Minute. Veterans day yesterday in america with the bond market shut down. There is no other backstory in america right now than the pandemic. It has pushed everything aside, including this election. Francine i agree. We will have play more on that. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Here is rick a group to ritika gupta. Ritika the state of georgia will conduct a hand count a recount by hand. Joe biden leaves by leads by roughly 14,000 votes. The Trump Campaign alleged there were widespread election regulators, but there was no proof. President elect joe biden is naming longtime aide ron klain as white house chief of staff. Klain played a leading role during the economic and Public Health crises of the Obama Administration, leading the the job the job is one of the most powerful in washington. Dharna is set to take moderna is set to take a spotlight take the spotlight on a new coronavirus vaccine. It will allow a preliminary analysis of its effectiveness to begin. Moder
Have come on the show saying this was started by the you Recovery Fund, but also inflation is better than expected in europe today, and that growth figure not as bad as it could have been. It is clear that the markets are moving, but i think in general they are buoyed by the Massive Technology earnings that are seeng a lift overall, as we parts of the economy in terms of technology, deliveries, things like that, that are outstanding at the moment. Tom Stephen Engle with us moments ago, and he will join us in the hour, our lead hong kong reporter. This is carrie lam in hong kong, at a not unusual press conference. Stephen engle reports that we could get some announcements out of this rather extraordinary, particularly on the election as well. Are ratherhis that extraordinary, particularly on the election as well. We will get to the data check in a moment with bonds and Foreign Exchange on the move. With first word news, here is ritika gupta. Senate republicans want to go on record sayin
600 gaining. A lot of the focus is on earnings and the economic backdrop. 1134. Ollar 1 it has fluctuated but is very arrangedbound. Rangebound. Coming up, the World Economic forum in davos. We bring you all the biggest names in banking. Lets get straight to first word news in new york city. We begin with the new york senate approving Donald Trumps new freetrade agreement with mexico and canada. It handles the president and a major win ahead of impeachment. The overhaul of the agreement was a priority for mr. Trump. Mitch mcconnell called vote a rare moment of bipartisan cooperation. The white house broke the law in withholding aid the ukraine. Accordingting to an independent watchdog, saying the president should not have delayed money. This is a key part of the impeachment case against President Trump. , quoteg with them obsessed with the u. S. Trade deficit. This is according to bill hogan, saying americafirst policies are bringing about a priceless moment for global trade. This came
Announced plans to move 20,000 people off this island and neighbouring islands by early 2020. Movement on that has been extremely slow. And people, particularly women and children, keep arriving on these islands every week. Also coming up. The driver, being pushed sideways by a lorry down one of londons busiest roads. How Singer Ellie Goulding came to the rescue. Shapps good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Iamjoanna i am joanna gosling. Borisjohnson has held his first Cabinet Meeting since the general election. He told his ministers that they had to repay the trust of the voters by working flat out to change the country for the better. The Prime Minister is planning to make it illegal for parliament to extend the Brexit Process beyond the end of next year. Hell add a clause to his Withdrawal Agreement bill, which will go before mps on friday. 0ur assistant Political Editor norman smith is in downing street. Norman, wanting to send a message, they are definitely hitting the groun
Eve ryo ne brought up. But i think individually everyone wanted to play for england and the fact that we had that would good group of lads, on the Academy Choice we had sam and ollie purpose well. So some talented boys around. Ollie well. So some talented boys around. Ollie pope. Football agent Scott Mcgarvey has been speaking to the bbc about the Daily Telegraph sting operation that saw his client Sam Allardyce sacked as england manager in 2016 afterjust 67 days in charge. He was secretly filmed offering ways of bypassing fa transfer rules. Garvey has been speaking to Richard Askam about the impact the incident had on his life and his relationship with allardyce the friendship you had was severely tarnished. It was for sure tarnished. It was for sure tarnished. Sam was in a bad way after that. I tried to speak to him after that. I tried to speak to him a few times 434 months. Then ijust had to accept that maybe he did not wa nt had to accept that maybe he did not want to speak to me a