Meanwhile down in south america and one of the United States favorite playgrounds for political manipulation the people bolivia appear to be saying corporate greed us backed coup detat no more as the Washington Post reports that exit polls issued early monday showed bolivias socialists taking a seemingly insurmountable lead in the countrys bitterly fought president ial elections this comes just a year after the organization of american states or oas through bolivias electoral process into chaos with unproven accusations of vote rigging against them sitting president evo morales the countrys 1st indigenous born president this as you remember helped trigger a military coup that eventually saw the installation of right wing christian zealot and u. S. State department behavior on the 9 yes as interim president and forced morales to flee for his life to mexico and then argentina while now. Now as the numbers continue to pour in showing a major victory for morale says former finance minister
Lets find out as we start watching the whole. Whats going on in a city. Or so you. See the crisis you always still see a. Great city desolate systemic dissent says so which. So brings up as. Well going to watching the hierophant and i believe and joining us today to bring us some on the ground insights into this a store a collection in bolivia is the Latin American Campaign coordinator of code pink and bolivian election observer Leonardo Flotus leonardo thank you so much for coming on today. Thank you for having me on so 1st i want to ask you youre down in bolivia what are the people in bolivia saying about this huge win for luis obviously the former minister of economy and Public Finance under morales and what did you witness as an observer. So i think the people are incredibly relieved 1st of all that theres been no post electoral violence the fact that the mosse won with over 50 percent of the vote means that the you know the country is firmly supports it and prior to this week ther
Are attempting to interfere with the president ial election. They say there was no hacking involved. 12 days until the vote. Spain is the first nation in western europe with one million virus cases. It comes as u. S. Hospitalization rates reach a two month high. Stimulus, the wrangling continues as the white house says the goal is to reach a deal in 48 hours. The pound surges the most in six months as the u. K. And European Union will resume talks over a postbrexit trade deal, just a week after Boris Johnson walked away. Negotiators arrive in london today. Its just gone 6 00 in london. It is 1 00 in washington where procrastination and politics play out. Some read headlines which we have to do first. To germany. We have breaking news there. Germanys daily coronavirus hits a record. Thats 12,330. A quick top line. A blistering beat. 2. 9 9 billion dollars. 2. 75 billion dollars. 36 margin, larger than expected. What sets the agenda for you this morning . Annmarie quickly going back to g
Madrid could announce a state of emergency today. A golden reopening. Beijing is back to work efforts week long holiday. Chinese equities and the yuan outperform. Very good morning to you. 6 00 a. M. In the city of london. Happy friday. Its one week since we learned the president of the United States tested positive for covid19. D. C. Politics is messy. We will talk about that a little bit later. We are 25 days away from the u. S. Election. Some optimism that we have had a bit of shift on stimulus in the white house. Nancy pelosi, Steven Mnuchin, are talking again, but many skeptical we will see support. The hope of that is moving markets this morning. S p 500 futures to the upside this morning alongside euro futures as well. Chinese equities outperforming. We are up more than 2 this morning, 1 00 p. M. In beijing. China is back to work after golden week. Its back with some good optimistic measures when you look at the equities space. The bloomberg dollar index lower against all of g10
Onnce places restrictions more cities. Pedro sanchez calling an extraordinary meeting. House signals it is open to a comprehensive plan shifting its stance as a result. Pushed higher. Gorman goes hunting. Morgan stanley steals a 7 billion deal for the purchase of eaton vance. From our interview with the ceo itself. Himself. Lets look at what futures are doing. Green arrows. See, they are incredibly slight. Not even 0. 1 . The percent missed price indicating a higher open then futures are showing you right now. U. S. Futurest the after stimulus talk. It will more directly affect the u. S. Economy. Nasdaq, dow jones and futures up 0. 4. Breaking news coming through. Lets get to that. First on the macro front. The u. K. Economy, clocking in some growth figures looking to be much worse than the market anticipated. The u. K. Economy grew at 2. 1 in the month of august. The estimate was 4. 6 . We were expecting that rate of growth compared to previous months to come down. A bounce in june, t