1. 1859. Bond markets also turned around. Higher in moving terms of the yield lower in terms of price. That is reflecting what is happening on the bond market as well and by the equity market. Alix, things are turning around a little bit here. Slightlyut to be a more bumpy end of the week than anticipated. Alix watching quadruple witching as me head to the close here in the u. S. The London Stock Exchange is in talks to sell boris teliana to euronext and two institutions. Joining us now from paris is the ceo of euronext, stephane boujnah. We have learned and there were other bids higher than yours but won. Can you give me insight about how that deal came about, and why . I dont know the levels of the bids, and i dont have information on the computing bids. What i know is that the board of directions decided to enter two different positions with us following the process which was run efficiently. Finalizew trying to the signing of this transaction as soon as practical. An options proces
[inaudible conversations] we are going to get started. Thank you. Good morning. The hearing will come to order. I thank everyone for joining us this morning and i want to especially thank my colleagues for joining us today for the House Committee on business hearing the response to covid19. We have had a hard stop act once again. We will move as quickly as we can but should we not be able to accommodate every member in person today, we will be accepting statements for the record until thursday, april 30. This important hearing i want to mention the chairwoman has been in our thoughts and prayers we wish you nothing but the best as you recover. Small businesses and entrepreneurs play a Critical Role within the american economy. Not only do they employ half of the nations workers but created two out of every three new jobs in the nation. You only need to take the poll from main street america. It is demonstrated Small Businesses and employees and the Response Congress created with a Payc
Cases across our state. 42 more people died yesterday, bringing the number of deaths statewide to more than 1200. And the number of people in intensive care units is up 2. 8 . We are coming out of the states deadliest week since the pandemic began and today at his briefing Governor Newsom said californias curve is bending at still rising. Progress is being made, you are bending, the curve, beginning to flatten the curve, but it is still nonetheless rising. Yes continue to rise, hospitalizations modestly continue to rise, icu numbers, beginning to flatten. We are not seeing that downward trend, we need to see in order to provide more clarity on that roadmap to recovery. Governor also produced number of deaths on race and activity 6 of the states population account for 12 of the coronavirus debts. We are also learning new information about growing number of coronavirus cases at Skilled Nursing facilities across the state, at least 32 Nursing Homes in the bay area have reported outbreak C
The focus has been on what is happening in washington. It was fascinating to see the fade on equities today. European equities are off session lows. We faded pretty precipitously earlier on. The pound is also off its earlier session highs and has certainly faded the early move. A similar story in brent as well. The initial burst of enthusiasm around that deal starting to ease back a little bit. The real question, this is just dealing with the here and now. Are we going to need further help from washington and other governments around the world to get the bounceback that may some people are looking for . Vonnie just getting a headline now that german lawmakers have approved a 156 billion euro stimulus. A few things happening in europe as well. Back to washington, the white house and senators have finally come together in an effort to bolster the economy. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell spoke earlier on the senate floor. Sen. Mcconnell at last, we have a deal. After days of intens
A local news breaking news at 8 Iranian Staterun tv is reporting tonight a ukrainian plane has crashed near tehran. The plane was carrying a 180 passengers and crew members and it is said to have gone down shortly after takeoff. Here on News Agency Reports as a crash is believed to be in caused by mechanical issues, not a missile strike. Reports say the crash happened after the plane left from the e mom khomeini airport in tehran. This comes after iran launched Ballistic Missiles at 2 us air bases in iraq. Following those attacks the f a a band, us pilots and airlin from flying over iraqi iranian and Persian Gulf Air space citing the heightened tensions in that region. And tonight the president is reacting to a missile attack by iran in what is being called revenge against United States joining us now in studio is kron fours grant lotus with the very latest on all of this grant vicki can within the past hour or so the president made his first comments since the events tonight all of th