Debate could undermine public confidence. Also the former president of the Central African republic is barred from running for office over allegations of war crimes. And a major shift in hollywood one of brothers announces all of its films and 2021 will release online and in the theaters at the same time. Become big welcome to the program more than one and a half 1000000 people have died of coronavirus worldwide and a 3rd of them in just the last 2 months several countries have been reporting record numbers of deaths and among them is italy where nearly a 1000 people died on wednesday the highest since the beginning of the pandemic new lockdown measures are being reimposed to curb the outbreak. The inclusion bit is sage and from the 21st of december to the 6th of january all movements from one region to another are prohibited even to reach a 2nd homes attention on christmas boxing day in january 1st are also prohibited travel from one place to another on the whole National Territory th
And beethoven is for. Beethoven is for crayon. Beethoven 202250 then a verse 3 here on de dano. Snuffly know that competition rivals profit as ties is Sean Facebook with social media giant under increasing scrutiny we are asked what do platforms need to do to keep businesses on board. Also coming up drugmaker pera do reaches a massive settlement over its role in the u. S. Opioid epidemic. You finally agrees on a new Agricultural Policy the focus is on Environmental Protection critics say its not clean it up. This is the degree of business im take ferguson thanks for joining me. One companys loss is anothers gain shares in snapshots Parent Company are up 33 percent after the company attracted the highest ever number of advertisers to its platform in the 3rd quarter the surge came after more than a 1000 Companies Boycotted Facebook for its stance on political speech and content moderation during the summer other platforms like pinterest twitter and guess even facebook itself also rallied
Gunshots in the city as demonstrators came out onto the streets despite a curfew this comes after a peaceful protest was broken up by shooting legendary by nigerias Security Forces. Im told me all of the ball welcome to the program pope francis has said that he supports Civil Union Laws to protect the rights of same sex couples this break from the vaticans traditional position on the issue the pope made the comments in a new documentary about him titled francesco which premiered on wednesday at the rome Film Festival the film also tackles other controversial issues such as racism Climate Change sexual abuse and relations between christians muslims and jews. Im now joined by chicago based journalist Michael A Laughlin he is a journalist and author who covers religion and politics with a particular focus on the Catholic Church michael good to have you on the program how have the popes comments on same sex civil unions been received in the u. S. Its been a welcome statement to many of bt
Lauren i know, it was a rough one. It is worst day since june. Take a look. There is the damage. The dow retreating from that 29,000 level. At one point it was down 1026 points. So i guess being down 810 is good news . The nasdaq and s p 500 also retreating from record closes. All 11 sectors in the red. Tech and consumer stocks hit the worst. The reason, look, guys, there is a lot. Uncertainty over timing of an effective vaccine. Profittaking ahead of a long holiday weekend. September really living up to its reputation as the worst month of the year historically. Let me show you what weighed the most on the Dow Jones Industrial average. Apple, sales force, microsoft. Along with amgen and home depot. Shaving some 400 points off the bluechip average. On nasdaq which snapped a fourday winning streak. Amd, nvidia, tesla, all of them are lockdown winners. Nvidia doubling this year. Tesla up almost 400 this year. After todays drop it is down 20 in the just the past three days. Were seeing mo
Reaches a milestone. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to bloomberg surveillance. Im Francine Lacqua in london. We have breaking news the last 20 minutes. China says that the u. S. Has abruptly closed its consulate in houston. That is having an impact on the market. Lets get the markets. Risk sentiment looks a lot shakier after china says the u. S. Abruptly ordered the closure of its consulate. Most european indices have extended declines to session lows. S p futures accelerating their dissent. I did want to show you gold and silver. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Ispresident donald trump restarting virus briefings. There was a shift in tone with the president urging americans to wear masks and avoid risky behavior. The death toll for the virus in the u. S. Has topped 140,000. Cases are still growing, especially in southern and western states. President trump it will probably, unfortunately, get worse before it gets better, something i dont like saying about thin