Stoxx 600 at a record high. On top of that encouraging news out of china. The pound, 1. 3363, getting a little bit of data with manufacturing. 45. 9 but it is still also indicating contraction. Lets take a look at a share price of electoral a come of , those are down. Mark carney will present the financial report. Thats from 5 00 p. M. London time and we should be a week away from the nomination of the new bank of england governor. Lets get straight to bloomberg first word news in new york city. Boris johnson will appoint new ministers to his cabinet after his landslide victory in the u. K. Election. The Prime Minister will welcome 109 new conservative members of parliament to london. They will take their seats in the house of commons. Downing street saying the government will introduce a law to deliver brexit before christmas. That will pave the way for the eu divorce and take place by the end of january. The International Effort to rein in fossil fuel pollution stumbling after u. S.
Against Pension Reforms adds the government seeks to calm fears but push ahead with an overall of the system. And checking out tesco trades near the top of the stock 600 as the retailers considers a move that could generate 9 billion. Well, a very warm welcome to street signs this morning. Lets kick off with a look at fx markets because we have seen a pretty strong move higher in the pound. You can see here trading around 131. 59 sterling has hit a sevenmonth high against the dollar after a opinion pollex the ended their lead over the labour party the british currency hit a two and a half year high against the euro very strong reaction in fx markets. That seems to be the main way they play. Very strong move there, just under the 132 mark now, were going to have more on the upcoming uk election in about half an hour with managing director at teneo. Lets look at equity markets a slightly weak estart to trade 234 europe following a positive day on friday, not only for european stocks but
March through madrid, to manning where leaders take action on Climate Change. Celebrations in india after Police Shoot Dead for men suspected of raping and killing a young woman. The officers are being hailed as heroes, but there are concerns they may have taken the law into their own hands. And Germanys Social Democratic Party confirms it to new leaders , who are skeptical about the parties governing coalition with chancellor merkels conservatives. Helena i am helena humphrey, glad you could join a. Angela merkel has made her First Official visit to the former auschwitz death camp. The site in poland with the nazi largest death camp in the second world war. This marks the anniversary of the foundation that preserves the memorial. She pay tribute to the victims and spoke of the necessity for men bring atrocities committed there. It is almost midday when german chancellor Angela Merkel arrives at the place that revokes the crimes of the nazi era like no other. Auschwitz. Formerer concen
He rejects borisjohnsons demand for the irish backstop to be scrapped. Hurricane dorian is the strongest ever to hit the bahamas us forecasters describe the conditions there as catastrophic. Its going to go hundreds of miles. We expect that most of the eastern seaboard will be ultimately impacted, and some of it very, very severely. Pro democracy activists in hong kong target the citys airport after a night of violence in which dozens of people were injured. Political leaders from across the world gather in poland to mark the 80th anniversary of the start of world war ii, as the german president asks poland for forgiveness. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Labour says itll present a bill in parliament this week designed to stop the uk leaving the eu without a deal. Sir keir starmer, the shadow brexit secretary, has told the bbc that if the legislation is passed, its likely to delay the date of departure. The cabinet minister, michael gove, refused to commit the government to imp
Than together. Why that is our topic this week here on quadriga and here are our guests. Badly hurt no works for spiegel online she says German Society is just beginning to deal with the disappointment and tromba eastern germans experienced after the fall of the wall. Many people felt their experiences had been ignored the aft feeds off these feelings of neglect. And its a pleasure to welcome my colleague michelle and the kids now shes chief Political Editor here at gw she says most of all these elections are about what options will be on the table when uncle the maccolls final coalition government. Leaves office. And were very pleased to have alan closer back on the show he is an author and commentator for the daily newspaper. He says a generation after the end of nazism west germany experienced an anti authoritarian you three full. A generation after the end of communism east germanys experiencing an authoritarian rippled led by old man. So let me ask all of you and ill start with yo