Attendance today, and the attention, i should say, is focused on the nations capital. Maybe it is an uproar to you. Maybe it is not. It is certainly an uproar inside the beltway. If you have been sleeping overnight, the Trump Administration takes fertile judicial action takes further judicial action against the former National Security advisor john bolton. His book is out, and trust me, it has been. In the news ritika gupta it has been in the news. Ritika gupta will give you the latest on that. Jonathan ferro, i am thrilled to talk to you about this. It must seem so foreign to see this. How do you, being from the motherland, how do you see all of these First Amendment debates within america . Jonathan i am not sure the United States would like to refer to the u. K. As the motherland this morning, so i will avoid my personal opinion on the matter. I do think it is amazing to witness what is happening, which is a man, john bolton, with the rare ability to upset pretty much everyone. I re
Different tone. The tone to me this morning, jon, is fascinating. The crosscurrents in the market, i can honestly say, in a zillion years, i have never seen how odd it is right now with the pandemic news, and of course some of that, china and beijing, wrapped around the reaffirmation of wall street, for some form of vshaped recovery. I was thunderstruck over the weekend, some of the optimism coming out of wall street houses. Jon we will talk about that later in the program. A fresh outbreak in beijing very much the focus this morning, the disappointing data as well. The data does not validate the exuberance we saw in the market as we saw in the month of june. Lisa that is the problem, that demand is not picking up. Even though we are seeing manufacturing pickup and production online, we will see perhaps production the consumer is not buying it. Junell be getting the u. S. Manufacturing press and we will take a look at what else in the day ahead we are also going to be hearing with from
The g10 space. All european bonds selling off and oil getting wrapped up into all of that. We want to highlight all the market moving news from our washington dc offices. Washington, where you have President Trump speaking last night at a fox the conference about responsibility of china with the pandemic. Pres. Trump we have a pretty good roadmap right now. , we have to 60 protect his people. Maybe they stay back longer. But i think you can have it both ways. I think a lot of people want to go back. They just want to go back. Alix Kevin Cirilli joins me now with more. What else did we learn from the president . Walk this forward now that the senate is coming back to d. C. Today. Kevin good morning. The president in that fox news town hall making a declared a statement as it relates to negotiations with lawmakers, saying he would not support any economic stimulus lesson it includes a payroll tax cut. Drawing aent clearly line when it comes to a payroll tax cut. Predictionssed the for th
Lets get your global exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. From hong kong to munich to paris washington to sarasota, florida and new york, our bloomberg voices are on the ground with todays top stories. There are questions about transparency for china. Rishaad salamat joins us from hong kong. Walk us through some of the latest. Now with63,000 cases the death toll up by 121, but the inconsistency in the numbers has led to a lot of questions. Some of them are not being answered, and that has led to people thinking that this disease is not really going away at the moment. We had some optimism a couple of days ago, but that has receded somewhat. Weve also got bickering between washington and beijing. The u. S. Saying they have been denied that. On a microeconomic level, weve got companies such as Fiat Chrysler halting production in one of its plants in serbia. They cant get enough parts out of china. If you want to buy a barbie doll in the future
Francine welcome to the pulse. Live from bloombergs European Headquarters. And francine lacqua. Manus and i am manus cranny. We are joined by ubs senior economic adviser, George Magnus. Francine frances secondbiggest bank has posted its second its second its biggest profit since 2007. Manus she spoke exclusively to the banks ceo. This performance driven by trading. The capital is building as well. Investors like the story of the decision this morning. The shares are opening 9 . They like they say it they like the story of cost saving. Nextillion euros for the two years. Of capitalhe raising targets. Their ratio came out for the second quarter. From 10. 1 last quarter. They are planning to raise this target to 11 by the end of 2016. I sat down exclusively with the ceo and asked 10 how he could explain his performance in the second quarter. We actually have a strong set of results across the board. Close to 9 organically. We also have lower cost of risk. Underlying profitability of 10. 3