Biggest spike in cases in nearly four months. Good morning and welcome to bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua in london. This is what the markets are doing , european stocks moving to the downside gorsuch any trading sideways, despite record highs on wall street. This is what we are also looking at when it comes to gold, always look at gold because it gives you a good sense of where there is appetite, slipping back below 2000 on ounce. We saw declines in utilities outweighing gains in travel shares, of the stoxx 600 actually gained. Up, the chief executive of the Hong Kong Exchanges and clearing joins us for an interview after the Company Posted a record firsthalf profit. That is in a couple. Of minutes lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. We start with joe biden, it is official. He has become the democraticc nominee for president. The second night saw a slate of speakers, from former president bill clinton to representative alexandria ocasio cortez. Biden himse
Poisoning. Lets get to the first word news with leighann gerrans. Shows joe a new poll biden has a doubledigit lead over President Trump. Ae democratic nominee has 5242 advantage. Meanwhile, the survey also says in theden has a 6 lead battleground state wisconsin. In germany, chancellor Angela Merkel is now ready to link the nord stream 2 gas pipeline the poisoning of a russian dissident. Merkel, whoift for said that the russian backed pipeline should be completed and remains a separate issue. The kremlin has said it sees no issue that germany will block nordstrom. Moscow has denied any involvement in the poisoning. Now in hong kong, protests have resumed after weeks of calm. Police arrested hundreds of people. Among other things, demonstrators were protesting the decision to delay Legislative Council relaxants for a year Council Elections for a year because of coronavirus. India has surpassed brazil as the second worst hit country. India reported more than 19,000 cases more than 90,00
Included 75 previously announced, so the likes of avolon, for example. The stock is down about 0. 3 . We had been anticipate and we would get those numbers today. Once again, boeing lost orders aircraftf its 737 max last month as air travel plunged amid the coronavirus panda make, and of course coronavirus pandemic, and of course, lessors and the like all canceling. Elsewhere we are rallying here for the s p 500. Theres just one sector in the s p 500 lower, and that is banks. We will get to the conversation on their earnings in just a few minutes. Jp morgan and wells fargo out today. Crude oil down on was 5 again. It cant catch a break these days. The 10 year yield at 74 basis points. Guy lets talk a bit about what is happening here in europe and around the world, equity markets and the virus story. We are starting to see maybe some indications that we are seeing a plateau in the number of cases in countries across europe. We are also starting to see some countries reopen their economi
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