2. The center, what american holidaymakers would have known, there are not many people around. If you look at the shift, where people are going to get their contact lenses, shopping, it is really more on the outskirts, where the parts of london that are still in Central London but where people have homes, because no one has gone back to work. I think 20 of the city of london occupied. There was a wave of people coming back, and that is where Boris Johnson and announced extra restrictions. But the schools remain open, and this was the linchpin of the Boris Johnson strategy. You close Everything Else and keep the schools open. Johns hopkinsve university with us today. I believe the leadership of outside i will be with us as well. There is ritika gupta. Ritika another legal stepped another legal setback in president trumps bid to overturn joe bidens election victory. Georgiasto halt recount Election Results has been denied. Biden won georgia by more than 12,000 votes. President trump is n
This is the exact moment where Boris Johnson may be about to speak to eu leaders. We understand that most of it is virtual. We are expecting the Prime Minister to give his response on whether he is continuing to negotiate. There was that selfimposed deadline on october 15. We dont know whether he is happy with the progress or whether he thinks even if there is not progress, he still wants to give it a shot. Tom there is your update this morning. Lot, like about the map of the fisheries. Its like a big deal, right . In the north . Francine i remember being a young reporter a million years ago showing up in brussels and actually going to at the time, it was not much to talk about, but our editor said watch out for fisheries, because nobody talks about them. Its always a fishing problem, as we see with brexit in 2020. Tom there we are with your update. Ritika gupta just nodded off. Lets start the show with the bloomberg first word news in new york. Ritika good morning. President trump and
Successor to Ruth Bader Ginsburg this week. The democrats say there is no rush and any decision to wait for the election. Scott larson says he expects a jobs bounceback in australia has covid19 infection start to ease. We will expect the likelihood that victoria reports lower new cases. U. S. Futures under pressure now, down. 2 at the open. This after recite u. S. Stocks falling to a sixweek low last week, the tech selloff intensifies. The s p 500 lost ground for a third consecutive session. Nasdaq flat at the moment after the nasdaq 100 closed below its 50 day moving average. Pressure,crude under after oil has its best week since june. Warningsaudi arabias to opecplus cheaters and shortsellers which helped opec crisis stage a rally last week. Now under a little bit of pressure above the 40 per barrel level as we continue to see the Dollar Strength and in the last session. We do know the dollar has been under a lot of pressure and it is headed for the weakest quarter in a decade. Lets
Stocks are up, all of that to do with powell. The dollar weakness also to do with powell. Real trends in the euro and the pound. Tom no question about that. Right now our first word news in new york city, here is riddick gupta. A Ritika Ritika the longestserving Prime Minister in japans history is resigning after eight years because of health reasons. The government has provided few details. News reports that he has been undergoing treatment for a chronic digestive condition. He plans to stay on the job until his party picks a successor. President trump made his case for a second term and last nights Republican National convention. He promised to cut taxes, and create 10 million jobs in 10 months and turn the u. S. Into a manufacturing superpower. In the new term as president , we will again build the greatest economy in history, quickly returning to full employment, soaring incomes and record prosperity. Ritika the president also warned that joe biden cant be trusted to deal with the
Francine a couple of days ago. They are close in condemning huawei in china. This is over a security law that china did in hong kong with the u. K. Offering to suspend the extradition treaty with china, something that china has not taken so well. Nott punish the u. K. By doing dont touch football. It is something that actually could simmer, but we had a great story on bloomberg yesterday saying that under president xi, we could just see a china versus u. S. , china versus u. K. , as he is ready to take on the world as being the strongman back home. Tom it will be interesting to seal. I will be emailing our chinese brethren, on crystal palace, i believe, sunday. Right now, first word news with karina mitchell. Karina bloomberg has learned there is a settlement in the Goldman Sachs case and malaysia. Elation would drop all criminal charges it malaysia would drop all criminal charges against the bank. China has struck back. He has ordered the u. S. To close its consulate in the southweste