Brussels summit in after concerns grow. Leaders are there to discuss china and belarus. The Fourth Quarter starts with a after its worst ever outage. It says a hardware breakdown is to blame. Good morning, everybody. Some breaking news coming through at the 7 00 hour. Lets go to the closing space and h m. We had these numbers in the middle of september. Pretax profit numbers from the business. Further detail here. 48. 9 . Liquidity remains good according to the Closing Company and they say september sales decreased by 5 in local currency. Many stores have local restrictions limiting opening hours. They currently have 166 stores that are still closed. Given the global stretch of the business, perhaps that is something of an achievement. That is the latest from h m. Get to rollsroyce. We have some breaking news coming through. Proposing a recapitalization to start with a bond offering. One billion pounds bond offering. Be 200 pounds. Ll proceeds. Raise growth they are getting support fro
That converted the selloff into a rally. Then came news that European Manufacturing is recovering rapidly from the virus lockdown. That helped the market. Look at it go. The dow is going to be up close to 300 points at the open. The s p, 31. The nasdaq, very solid gain, 70 points. Now, heres another reason for the rally. Big tech, it continues its run. You are looking at premarket prices for apple, microsoft, facebook and netflix, amongst others, all four hit record highs monday. The big tech surge dominates the market. Big tech is pushing higher. Investors this morning ignoring scenes like this. Chaos in d. C. Last night. Right outside the white house, demonstrators vandalized a church, they tried to pull down the statue of Andrew Jackson and they also tried to establish their own seattlelike autonomous zone. This is happening in our Nations Capital right in the center of government. The president s had something to say about this. He obviously doesnt like it. But no word yet from joe
Best month on record in may, but brent and wti move lower in early trade. Amid talk, opec and allies will bring forward to the meeting this thursday. The uk government defending its decision to ease lockdown restrictions as more shops and primary schools reopen today, while the track and Trace Program is due to begin. A very warm welcome to street signs, everybody. Lets get into the top story of the morning. Protests around the u. S. Over the death of george floyd continue as increasingly volatile tensions between demonstrators and police leave many state capitals engulfed in violence. The issue has sparked a Global Movement as residents in london and berlin took to the streets in a show of solidarity. Well go live to minneapolis with our nbc news colleague jay gray to see the scenes on the ground later in this show. So, do stay tuned for that in the meantime, let me bring you fresh data coming out of europe this morning we have final may manufacturing pmis this is for the eurozone as
Flares again in lebanon 19 is pushing the economy closer to the brink of collapse. And the 2 kilometer wide asteroid from the depths of our solar system is due to zip past within a few hours. More lives have not be lost to the corona virus pandemic on u. S. Soil than ole of the americans killed during the war in vietnam a tally by Johns Hopkins University Shows the death toll is beyond 58300 and more than 1000000 people have been infected lets go live now to washington and our correspondent mike hanna so another grim milestone of a statistic mike. Indeed yes. Membrane to that that death toll in vietnam was over a 10 year period whereas the death toll in the pandemic has been within a 2 to 3 month period so certainly a very grim statistic over 1000000. 00 americans infected what that means is that roughly one in every 330. 00 americans contracted the virus but observers point out too that the figure could be far far higher because this is just those who actually tested for the virus and
The g10 space. All european bonds selling off and oil getting wrapped up into all of that. We want to highlight all the market moving news from our washington dc offices. Washington, where you have President Trump speaking last night at a fox the conference about responsibility of china with the pandemic. Pres. Trump we have a pretty good roadmap right now. , we have to 60 protect his people. Maybe they stay back longer. But i think you can have it both ways. I think a lot of people want to go back. They just want to go back. Alix Kevin Cirilli joins me now with more. What else did we learn from the president . Walk this forward now that the senate is coming back to d. C. Today. Kevin good morning. The president in that fox news town hall making a declared a statement as it relates to negotiations with lawmakers, saying he would not support any economic stimulus lesson it includes a payroll tax cut. Drawing aent clearly line when it comes to a payroll tax cut. Predictionssed the for th