Irelands Prime Minister told bloomberg that the outline of the u. K. E. U. Trade agreement is clear on both sides, but it is not clear that Boris Johnson wants a deal. Has let is set to join the s p 500 next month as its biggest ever new member. Just one hour to go until the start of the european trading day. We have the numbers from easy just. The Lowcost Airline is he easy jet. 4. 5 . Down this is a fullyear set of numbers bearing in mind when the end of the easyjet fullyear is, in november. The revenue is attached below the estimate of 3. 08 Million Pounds. Get to something that loss, 835e, pretax million. That is one of the things we need to understand. It will not the recommending payments of a dividend. A big question for is a jet when we get to see the ceo is, is november the worst of it . Hsbc saying that november may be as bad as it gets for the european airlines. Doesnt feel that way from the aviation flight deck, for could things become more difficult as we get through the w
Ahead of the Conference Call to the g7, leaders, a lot of focus will be on whether they will step in with coordinated action or words to assuage the markets. Ahead of that, markets are rising. The stock europe 600, 4 and the that saw a lot of losses because of the epicenter in europe still in italy, up today. The dax up. S p futures, gains across the board. A caveat. Yesterday, we saw similar gains and they peter off as the day went on. Today, there is expectation from g7 and that the fed will possibly step in. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news in new york city with Viviana Hurtado. With an update on the coronavirus. Governments around the world preparing for emergency measures to fight the outbreak. Drugmakers hope to have antiviral treatments ready within the month and vaccines by next year. Of cases number worldwide, topping 90,000 but reports suggest over half those people have now recovered or have been released from the hospital. Central bank, it has cut rates and signals
Uncertainty on the phase one trade deal, and concern over escalating violence in hong kong dull markets. Conservative election candidates support the Prime Ministers brexit plan. The first headtohead latest debate takes place later tonight. Welcome to bloomberg daybreak . Rope 100 protesters surrounded by police in hong kong. We have learned the schools will be open wednesday after carrie lam says she wanted a peaceful to to the University End the university standoff. Seng isingly, the hang in the green. Other markets like japan declining. A number of reasons being put forward to that. Chinese funds be stepping into support that market. Rba minutes were taken quite devilishly by the markets, spurring rate cut bets. We did see dollar weakness after the meeting between President Trump and jay powell. U. S. Equities is what we saw. Still question the direction and possibility of a phase i deal. It slips another basis point. Crude on the back foot with concerns around rising stockpiles. Ge
we start with the latest fallout from what has been a recent wave of travel dirspution hitting the airline industry. the chief operating officer of easyjet has handed in his resignation after he oversaw a series of flight cancellations and disruption for travellers in recent weeks. this comes after thousands of easyjet flights have been cancelled some at short notice. so what are we talking about here? it s understood that roughly 10 thousand flights scheduled to run overjuly, august and september have been cancelled. thats s about 6% of easyjet s scheduled flights and the airline says the majority of its flights are unaffected with it continuing to operate up to 1,700 flights a day. but easyjet is far from the only business affected by widespread issues hitting aviation at the moment from staff shortages to industrial action. joining me now is travel expert paul charles chief executive of the pc agency. good morning to you, paul. specifically, easyjet, it was all a bit
choices. the scottish government is set to announce whether the toughest covid restrictions will be imposed across west scotland. ministers indicate it s too early to say what restrictions will be in place once the lockdown in england ends at the beginning of next month, amid reports the tier system could be strengthened. and if you d like to get in touch about this or any of our other stories then you can contact me at @annita mcveigh, #bbcyourquestions. easyjet posts pre tax losses of £1.3 billion its first annual loss in the airline s 25 year history. fears for thousands fleeing ethiopia as the prime minister says a military operation in the northern region of tigray is entering its final phase. indian factory workers supplying some major british supermarkets say they are being routinely exploited. we have a special investigation. and coming up this hour. 27 hours after blast off, the dragon spacex capsule successfully docks with the international space station. hello a