Including whats happening new york metropolitan area, for the first time in a long time the verge of Outdoor Dining, an alien concept, has been for the better part of ten weeks. Edward lawrence monitoring the development right now out of washington. Reporter Outdoor Dining, if it is not raining outside and also the heat, you have to deal with that, this was the last governors briefing in newark before the phase two opens, Governor Andrew Cuomo saying he will not do any more briefings, breaking the street of 111 in a row for the pandemic, he did indicate that all five boroughs in new york city are giving are on the way to the green light for the phase reopening on monday with Outdoor Dining, indoor shopping with office work with some restrictions. Listen. All regions of the state have lower infection rates in the state experts have gone over all the data and they will allow new york city to begin phase two on monday. But, covid is not over, we saw much more to do. We have to monitor the
Striking distance, stocks are on track for what would be well see, the first loss in four sessions, but really cant get much of anything out of the future moves right now plus, deal or no deal, tmobile sprint battle heads to court. 13 state attorneys general led by, of course, california and new york are seeking to block that merger. And it is an m a monday, we have two big premium deals in biotech, sanofi and merck. Im going to get to that jim does too stock picking so important there in terms of figuring out where those premiums are going to end up stocks overall set to look for a modest open this morning, this after fridays jobs report rally. That resulted in the s p erasing its losses for last week trade once again in focus here, heard jim talking about it on squawk box. The next round of u. S. Tariffs against chinese goods set to go into effect, this sunday so we are now counting down. And new data Shows Chinese exports to the u. S. Fell 23 in november i dont know how much more th
Sessions we have all the angles of this market selloff covered for you, though but first, joining us for the hour is aerials investments director of research, Charlie Bobrinskoy here at post 9. Thanks for being here. Thanks for having me. Pulloff pulloff, correction, selloff, pullback, was this over due . Well, no, things changed today. The momentum had been wonderful around trade and people say that people spend too much time worrying about trade. I actually dont think thats true free trade is very important and people say in 1776, the most important thing written was the declaration of independence. It wasnt, it was wealth of nations by adam smith the idea that trade helps us all is something that the markets believe in and when that gets called into question, you get an appropriate big reaction do you think that it is, especially based on the comments we got from President Trump today, do you think that the market is, especially with this pullback that we have seen today, do you thi
A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. And you can be part of the conversation. Tell us what you think, just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. Some breaking news now from new zealand where the man accused of killing the british backpacker Grace Millane has been found guilty of murder. Grace millane was killed in auckland last december. The defendant, who cant be identified for legal reasons, had pleaded not guilty. Lets go to new zealand, there is a press c0 nfe re nce lets go to new zealand, there is a press conference happening outside the court now. The verdict of murder today will be welcomed by the members of the millane family and friends of grace. It will not justify the suffering we have had to endure over the past year. I cant see it. Grace was taken away from us in the most brutal fashion a year ago and our lives have been ripped apart. This will be with us for the rest of our lives. Grace was a beautiful, talen
Supremes court is due to rule shortly on whether Prime Minister points johnson acted legally when he shut down parliament. But 1st the deaths of 40 people at an afghan wedding adding to Major Concerns about security days out from the president ial election no one is yet certain exactly what happened in the most a collar region of Helmand Province on sunday night the government says the army was targeting a taliban Training Base where they killed fight is arrested others the question is why so many civilians died Robert Bryant has more from kabul. Both sides it seems are still trying to ascertain exactly what happened on sunday night what everybody is agreed on of course is that there has been a substantial loss of life part of the problem here is mr cuyler district is a taliban stronghold deep in Helmand Province it is a very remote area but the ministry of defense says it is trying to launch an investigation to find out exactly what happened but it is sticking with what he was saying