Little point in continuing to talk. Global news, 24 hours a day, on air and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Im karina mitchell. This is bloomberg. Rishaad carrie lam with a lengthy policy address on wednesday. She laid out her vision for greater integration with the mainland. Benefiting from its proximity to the mainland and longstanding support, hong kongs Economic Development will be given new impetus. The key is to somehow open up the border with china, because we are part of china, and the homecoming hong kong economy was not just set for domestic consumption. It was really set for 1. 4 billion people across the border. In any case, most of the key Investment Decisions will be driven by how china is operating and the Big Companies in hong kong are all chinese oriented. So i dont really think a policy address will be of that much difference to investors as it might be elsewhere. Stephen engle has been covering
To challenge records. Eu finance are set to meet today. Italy lays out fresh restrictions. Chancellor merkel urges germans to follow the rules. Bmp bounces back, the french Bank Benefits from volatility. A bullish tone on the numbers. If you look at the bottom year ago, andus a nine months, it is ahead of the target we gave for the outlook for the full year of 2020. We are under one hour until the start of cash equity trading. Good morning. Lets look at futures. Some real strength coming through futures markets sees the european picture up 0. 8 . If we look at the u. S. , we get a similarly positive picture. He saw strength yesterday. We have not erased losses from last week. The coronavirus is still very much with us. Yesterday the u. S. Equity markets recovered to some extent, and in europe, the cac 0. 2 . X up by today we see more of that positive trend. We can see positivity coming through in the asian session. Japan is closed, but we have the asian equity session fairly positive.
Power shutoffs. Well have those details and more coming up in just a few moments, but first we want to bring in meteorologist Mabrisa Rodriguez with more on the fire weather watch. And the impact it will have later on this week risa either jonathan and just seeing and it will primarily impact our north bay mountains specifically those of you in napa county. Could see gusts upwards of 40 Miles Per Hour less starting monday night for wednesday morning dropping relative humidity into the teens as low as 12 at times the same for the northeastern mountains were those of you in Sonoma County so. We are tracking this fire weather watch because it does go into Effect Tomorrow night were getting a little bit of a break from Mother Nature though, thanks to that cool sea breeze noticing some marine layer along the coast and thats really going to help with moisture content even for inland valleys as well for your monday because that cool sea breeze finally going to extend to our inland spots and t
Something positive, right, with that rising case count hitting new records, it seems virtually every day, and deaths also starting to move up in knows hardhit states as well with hospitalizations thats certainly been a focus for Market Participants as you guys well know Scott Gottlieb who we follow closely tweeting about the remdesivir news, very encouraged but needs to be confirmed in a prospective trial, appears to be a receipt peck testify analysis of the face three data suggesting a survival benefit in severe Covid Patients. We have made the point many times it is only good news on remdesivir, but lets remember its an infused therapy in the hospital typically for people who are severely ill what we are hoping for and waiting for are significant antivirals that will have an affect on the virus far earlier in its course so that people will feel much more comfortable in resuming behavior because if they were to get it and these were to be available they could immediately take an oral
Departure delays. Drama of bricks it on aljazeera. The. Catalonia is a region in the northeast of spain it is partially autonomous but in recent years independent sentiments have risen among many cattle and in fact. The former leader of the Regional Government challenge madrid and called for a referendum. Barcelona. That executive office i came here over 2 years ago to discuss with the president. His plan for independence this is what he told me that. The. Economic. Either the positions are young. The only fish or referendum went ahead on october 1st 2017 and the conflict in the escalated. There was a Violent Police crackdown with batons and rubber bullets used against voters. But when the ballots were counted claimed an overwhelming victory for secession even though less than half of the registered voters in catalonia took part in the referendum. Among the dont. And form of the republic. Then announced catalonia as independence from spain an october 27th 2017 but the declaration was s