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Good morning, everyone. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. This is what the gap. There is a big movement on europound. That is what i would be watching. Also data coming in better than expected but really still under 50 at 41. 7. If you look at the data, the story on the markets is exactly what is happening with euro pound. Now, the fact that france is now floating a veto threat over the brexit deal makes a lot of Market Participants very nervous. I am looking at our live blog, in 2020 at funny expecthe basically says eurosterling to appreciate rapidly through the september high. Leaplks about ready to Tall Buildings if the trade talks fail. Overall, looking at global stocks really pausing for breath after record highs. Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news in london wit ....
Will try to fill in his space as he expresses his culinary abilities. Francine we will get clarification on what he is working on. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika good morning. S p global is on the verge of a giant deal in the Financial Information industry. Bloomberg has learned that the company is in advanced talks to for 44s markets billion. An agreement could be announced as soon as today. It would be the second biggest deal of the year. President trumps coronavirus taskforces propping promising a rapid rollout of the vaccine to 2 million americans i the end of the year. The Surgeon General expects that most americans will have access by early in the second quarter. He says the government hopes to quickly ok requests from two drugmakers for emergency approval of their vaccines. A group of opecplus ministers coul ....
Up to the top of lafayette park, but really it is a nation that awaits the next step from the president. He was out tweeting in the vicinity of 12 00 midnight on general powell. We will talk about that today. It was an eventful weekend and it continues right into this monday. Francine thank you, tom. We will have more on that and now we will get straight to first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika the u. S. City hit the hardest by coronavirus starts to reopen today. New york city will allow construction and manufacturing at wholesale trade to start operating again. Rios Retail Stores can offer instore pickup. If all goes well, new york and reexpand the can expand the reopening in two weeks. Theggressive proposal from minneapolis city council. Majority of its members say they do this they support disbanding the city police department. That comes as the state launched an investigation following the death of george f ....
Shortly. What do you observe this morning, nejra . Nejra im observing headlines coming through right now from andrew bailey, in the core with journalists he is having right now, that it is clearly a commitment to take action, saying the qe program is highly aggressive and appropriately is so. Also saying there is no evidence the boe is targeting any part of the yield curve, but what is really interesting is we did see a little bit of differing views in terms of the decision today. There were policymakers that wanted to extend qe today, but the reaction to the fact we have had no change in policy today is coming. Analysts say we will get more qe in june or august or both, and the pound catching a bid off the back of the boe forecasting the vshaped recovery. That is what i find staggering. A 15 rebound in 2021. Tom i think you are dead on in that, nejra. There is no question what six out within all the excel spreadsheets and the heroic language at this moment, really with depressionera e ....
Is the condition essentially the same day two of intensive care as what we saw a day one of intensive care . Guy it appears to be, the second night in the icu, though, which is significant, so the indications are that he is stable and in good spirits. Basically that is all the information we have at this point. We simply do not know anything more. I drove past this morning, and they were delivering oxygen. But at the moment there is very Little Information about the Prime Ministers epic addition. He is not on a ventilator. I think on the Prime Ministers condition. He is not on a ventilator. Don we are really tom we are thrilled to bring are in. On the state we first word news. Viviana we begin with European Union finance ministers, on an emergency teleconference ....