Tom keene is away and no doubt he would like to talk about this, the redhead blind across the bloomberg with continuing eu trade talks year coming from a spokesperson. Lisa, you asked about deadlines. According to the lease latest deadlines, what do we do about trade talks . Lisa i love that you say the tomo want to talk about this, the implication being that you will not. Thats a very, very not subtle subtext here as you talk about what is a deadline, after all. Jonathan he is of course are chief exit correspondent and he will be interested in the headlines, as will many in the u. K. They are rolling up continuing trade talks next year with the Prime Minister engaging with a phone call with the Commission President later on today. Thats the story for the markets. Otherwise not paying much attention to this whatsoever. The rest of the world has been focused on the headlines around the pandemic. Its a record high in the s p right now. Record high and the nasdaq. In the nasdaq we had eig
Probably not today ahead of another call between Commission President ursula and british Prime Minister Boris Johnson. U. K. Banks and Home Builders suffered the brunt of the selling as the ftse 100 outperforms the spot 600 and the pound stays under pressure well, a very good morning and welcome to street signs, everybody. Our top story of the day, no surprise, brexit as talks enter the 11th hour. And we have plenty of coverage this morning were going to get into all the detail, all the latest in just a moment but i want to kickoff by showing you the Market Reaction because its been pretty interesting the moves weve seen so far. Starting with sterling, which is trading up 1. 5 versus the dollar, so currently around the 1. 3240 level this as volatility in sterling has reached an eightmonth high. So a substantial sell off in the currency this morning on the back of this weekends developments as we head into the final talks. The ftse, meanwhile, the main benchmark in the equity market for
A live report from washington and south koreas name is lebanons Prime Minister for the 4th time promising to rescue the very country that rejected him. Lets start with coronavirus updates from the european governments on the continent and in the u. K. Are finding they have no choice in some cases but to impose more restrictions to get a handle on the situation frances Prime Minister has Just Announced curfews that extend further than before and it goes into overseas french territories as well. Weve got spain with the Health Ministers warning more drastic measures are coming spain reach the 1000000 infection mark on wednesday the government is accused of mishandling the crisis survived a no confidence vote in parliament germanys also seeing a rise in infections the daily count there is up about 10000 for the 1st time which is well above the numbers seen during the 1st wave in march but testing has increased significantly must be said the Governments Health Ministry Says the situation is
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Accidental admiral . Guest what a great question at a certain level all of our lives, you can choose to steer a particular course but the sea will come, the wind will come and you will go in a different direction. It comes from a period in my career when i was a four star admiral just finishing up at us Southern Command in charge of all military activities south of the United States and i was very hopeful in going to the pacific as commander of us Pacific Command which is a senior position, robert gates, called me up and said forget about the specific we are going to send you to nato so i became the first and thus far the only admiral, supreme allied commander in nato and it was an accident that did that. From the nato perspective i was be accidental admiral who became the supreme allied commander. Host the navy was an accident as well. Guest somewhat. I grew up in a marine corps family. My father fought in korea and vietnam. I grew up in that environment and went to Quantico High Scho