Nikkei, last 30 minutes of trade. Final stretch of the morning session paid south korea is being dragged down. Currency markets. Sterling, cable, eurodollar, aussie, the sing dollar. 136 following this weeks mas decision and policy response. Fairly flat. We could see more action later tonight and into next week, when you have the likes of chinese gdp numbers coming out. Gyrations on the political scene, i would imagine. Lets go to your first word news and get you updated on the virus situation in europe with the u. K. And france facing tough virus restrictions as global infections are heading towards 40 million. Households indoors going under overnight curfew as they have a new wave of covid19. Daily infections hitting record in germany, italy, ireland, and spain. Reporting the most new cases since april. President trump is ramping up rift with Senior Republicans, saying he supports a bigger stimulus package. He is blaming democrats for delaying an agreement, but says he goes further t
Good to have you with us here is a Member States planned to go deeper into the red than ever before this year to counter the pandemic draft budget plan sent to the European Commission indicated the 19 countries bloc will slide to an aggregate fiscal deficit of close to one trillion euros earlier this year the Commission Suspended to the block stability and growth pact and nord a 750000000000 euro joint Borrowing Program to help the hardest hit Member States pay for the economic damage being done by the pandemic but germany has so far been in a fairly good position both in controlling the pandemic and keeping the economy afloat but rising case numbers here could put the countrys success record into jeopardy. Berlins nightlife is at a standstill for the past week bars and pubs have been forced to close at 11 pm for many this essentially means the end of their business customers are frustrated. Theres really nothing else to do were in our mid twentys and were not going home an 8 pm on a w
Also on the program 14000000 thats how many confirmed coronavirus cases they have now playing world wide and many European Countries are bringing back tough restrictions to counter a 2nd play well hear what italy is doing sure they. Cost thousands of prodemocracy protesters in thailand push on with their demands for changes to the government and monarchy the mostly young crowd say theyre not deterred by a ban on katherines imposed final torricellis well get an update from bangkok. And in the bundesliga shall get their 1st point on the ses and on the board but theyre still with it without a win in 20 linked cabs. Im rebecca riches welcome to the program theyve been clashes between armenia and as a vision despite a humanitarian safe fire a grave there on saturday in the disputed region of nagornokarabakh both sides accusing each other of violating the. Just hours after it came into force it was the 2nd attempted armistice in a wake hundreds have died and thousands have been displaced the
Out his vision to drive new Economic Growth and draw hong kong closer to the mainland. Offapple takes the wraps the iphone 12. And pricey. Analysts say it could trigger a new wave of sales. Haidi all right, lets take a look at how we are setting up going into trading, and australia, weakness as expected with equity futures. About 1 10 of 1 . Reasonablethere were earnings out from banks, putting an end to the stalemate and a contention over another round of stimulus with the white house and democrats in disarray over negotiations. The aussie dollar also trading 158, and we heard from the australian treasurer speaking earlier, commenting on the tensions with china, saying the relationship has been challenging but that it is vastly important and a relationship of mutual benefit. We will continue to watch that and others, as well, given the concerns about the import ban when it comes to australian coal into china. Kiwi stocks, modest to the upside. Going from strength to strength. Of cours
Analysts expect the u. S. Economy to add 160,000 jobs this month after a dire report last month. Will could a miss mean for the fed what could it mean miss for the fed . Iron ore prices slump the most since 2016. Keep an eye on miners at the open. Less than half an hour to go until the start of the European Equity trading day. We were without the u. S. The u. S. Was celebrating Independence Day yesterday. We are without that legacy to build on. We are waiting for the payrolls numbers, as we have been saying in our headlines. We are in a Holding Pattern. Ftse futures suggesting in the event of downside, but review the european suggesting a little bit of downside. Gmm. Have a look at the it gives us a picture of what has been going on over in the Asian Session and it is pretty mixed. The indian centex a little bit weaker, the rupiah a little weaker. The finance minister in india making a budget statement. Plenty about investment in the Indian Economy and where the priority for her is goi