Tom wti is leading down, no question, francine, but i would look at the remarkable decline of floating oil, global oil, brent crude, well under 20 a barrel now. For it to sustain under 20, a splint to me how some of these nations move forward. You were talking in the last hour with the tourist rector of greece. I dont know if oil is good or bad for the tourist director of greece, but 20 brent crude does not get it done for a lot of other people. Francine i mean, i think the price of oil is secondary. If you are the greek minister for tourism, he was very careful because he wanted to speak to other nations to see if it was ok. But do you issue a Health Passport . How do you do with people congregating in lobbies . A thirdce, it employs of their population. Now to bloomberg first word news with viviana hurtado. Viviana a new strategy to expand coronavirus testing from the white house, that is our beginning on first word. States receiving new guidance on how to build testing capacity, les
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A most interesting day, because we talk about inflation in australia, talk about commodities. But its really all about jobs. Just a little bit of a haze into yen. Tom yeah, i also noticed german yields have again way this morning. One of my great focuses will be to revisit the twoyear and 10year german yield. What i want to ask you about, francine, are the elections in britain k. We talk about them yet . Where are we in terms of results . Francine ok, so the results we find out a little bit later. We already have indications. Yesterday we voted on three things. The mayor here in london, but also local elections. What we know so far is that it doesnt seem to have a huge revolution. I dont know the conflictions of brexit, but well try to analyze it. First off, lets get the news. Thanks, francine. Early results are in from the British Regional and local elections. Nationalists are on course for a Third Straight victory in scotland. Nicholas will extend her term as head of the scotlands se
That is the thing that we do not know yet. He will talk about housing, but listen for the e. U. Stuff. Tom guy johnson, thank you so much. Right now, lets get to our first word with vonnie quinn. President obama is trying to win over commerce in the public on a trade deal. He met yesterday with business and agricultural leaders. He said the video would boost exports by eliminating barriers. Agreementobama this taxes te 18,000 this agreement limits 18,000 taxes and tariffs. Most of them will fall to zero. Vonnie he must wait 90 days before signing the agreement. Then it will go to congress for an eventual vote. Russia might agree to u. S. Proposals for coordinating airstrikes against Islamic State in syria, according to a Russian Defense official. Midair. Wants to prevent confusion in syria. Russian flames have russian planes of already flown into turkeys airspace. The Obama Administration will release about 6000 inmates from federal prisons at the end of this month. The goal is to ease
Rate decision. I was talking to michael mckee, the gdp report dovetailed with the fed. Interesting as we get to the jobs report on friday. Big economic day. Earnings before the bell, time warner. After the bell we have yelped and carlyle. Dotheres the brief, let me the data check before we get to a busy front page. Features negative two, future nothing, nymex crude 100. 34, douth. South. 1300, renminbi currency,er chinese exporting deflation out of china something to watch into may. An incredibly busy morning. Look at the front pages. Heres scarlet fu. Top our front page. Prosecutors considering charges against Credit Suisse and bnp paribas according to people familiar with the situation. Credit suisse big investigated over whether it helped americans as a taxes. Prosecutors trying to figure out whether bnp broke the law by doing business with iran, cuba, sudan, countries we have sanctions with. These are criminal. It could result in the first guilty plea from a major bank in 20 years.