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Good morning on bloomberg radio. Good morning on bloomberg television. It is extraordinary to be the beginning on global wall street of the holiday season, and i can never i can never think, even the tragedy of 9 11, i cant imagine how much of a tragedy this holiday will be with the pandemic. Jonathan the numbers are terrible. We talked about it an hour ago. We started this month with daily infections in and around 80,000. That has doubled in 11 days. If Health Care Capacity gets tested, they wi...

July. It is the last week in july and we are running out of Unemployment Benefits and the rent is due august 1. There is a lot going on. Francine we will spend a lot of time on that. Lets get to first word news gupta. Itika group unveileditch mcconnell the new relief package, listing unemployment to 70 of prepandemic wages. Makes to pelosi panned that proposal. Health officials around the world are getting a reminder of how tough it is to permanently stamp out coronavirus. They are grappling wit...

Over the weekend. We are inching closer to that alltime high when it comes to laterchina that was set september. Of focus. Was one those are the biggest movers here today and in particular, they may be looking at that emergency in tokyo and some of the surrounding areas as well as hokkaido. Those are holding amid some of and we are tensions watching currencies as well. We are obviously watching dollar china and dollaryen. You are seeing some of these china proxies following the ram be lower. For...

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at the post office after the chairman of the organisation stood down yesterday. henry staunton left the role following the fall—out from the horizon it scandal. but theres confusion over whether it was by "mutual consent" as reported by the government, or whether he was asked to leave, as the post office says. our political correspondent iain watson has the latest. it has been thrown out enough, that is it, i am free. it has been thrown out enough, that is it. i am free-— is it, i ...

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He hits his eighth hat trick of 2017 and breaks the record for the most premier League Goals Scored in a calendar year as tottenham thrash southampton. Englands misery continues down under. They have it all to do after david warner hits a century on the opening day of the fourth ashes test. And might bite wins the days feature race, the king george the sixth, to give trainer Nicky Henderson a big race double at kempton. Hello and welcome to sportsday. What a year its been for harry kane, his hat...

Phil has the rest of the weather for the uk. A very good morning. A cold, bright day to many cup parts of the British Isles but in the nicks, snow has been falling and continues to fall in some areas. In the mix. Good morning. First, our main story. Thousands of homes are without power in england and wales, as overnight snowfall has brought down power lines. Western power says 14,000 properties are affected, from cornwall to sheffield. Meanwhile, parts of the mi, m5 and m42 motorways are also af...

Welshing thank you what a great start to the day chris you can be on this show any day you want. Thank you. Have you talk to manage. First. We will work it out. So sweet thank you. Hi mom. The satellite radar picture shows, nothing, we did have those pop up isolated showers and thunderstorms last night and they were really isolated. Not everybody saw rain but some people did. Our frontal system from yesterday has settled to the the south and so there are then are storms in virginia but nothing f...

We have a lot of news for you. We need to look at the debate over the u. S. First things first. Lets quickly get onto your market check. This is what i am seeing overall. Losing somes momentum as investors try to digest recent gains spurred by the prospect of tax cuts in the u. S. , but also optimism for global growth. I am looking at oil over in texas. West texas crude sledding to 50 a barrel. Im also looking at gold. The dollar remains higher against most of its major counterparts. Im also loo...