A new high tech car in occupied East Jerusalem. Welcome to the Program Saturday saw the highest number of krona virus cases worldwide since the start of the pandemic and the majority of those new infections were recorded in latin america the region has now surpassed europe in the number of covert 1000 cases some 2 and a half 1000000 and growing rapidly the figures are being driven up by brazil which has reported more than one and a half 1000000 infections while more than 64000 people have died peru and chile are quickly approaching the 300000 cases mexico has also been reporting record new infections it now has the 2nd highest death toll in latin america behind brazil and is under a p. M. T. Here is monitoring developments in the region from bogota in colombia the situation is getting worse there and other countries that have been successful at least at the beginning and trying to slow down the spread of contagion for example here in. Longer that is seen quite unimportant the increase
Major corporations will do almost anything to prevent their workers from starting a union even if it means violating the most basic human rights thats exactly whats happening in this country right now and i have fair and cousins from the trial lawyer magazine to talk about it i saw this article its remarkable we go back to the days of henry ford and put it on steroids lay the story out for us what is interesting because what were finding out now is that this practice of surveilling workers has not only been continuing over the years but its evolved and one of the more Disgusting Things that were seeing happening right now it happens to be of course with amazon at whole foods which amazon now owns theyre using heat map technology to try and determine if their workers are meeting in in large groups while there were. Working to see if theyre possibly unionizing because any time amazon believes you have workers congregating together that could be potential union talk and that of course is
Parents will keep the children home. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. A lot going on in the markets. We have several markets closed because of the german holiday. In atnufacturing coming 39. 4, touch below estimates. We were expecting 39. 5. The impact on the euro is pretty minimal. The focus is whats going on between the u. S. And china the focus on the rally. Investors are shrugging off this political unrest in the u. S. Followingng at dollar with treasury. U. S. Is planning and expanded to 17 in the autumn. He says he also would like to invite leaders from russia and south korea. Inclusion of russia is likely to be the most controversial. It was suspended what was then the g8 when it annexed crimea. South africa emerges from its lockdown. Proposing a range of measures including hedge fund and financing for structure spending. They say there are limits to what Central Banks can do for the economy. Because theyve been useessful, then we can central bank to solve our problems. Do u.
And bank ofs, citi, america all reporting today after j. P. Morgan and wells fargo yesterday. The pboc cuts mediumterm borrowing costs again amid expectations of further easing, after the imf warns this years downturn could match that of the Great Depression. We are just under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading across europe. Lets take a look at how futures are trading. We had gains in the cash trade yesterday in europe, with the exception of the ftse, and big gains in the u. S. To close the session last night. Mixed trade in asia as the earnings season began to kind of way on some investors sentiment. As a result, we see european futures down this morning. Nasdaq, u. S. Futures down as well, about two thirds of 1 . Lets get you the bloomberg first word news from the terminal. President trump says he is suspending u. S. Funding for the World Health Organization while his administration reviews its response to the coronavirus. He says the who was slow to share informatio
Welcome everybody. Am the director unfortunately, there are travel our guestsone of that were going to join us for the panel will not be able to make it anymore. We are mindful that there is an all male panel and we are doing as much is possible to include women in our vents. In our events. It is important to address how resolutions can be important to all venezuelans. We are discussing a very timely topic the implications of the tr,ican treaty, known as for its initials in spanish. The United States and 11 other invoked at the treaty to facilitate original response to the crisis in venezuela. On september 23 the 19 membert of countries voided and agreed to onose targeted sanctions Nicolas Maduro and also pledged to meet again within two months to discuss additional measures. These deliberations have potential implications for u. S. Policy and that is why we are here to walk us through the implications and what the treaty means, and how this affects the crisis. A timely issuey because