The cash trade is one hour away. Lets get your top headlines for you off the bloomberg terminal. Trump signsnald executive orders blocking u. S. Residents from doing business with tiktok and wechat. Shares in tencent plummet. The white house and democrats failed to strike a deal on stimulus. Trumps chief of staff says the differences are still significant as the july jobs report looms. We will speak shortly with Standard Life aberdeens deals, flows,bout and his successor. Results are crossing the wire as we speak. Annmarie, what do you see . Annmarie looks like it is a beach. Eps comes in at 7. 0 pounds. And then the first half adjusted pretax is 190 5 Million Pounds. The estimate was just under 180 so that is a beach and we will dig down deeper into these earnings when we have the ceo, next. I know you have some news coming out of berlin right now. Matt that is right. We have Industrial Production right now out of germany. Pretty backward looking because it is data from the month of j
The markets are focusing on what jay powell said yesterday. The market is also focusing on what we are seeing across the globe. The number of infections being weighed compared to the extra Monetary Policy being put out there. Investors weighing better economic figures against the continued increase in virus cases. In other news, metals advance with copper climbing for the fourth day. Manufacturing and services in china. That adds to a bit of optimism. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news with leighann gerrans. China has approved Landmark National security legislation for hong kong at the end of a threeday meeting in beijing for the nations top legislative body. Representativee confirmed the vote. The u. S. Said it is suspending hong kongs special status, making it harder to export sensitive American Technology to the city. German chancellor Angela Merkel is throwing her support behind a radical Recovery Plan for europe. Packages include 750 billion euros of joint debt. Wh
Good afternoon. Everyone seated . All right, can everyone hear me okay . All right, good afternoon, thank you so much, sean, for the introduction. If youre like me youre fascinated by all of the panelists that are here today that have such incredible perspectives on the world and where their jobs have taken them, my goal today and my hope for you is that we are able to take a transcribe trip around the world through their experiences, able to understand the world and which may be pretty complicated and americas role in that, where do we go from here, so lets just sort of do an overview of where we are today. I work in the news world so if you guys think youre being bombarded by headlines, welcome. [laughter] but we have a lot going on, right . I was in venezuela where i covered the conflict there, not easy to see or understand much less explain, we have conflicts in syria, we have conflicts in yemen, and here is whats heartbreaking, we had nearly 70 million displaced people in the worl
And at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan three, Emergency Management officials testify on wildfire preparedness and response efforts before the Senate Homeland security and Governmental Affairs committee. You can watch our live coverage on the cspan now outboard cspan. Org. Since 1979 in partnership with the cable industry, cspan has provided complete coverage to the halls of congress to the house and Senate Floors to congressional hearings, party briefings and congressional meetings. Cspans give you a front row seat h issues are debated and decided with no commentary. No interruptions and completely unfiltered. Cspan your unfiltered view of government. Tech policy experts testify on softwares role in the evolution of the Defense Department systems before a subcommittee. Also addressin enhance modernization and attract talent. This is just under one hour. H subcommittee will come to order. The chair may authorize to declare recess at any tobjectio. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for atte
On cspan2. Next we hear from policy experts on the role of software in defense deptment systems and its use for innovation they also talk about the defense departments culture to enhance modernization and attract talent. This is held by the House Armed Services committee. The subcommittee will come to order. I ask unanimous consent that the chair be authorized to declare recess at any time. Without objection, ordered. Good morning, everyone, thank you for attending. We are here today to discuss one of the most critical enablers within the u. S. Arsenal, software. Software that the war fighter uses is krucial to our ability to conduct operations in the air, in the sea, on land, in spice and in cyberspace. Aircraft carriers will be able to leave you are pier, we expect that the systems and code that we rye rely on will work when needed. Despite this criticality we see a department that collectively struggles in procuring, operating, and prioritizing software. Congress do know when someth