Deal. No let up in germany. Angela merkel ruled out further loosening of measures after europes largest economy records the biggest spike in cases in four months. Asian stocks trade mixed following a fresh record on wall street. European futures point to a positive open. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the program this wednesday morning. Lets have a look at terms of breaking news. Notes coming through mace maersk. The fullyear numbers, 6,000,000,0007,000,000,000. This is new guidance coming through. That is interesting in itself. The guidance we previously had in the year had been withdrawn by this business which operates 20 of the world container fleet. They are giving us this new guidance here. Looking at the underlying profit numbers for the second quarter. This is the backward looking part of it. The underlying profit data is 359 million dollars. They have done better than the estimates. We will be speaking into the management of maersk later on in programming. We have u. K. Ct
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Of dallas. He is appointed in september of 2015 and he represents the 11th Federal Reserve district on the federal open markets committee. Prior to his service for the dallas fed, kaplan was a martial professor of management practice and a senior associate dean at Harvard Business school. Kaplan had a 23 year career at Goldman Sachs and was ultimately named a senior director of the fern before joining harvard into thousand and six. Today, mr. Kaplan joins us to talk about what he believes the road to u. S. Economic recovery must look like in order for the country to bounce back from the damage done by covid19. He is also going to share his Economic Outlook for the rest of the country and into this year and into 2021. Mr. Kaplan, the virtual podium is yours. Right, thank you. Thank you kimberly and thank you everyone for having me here today. I will talk for a few minutes about, as kimberly said, the National Outlook and some of the key things that we need to do and some of the key chal
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Havens. Gold surges with a spot price nearing 2000. Bullish bets on the euro hit a record ahead of todays pmi number. Cash tradings one hour away. Here are your top headlines from the bloomberg terminal. Tictoc terminal tiktok turmoil. Stocks and futures trading mixed. Toe pompeo suggests action protect National Security will not stop with this company alone. Surging baddip on loans. The group says it will accelerate cost cuts. Hear from our exclusive interview with the cfo. 16. 4 billion. They broker a deal for speedway gas stations. Just under one hour away from the start of cash equity trading, take a look at what is going on in terms of futures. Ftse futures down this morning, about. 2 . Dax futures rising. If you were to broaden out this view, you would see an even bigger range. Cac futures are up more than. 5 percent right now. Omx futures are down. 7 . Take a look at what is going on in the u. S. A little bit of a mixed picture as well with nasdaq futures higher this morning. S