be approved by the European Commission. The merger was supposed to be worth just over 30 billion and would have created a giant trading powerhouse that would better compete against its big us rivals. When they announced the deal last year the two Companies Said together they should be able to make cost savings of 475 million a year, about 20 of the combined groups operating costs. They had already agreed to sel
Stocks rapid rise is justified. Good morning. Less than half an hour away from the european open. Lets take it to the terminal and show you what is happening. Where do we think we will be opening with the european equities . W. E. I. , click futures. 3 10 of 1 higher this morning. That seems to be the picture across europe, except for the dax, which looks like it will be something of a laggard. Lets take you now to the gmm and show you whats going on. This is what we need to show you. You should probably take away the bloomberg dollar index, up. Which, the of japanese yen, hong kong dollar, new zealand dollar, australian dollar, all down. You are seeing some movement in the bond market. Japanese 10 year is up. Up 5. 6 lk apparently this morning. Take of that what you will. Juliette saly is here. Juliette the bank of england has found enough bonds to meet its weekly target. Yesterday the bank of england posted 1. 1 billion pounds of gilt, coming after they fell shuort of the target. Cis
State of washington. Weve been in touch with the governor. Today i spoke with a man i happened to like. I spoke with phil in new jersey and were going to be doing something very meaningful in new jersey. Were doing something i spoke with jp called me today. Were doing a lot of things in florida. Were doing a lot of things. Between fema and the army corps of engineers and the admiral in your group in terms of purchasing thats what he does. Hes supposed to be great. Ill tell you in about two days. We have an incredibly group of people. While at the same time, though, were going to be watching very closely the hot spots. Were going to be taking care and watching closely our senior citizens, especially those with a problem or illness. Were going to be watching them
very, very closely. And we can do that and have an open economy, have an open country. And we have to do that because that causes other problems, and maybe it causes much bigger problems than the problem were talking about now.
Also, that news out of florida that you just mentioned. There are no Domestic Travel restrictions really in place right now in the u. S. But what the governor of florida just did comes pretty close. This massive Manhattan Convention center, about to be converted into four field hospitals. A thousand beds between them. We have not even begun to see the influx of patients. This is still the relative quiet before the storm. Every hospital in new york was just ordered to increase bed capacity by 50 . New york state now home to around half the confirmed cases in this country. Now, more than 20,000. Thats tripled in three days. And more than 150 have died already. If we dont get the ventilators in particular, we will actually start to lose lives who could have been saved. The state says many cases are
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It commences. Meantime, we have our experts standing by and we have the facts for you as weve been doing every night on the beat. We begin with these latest facts on the coronavirus. U. S. Cases now topping 40,000. That is more than double since friday night, heading into the weekend. The markets are continuing to struggle. You can see it here today, the dow down another 3 . Thats despite, of course, the new stimulus measures that are already on the way and schools in 38 different states ordered closed. Now, when you talk about the impact on americans, this is continuing to shift and we have the shape for it of it for you. You can see here roughly 100 million americans now under orders, guidelines, or rules to stay home. You may be one of them. All of this providing a backdrop for an escalating clash in the congress, which is now quickly passed, we should note, two bipartisan bills which many people feel was a type of progress. But on this big third bill, they are deadlocked over some