Wie the people will not surrender. But president Trumps Campaign demands a recount in wisconsin and files a lawsuit in georgia as he urges the Supreme Court to intervene in the electoral process. And bank of england policymakers lower their forecasts as they go back into lockdown well be speaking to the governor Andrew Bailey here on cnbc right now the u. S. Election remains too close to call with democratic candidate inching closer to victory. This is where things stand right now. Biden leads with 253 Electoral College votes and trump has 214. The tally leaves the former Vice President just short of the 270 votes needed to win. Counting is under way still right now in atlanta through the middle of the night and is set to continue throughout the morning. But lets take a closer look at some of the key battleground states and more detail in arizona, it remains too early to declare results but biden is ahead. And nevada is also too close to call but a win in both would bring him across th
From theto the concern economic hit caused by the pandemic. We have job losses here with a more modest hit in this part of the world. Else is going on out there and quickly looking at the dollar index is. We do have the dollar steady at the moment. We had the surge in the dollar seeing a little bit of a spike taking place. Being seen as a haven currency. The yen, 104. 49. New york crude, what we have here is a plunge taking place overnight. Nearly 5 . They recovered a little bit from that. 8 10 of 1 . 67 a barrel for wti. Gold the steady, but not really acting as a safe haven. We have breaking news, the dow jones reporting that it may close to buying nc, according to people and what would be the second Big Semiconductor tie up this week as the industry rapidly consolidates this deal. It could be worth 10 billion. Thats according to the dow jones. Dow jones reporting marvell could be close to buying inphi later this week. Lets get our first word headlines. Not european leaders are impos
Lead to care. For School Welcome to the program such a bank has long been in crisis a so far failed restructuring attempt a litany of litigation in the United States and high costs have weighed the company down now it says its on the road to recovery announcing its 3rd straight quarter of profits a bunch of bank returned over 300000000 euros for the 3rd quarter thats more than analysts estimated a boost in trading revenue and a drop in missed credit repayments helped a lot so far this year looks a lot better than 29000. 00 when it made losses in the boot billions of euros as you can see there however the full effect of the pandemic could yet be to come if Companies Fail to pay back loans that could yet damage the companys long promised return to success now. Is the financial correspondent in frankfurt. How well is Daughter Bank prepared for a potential wave of bankruptcies due to the pandemic. Its better prepared than in the past the numbers in the Balance Sheet which describe the Capi
And low inflation. The topic is regularly salient since last week, following an 18month review of his Monetary Policy strategy, the fed released a revised revision of its goals and Monetary Policy strategy. We are honored to have governor Lael Brainard to hear her thoughts on the topic. After we hear from governor brainard, there will be time for questioning and answers from the audience, then we will convene a panel to discuss the new said framework with ben bernanke, janet yellen, and roberto poley of cornerstone , and Julia Coronado of the university of texas. If you would like to post a question to lael on the panel, you can do so by emailed brookings. Edu. Governor brainard has had a long career of Public Service and in academia. She took office as a member of the feds board of governors in june, 2014. Before that, she served as undersecretary of the u. S. Department of treasury from 20102013, and transferred to secretary of the treasury in 2009. I had the opportunity to have work
My name is stephanie aronson. Im the Vice President and director of the Economics Studies program here at brookings. Thank you for joining us for todays event, organized by our hutchens center on fiscal and Monetary Policy on how the fed will respond to the covid19 recession in an away of low rates and lowflation the topic is particularly salient since last week, following an 18month review of its Monetary Policy strategy. The federal open Market Committee will be a revised version of its longer run goals and Monetary Policy strategies. We are honored to have governor board of governor here to offer her thoughts on the topic. After we hear from her there, will be time for questions and answers from the audience and panels to convene our discuss with ben bernanke, janet 12k0 and two marketers there will be more on that later in the program. In terms of questions, if you would like to pose a question, you can do so at email at events brookings. Edu. Before we begin, let me provide a shor