That really has been down to currencies. The dollar index is up at the moment, but if you look at it over 24 hours, actually, its down by. 3 ,. 4 percent. One of the main beneficiaries of crown weakness has been strength. Sterling has been propelled about 1. 5 in the last day or thereabouts. The dollar weakness has been felt with the yen also moving to the upside. Theres another reason we are seeing upside on equities in japan. Gold not a major beneficiary, though it was at oneweek highs at one stage after the dollar was sagging earlier on. Thats a look at markets. Lets head over to tom. Tom lets get you up to speed with some of the other first word headlines. The Trump Administration is ramping up tensions with china once again, designating six asnland Media Outlets foreign which it says are controlled by beijing. They include the economic daily, which provides a look at beijing economic news. The Administration Says all six are substantially owned or by atively controlled foreign gov
A new home thousands of refugees in greece weave into their camp but there are growing concerns about conditions that. What we fear is the before all that it will be a 2nd border to work at the same of europe. And we have all the schools scouring sparrow edges closer to return to English Premier League title tut tut known all to 7 trophy laden years and real madrid. In corona virus cases across the United Kingdom has forced the government to announce more restrictions as infections wild wide now topped 30000000 official estimates showed the number of new daily cases in england has nearly doubled to around 6000 in just the past week and leaders are warning they could be another full scale lockdown if the situation doesnt improve on new measures to stop the virus from spreading also being rolled out in parts of france and spain it comes a day after the w. H. O. Warned of an alarming rise in cases across europe and israel has now entered a nationwide lockdown for a 2nd time as infections
Integrated device with connectivity built right in dramatically increases the chances that learning is available from anywhere. I think if theres a Silver Lining with covid, its classes like this one. Reporter with classes starting next monday, the Oakland Unified School district is is looking for laptops for 2,000 students. They ordered 2500 laptops in june but theyre not ready yet so students will receive the computers they got last spring. Were going to be using our own devices that are delegated for schools in order to meet the gap. And once the devices came in, well be swapping out. Reporter stateunding to strn Distance Learning. Apple and tmobile say the cost to a School District for an ipad and Internet Service is 580 per student per year, including tech support. Were going to have teams that are dedicated to each one of your districts. If you need anything or have students that need to stay connected or are having issues, were going to be there for you. The Companies Say they c
As much as 10 some optimism that lawmakers are making progress on the next virus relief package we got news republican senators are pushing for 25 billion in additional aid for the airlines. Nasdaq record high, gold record high, oil at a fivemonth high, 59 minutes left to trade, wilfred. Were up 0. 6 on s p 500. Ahead on todays show cbs giving up despite strong earnings and guidance, well speak with Ceo Larry Merlo about the results. Plus shares of twillio up 50 but taking a dip on earnings today. Well take a look at work from home winner. Roku, etsy and zynga analysis as soon as they cross first big stories were watching today, mike santoli tracking action, david faber new reporting on microsoft tiktok and berty on a multibillion dollar tech tale mike, first with you. Objects in motion tend to stay in motion to this rally grinding higher as a lot of the macro forces are pretty familiar right now. Another leg lower in the u. S. Dollar, real Interest Rates are further into negative terr
More than 6000 cases for the same time yesterday. 5500 deaths and our state alone and in the bay area it has surpassed 20,000 in the bay area has seen 537 deaths. East bay officials monitoring an outbreak in concord. 13 residents have died of suspected or confirmed coronavirus infections. Officials have not said when the residents have died. So far more than 2200 Nursing Homes in california have died from covid19. The government Top Health Officials on capitol hill testifying before congress about the coronavirus. Dr. Anthony fauci along with the head of the cdc and fda officials and giving lawmakers an update. He remains cautiously optimistic that a vaccine will be ready and is concerned about the number of spikes as test continue to be positive and reopen. We are seeing a disturbing surge of infections. One of the things is an increase of community spread. Im quite concerned about that. Right now the next couple of weeks will be critical and our in our ability to address those urging