a fairly strong currency move this week. time now for global exchange. we bring you today s market moving news from all around the world. from hong kong to london, frankfurt and new york come our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this morning s top stories. in asia, the coronavirus continues to spread, with south africa reporting a surge in was also inand that south korea. joining us is stephen engle. give us the latest. stephen: you have another revision out of china as they get previously unreported cases out of five different prisons in three provinces. you have those supposedly isolated clusters adding to the total again. they revealed the numbers and then added more. in some cases, more than 200 ands in chengdu province another in hubei province. more provinces could report outbreaks as well in those supposedly isolated ecosystems like prisons. as well, we are seeing additional clusters in other parts of asia, not just china. you are seeing a surge in cases of anot
it is not clear when the vessel will leave. the ship s crew has not turned on its satellite tracking equipment in newly two months, but there has not been any signs it has left its position off of the iranian coast. the world anti-doping agency is giving russia three weeks to explain possible signs of tampering with data from its doping laboratory. it is an accusation which russian officials fear could lead to a ban from next are s olympics. over the data was a key requirement for reinstatement of russia s anti-doping agency. the computer files were critical in prosecuting cases alleged of cheating at major events. global news 24 hours a day, on-air, and @tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. i m mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. it is 1:00 in new york, 6:00 in london, 1:00 a.m. in hong kong. i m vonnie quinn welcome to bloomberg markets. from bloomberg world headquarters in new york, here are the top stories on the blo
even though he resigned at the request of the president, he signed a resignation letter. it allows president trump to install someone who is of equal or a similar paygrade but not necessarily confirmed by the senate. in terms of conflicts, we have heard that he is obliged or is supposed to clear whatever his actions are with the moeller road through the terminal at department. david: does the fact that we have a majority of democrats in the house affect it? it doesn t right now. presidenttent, the was emboldened by the fact that the senate is more heavily republican than a week ago. david: now we go to rome to talk about the italian budget. said nopean commission thank you very much. why? they said the numbers from italy don t add up. they said the plan does not make enough sense. the economic growth next year will be lower than the government said and the deficit will be wider. the government in italy shot right back and said the eu s analysis was based on incomplete inf
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snapped last week. european markets, let s look at them as well and see how they are faring at this time. you can see down across the board including italy and spain, thanks and france is the worst performer at this hour crude was up a tiny bit, wti kind of a quiet story last week, 56.76 and there s the 10-year yield at 2.38% let s get to our road map this morning on squawk on the street squt general electric slashes the dividend by 50%. john flannery outlining his new vision and a major corporate revamp plus, wall street pullback, you saw stock futures pointing to a lower open investors still closely watching earnings and any progress on tax reform going on amongst our lawmakers on capitol hill. toy takeover, shares of mattel surged on friday jim and i will get into that and into the official rejection from qualcomm of broadcom s bid, a lot to get to actually let s get to ge now. its investor day, just getting under way started at 9:00 a.m. the dow component announces it is