Fed call for urgent action. We are joined exclusively by dallas fed chief robert kaplan. And the debate, joe biden refuses to push back his next meeting with President Trump the white house rules out of virtual clash because of covid19. Quick check of the markets coming online, u. S. Futures right now up. 3 , after the close, we have the white house saying President Trump is open to Something Big or than the skinny bill. It has all been about optimism over stimulus deal, despite conflicting signals on capitol hill. We had u. S. Stocks in the regular session wanting to a fiveweek i. We have optimism on corporate will, adding to the positive tone. Eaton vance jumping after agreeing to be taken over by Morgan Stanley, more on that next the dow higher. 4 , nasdaq. 5 . Oil is gaining. 3 at the moment, climbing to its highest and more than a month. Opec now saying the worst may be over. Demandve boosted their and their crude outlook for the next four years at we have the dollar falling, and
A care worker is convicted of the rape and murder of schoolgirl lucy mchugh, who he killed, so she wouldnt expose him as a sex offender. No home comfort for rory mcilroy at the open he shoots eight over par in his opening round at royal portrush ending his hopes of winning on home soil. And 50 years on from man landing on the moon, we talk to major tim peake the First British European Space Agency astronaut to live on board the International Space station. Good evening. Mps have voted in favour of blocking any attempt by the next Prime Minister to force through a no deal brexit by suspending parliament. The commons voted by a majority of 41 to approve an amendment put forward by labours hilary benn and former minister alistair burt. Four cabinet ministers abstained from voting the chancellor phillip hammond, thejustice secretary david gauke, the business secretary greg clark and the International Development secretary, rory stewart. 17 conservatives voted against the government includi
Towards them when he was artistic director of londons Old Vic Theatre. And we have a glimpse of the biggest Archaeological Museum in the world, due to open near cairo next year. And coming up on sportsday on bbc news playing himself into ashes contention. Opener Mark Stoneman hit the First Century of englands tour as the tourists find their feet down under. Good evening. Robert mugabe, the worlds oldest head of state, is refusing to resign as president of zimbabwe, a day after the military took control of the countrys government. Mr mugabe, whos accused of countless abuses of power during his 37 years in office, is under house arrest and has been discussing his future with regional negotiators and the head of the army. The opposition leader, morgan tsvangirai, has called on mr mugabe to resign immediately. Our africa correspondent Andrew Harding is in zimbabwe and sent this report. This report contains some flashing images. He is a frail 93 year old under house arrest. But tonight, new
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Welcome to squawk alley this friday morning. Kayla tausche and mike who is here to talk about a number of things, including amazon who is posting the most profitable quart quarter, and sales are up 64 to over 2. 5 billion and jeff bezos has seen the net wealth jump 6 billion in 20 minutes, and also joining us is ben schacter over at mckwor rare ri, ckwory and wt who said that if you want to beat margins quarter to quarter, it is best to go somewhere else, because it is hard to know who is going to come out better than expected. Yes, and they will come out once in a while, and then say, hey, we have insanely profitable businesses, including aws which is this Sleeping Giant that everyone is sort of woke up to last year when they started to show it off. It is really, you know, they prove, and it has taken a long time the train the street to let amazon do this sort of thing, but now it is seeming that they are fine to do it. And ben, what surprise d me s that everything outside of aws, and