Should be appointed to probe unsubstantiated allegations against hunter biden. The president wants an investigation started before the election. Airport isathrow offering passengers a rapid coronavirus test with results in one hour. The tests are available to those flying to hong kong and italy. Those are two other destinations requiring travelers from britain and other countries considered high risk to provide evidence of a negative test result 72 hours before departure. The European Union is pledging 51 million to help three african countries suffering from famine. United nations is hoping to raise 1 billion to tackle the humanitarian crisis in burkina faso, mali, and niger. U. N. Says a record 2 Million People in the region need help, most of them children. Global news 24 hours a day, onair, and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Im Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. Vonnie it is 1 00 p. M. In new york, 6 00 p. M. In l
That really has been down to currencies. The dollar index is up at the moment, but if you look at it over 24 hours, actually, its down by. 3 ,. 4 percent. One of the main beneficiaries of crown weakness has been strength. Sterling has been propelled about 1. 5 in the last day or thereabouts. The dollar weakness has been felt with the yen also moving to the upside. Theres another reason we are seeing upside on equities in japan. Gold not a major beneficiary, though it was at oneweek highs at one stage after the dollar was sagging earlier on. Thats a look at markets. Lets head over to tom. Tom lets get you up to speed with some of the other first word headlines. The Trump Administration is ramping up tensions with china once again, designating six asnland Media Outlets foreign which it says are controlled by beijing. They include the economic daily, which provides a look at beijing economic news. The Administration Says all six are substantially owned or by atively controlled foreign gov
Kennedy nixon. I dont know if we will see element of that, but you will see way over the 80 million four years ago for clinton and trump. The interest is ginormous. Jonathan it is a spectacle. It is golden tv. Does it have consequences . That is the question. Monmouth university come out with a pole that said just 3 they are very likely to hear something that will impact their eventual vote choice. We will all be watching. Will it have consequences . Tom let to get the theater out of the way right now. This is very important. This is case western reserve university, one of our great science and engineering institutions, and the richest , secretary 1800s hayes to roosevelt. This is the history of dow chemical as well. And in the 20th century, it is a city that has been flat on its back for a decade for decades. Joe biden if can speak to these people, and President Trump as well. Jonathan in d. C. , there is still something to talk about away from cleveland. Apparently theres going to be
Stephen mnuchin speaking on the phone today regarding stimulus negotiations with a promise to speak again tomorrow and new york city is back in had the coronavirus spotlight. People refuse to wear a mask still to come, coming up on todays show, embattled e. V. Maker nick la with new lows. Well ask the former auto executive what it all means for nikolas pending deal with gm. Plus, well speak with the newly minted president of shopify about the run that stock has been on. Up more than 150 . Well ask about the recent news of rogue employees stealing some Customer Data. Harl Harley Finkelstein will be our guest. We have the latest headlines coming out of washington, d. C. For us start with you, mike a little bit of low volume churning going on today. Maybe a little apprehensive. Kind of Holding Steady ahead of these couple of known potential catalysts, of course the president ial debate and the jobs number. After 4 two day rally, s p 500 year to date, train day, we kind of had that half 1
Lets take a look at other Asset Classes as well. The big news as we talked about, ftse russell adding chinese bonds to the global bond indices so we are watching chinese assets very closely and we are looking at, when it comes to evergrande, that is a stock that has been seeing a quick turnaround after the stock fell 5 . A looming cash crunch. Bond yields slightly higher here aday, and we are looking for dollar that is looking slightly weaker but steady. We are set to end the week stronger by the most since april for the greenback. The aussie seen quite a slide for the currency this week. We are seeing a bit of a lift in the renminbi on the ftse russell decision and the lira here. Turkey surprising with the rate hike yesterday, but the dollar weakening, a big story here today. First word news. Karina mitchell in new york. Karina good friday morning to you. The Trump Administration has been ordered to delay its ban on tiktok. The judge gave the administration until 2 32 agree. O a delay