Hello im christine one day its good to have your Company President ial elections in guinea all set for this coming sunday incumbent president alpha conde is going for a 3rd term the 82 year old became the countrys 1st democratically elected leader in 2010 bringing hopes of progress soft ideas of dictatorship and industry rule he says he needs more time to finish big projects guineas constitution has a 2 term limit for president s but in the march referendum voters approved changes to the constitution that conde argues reset the clock on his presidency the opposition say its illegal for conde to run they also accuse him of using deadly force to crackdown on dissent. Taking it to the street the opposition says president out of a calm day has been in power too long and shouldnt even be running the last year the clashes erupted one conde said he planned to run for a 3rd term dozens died in a government crackdown. But a referendum boycotted by the opposition approved an amended constitution
U. K. Sounds a note of optimism. Make my day. Tough words from saudi arabias oil minister. Whoever gambles on this market will be quote ouching like hell. The under an hour away from start of cash Equities Trading in europe. Lets look what we have. Futures not all that convinced in any direction. Weakness in markets yesterday and equity markets, and nasdaq. Ar in u. S. Futures flat and mixed. We do see nasdaq futures heading to the upside. Because ofnificant the selling we have seen. Concerns about concentration and previous gains in the tech sector. We are digesting what we have heard from the fed. In assessments of weaknesses the u. S. Economy. The fiscal boost that will be needed. Lots of questions over the fiscal side of things. Modest gains coming through in asia. Asian stocks of around 0. 4 . The south korean market up a fraction of a percent. Elsewhere, fairly flat markets. Won up to anean eight month high. Dollar weakness part of the story. Keep an eye in oil prices. We mention
End. Reversing what we saw last week, 128 handle on the cable rate. We saw bank of england pushback earlier. Eurodollar, we are trying to get a 116 handle. 11645. The virus is setting the tone for growth in europe. Global covid19 cases are topping 33 million. We are nearing one million in death. Angela merkel warning germany could face more than 19,000 cases by christmas. The u. K. Health minister refused to allow more restrictions despite lawmakers pushing back against government curbs. Joining us from brussels maria, what have we learned about restrictions from different governments . We havent really seen anything new except for what was already announced last week. It has deftly changed in terms of perv Public Perception and tone. Story making headlines across europe is that warning from Angela Merkel that she is concerned about the virus. She is concerned about the number of cases we could see heading into winter and flu season. You have that number narrow there at 90,000 perhaps
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The nasdaq is up second day in a row. That looks safe. First backtoback gains for the nasdaq in two weeks. We have that. Well have a lot more to cover with fox Business Team coverage. Susan li standing by in the new york newsroom. Well get to susan in a moment but we start with blake burman on what was very busy, important day at the white house. Blake . Reporter historic as well. I will keep this short. Were probably getting the president s comments shortly any moment from now. A historic day at the white house where the president of the United States was joined with the israeli Prime Minister with two leaders from arab nations to sign a peace deal. Israel and the United Arab Emirates and israel and bahrain. President trump said he believed there could be five, maybe even six more of these peace deals in the middle east in the works to come. The president suggested that this could be a domino effect saying that he ultimately believes it will lead to the biggest middle east deal of all