Happy monday. This is bloomberg surveillance. Khan Francine Lacqua in london. Lets get to your markets. Investors, trying to win a number of infections rising with all of the extra stimulus being put out. If you look at what the market is focusing on, stocks are falling, gold is nearing highs on concerns about the virus, treasuries on the dollar hovering below 40 a barrel in new york. Market checks through the day. Lets get to the first word news in london. Here is dani burger. Disappointing crowds for Donald Trumps First Campaign rally since the virus outbreak. The event in downtown tulsa attracted far fewer supporters in the white house had touted. It was overshadowed by continuing criticism of the president s response to the pandemic and his reaction to protests against police brutality. You are warriors. Thank you. We had some very bad people outside. [cheers] we had some very bad people outside. They were doing bad things. I stand before you today to declare the silent majority is
Results, saying the missing 2. 1 billion euros on its Balance Sheet probably doesnt exist. Shift, the bank of england governor saying he gave officials more firepower in future cases. And no holds barred. Slam hongrass set to kongs National Security law when they hold talks today. We are live in brussels. Just over an hour away from cash trading. Arrows inking at red europe, more than one person , ftse futurescks a little down and dax futures off about 1. 5 . U. S. Futures are pointing higher. We see some slight gains, little gain, really unchanged. S p futures up to tens of 1 and nasdaq almost 3 10 of 1 . Gmm . Have you got on the its interesting we see the divergence in u. S. Futures and european futures, a little bit of catchup and European Equity markets. On a fairly flat session for asian markets, at least overall. Some weakness coming through in hong kong as a result of the security law, some more detail on that from china. A bit of weakness in the hong kong market. Broadly, flat
A Liaison Office which was built to foster better ties with the south and the u. S. President signs an executive order to reform the countrys policing will go far enough to address the racism problem within Law Enforcement. And its core reaction to a report in the World Trade Organization that could end a saudi backed deal to point in the premier league see you cancel united. Theres been an increase in the death toll from fighting on the border between india and china india the army now says at least 2020 of its soldiers were killed by chinese troops the armys clashed in the disputed gallow one valley territory in the himalayas Indias Foreign Ministry described the fighting as a violent faceoff and said it was the result of an attempt by beijing to unilaterally change the status quo there. The Nuclear Armed neighbors have been locked in a standoff on the border for several weeks the border dispute between india and china goes back decades but the tension is increased recently the area
Weve been going for school and the coronavirus rates and the simple steroids treatment that is slashing the rate confidantes. Low welcome to the program in the past few minutes north koreas military has announced it would resume exercises near the border with south korea and send soldiers into the Industrial Zone of the border town of case song and follows pyongyangs blowing up of a Liaison Office in case all the u. N. Secretary general says north and south korea must resume dialogue south korea says it will respond strongly if the north does not dial down its actions and rhetoric in a moment well be speaking live with a fright in seoul 1st though this is his report on the escalating situation the complete destruction of a building created at the height of improving into korean relations and with it in the immediate hope of reconciliation. The north has become enraged by defectors who make calls human scum releasing propaganda balloons into its territory kim jong the increasingly influ
Preventing the u. N. Security council from agreeing on a pandemic resolution and also the news reports of threats bloodshed and forced evictions all beneath the shiny veneer of saudi arabias planned mega city. And a virtual vigil in the us for a black man shot dead while jogging in georgia this after the arrest of a father and son is. So were seeing the lines at the food bank stretching for kilometers within the job center is overwhelmed with people it is that physical picture of how badly the u. S. Has been hit by cope with 9 now though we have a concrete figure and its this 114. 7 percent that is the Unemployment Rate for april which tripled from the month before put another way that is more than 20000000. 00 jobs gone for some perspective if we go back this is worse than the global recession which followed the financial crisis of 2008 and if we go back further it even sets a new post war record that was previously in 1902 when unemployment originally 11 percent its no exaggeration t