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because. there or more homeless people because more people have lost their jobs and therefore are not able to pay their rent or pay their mortgages and they've been cast into the streets but it's also worth it in the sense as well because the president because accentuated an exhaustive beta creates this thing socio economic trip with regard to poverty particularly interest sex with racism the fact that these protests have been launched in the midst of a pat down but it's even more striking remarkable symbol of the remarkable is the fact that there are young people in the band dark these folks that tends to suggest that there will be a long jump at sea to these protests because these young people are fired up and 3 they're hungry for change and they will not be enough with long standing persistent trends an inequality in us society being pretty lightly put before public eye nice
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due to a public health and economic crisis it shouldn't really be surprising that a diverse coalition political voices has decided to take action but will their action be heard and make it difference it will come up and archie new york. going to be running today the pre-show a company this morning this is an international chillingly for updates often. i don't want to justify all the money printing the fed has to claim that they're fighting deflation. if wages go up that would be inflation and therefore they'd have to stop printing money which means i'd have to stop yelling out back and solve this on the back so by claiming that they're fighting deflation i think gives them
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cover to keep this continuous rolling balance of the zombie. this is boom bust the one business show you can't afford to miss i'm going to bore in washington coming up. in just a little bit for to meet a spirit of compromise and ambition is to take the risk of returning to harder times and for some who are concerned about that in the end it may end up costing us even more tensions are on the rise in brussels as leaders are struggling to reach a compromise over coronavirus relief straight ahead we analyze the block's cope
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with 19 response plus as with cases like in some us states economies are beginning to close down yet again where does the nation stand amid the outbreak we'll bring you the latest and markets are moving out some major shake ups on monday but what does the future look like we'll bring some expert analysis on board we have a packed show today so let's dive right in. and it has been 4 days of arguing insults and just plain old frustration as european leaders have been battling over the passage of an unprecedented $1.00 trillion euro e.u. budget which includes a coronavirus recovery fund now the summit which was originally expected last just 2 days has dragged out amid walkouts more insults and even french president emanuel mccrone slamming his fist into a table out of anger now despite these frustrations mccrone and other e.u. leaders are confident they will reach an agreement. to not meet
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a spirit of compromise and ambition is to take the risk of returning to harder times and for some who are concerned about that in the end it may end up costing us even more so. so i will continue to fight on these subjects in particular with german chancellor angela merkel since as you know we have worked a lot together over the past few days and nights. i have to honestly can best that we still have differences of view between various nations personally i see a chance to reach a deal that there is a will between countries the elements to build a working agreement but it's far from certain yet good afternoon last night after a long negotiations we worked out a framework for a possible agreement this is a step forward and gives hope that in agreement may be reached today or at least in agreement is possible i'm very glad that we the president made the push in may for a really substantial program in this exceptional situation that has now been the basis for the commission's decisions and that is why it has been possible to agree
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on a considerable portion of grants that is the answer we need for an exceptional situation it was clear that the negotiations are incredibly tough. and joining us now to discuss the heated debate co-hosted investigative journalist ben swan it board member of the british american business association which thank you both for joining us to discuss this no but i want to start with you what are the main points causing such friction between all of these e.u. leaders met in brussels well pleasure to be back brant and you're right there is friction now there's been considerable friction has been friction for days at the crux of this is sort of 2 major issues about the same thing there are the northern nations and actually the no that no one is the frugal 5 but the netherlands austria denmark sweden and they they have all gotten together and they actually have decided that they would rather have. the loans and they have put pressure on the
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other nations the more needy nations spain italy greece to accept more in terms of just you know rather than grogs they want to be loans that are repaid back that's the big issue so is the amount the amount of disputed 750000000000. it sounds like the agreement has been made a lot of concessions to be made by this frugal 5 that they will now accept that there will be quite a considerable amount in terms of grants it's looks like 3 $190000000000.00 in terms of grants and $360000000000.00 and tons of love so that's the issue how much and how it will be repaid what the northern nations want is they want to limit the costs and they want to impose fiscal constraints and fiscal responsibility on these other nations. and there's been a lot of tension between leaders of various countries as as we just imagine now to play some sound here from the home gary and prime minister. i don't know what is the person whole reason for the dutch prime minister to meet with hungary but he's
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attacking harshly and making very clear that because hungary opinion does not respect good or love law must be punished financially debts his position which is not acceptable because daddy's little decision about what the rule of law situation in hungary. why are there so much tension and really just hurt feelings here between the hungry. well it's really interesting to watch what's happening here brendan is hillary was saying you know that it's kind of this separation between the frugal 5 in these other european nations but it's really. reached a personal tone with a lot of this you heard right there the language that was being used you know why do they hate me personally why do they hate our country what are they 800 and so you see these very strong language being used one thing i think is happening there is when we talk about you know religion you talk about family or you talk about money things become very personal and in this case you have nations disputing over
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money how much is going to be spent who gets it how it's all broken down hillary the great job of explaining all that but i think one other point to this is you have christine legarde who is the president of the e.c.b. the european. intra bank who is essentially kind of sticking her nose in all this is well saying it needs to be an ambitious plan a big plan and if you come with a kind of a meek or a small or a careful plan as the frugal 5 would probably call it then that's not going to get it done that's what needs to be extremely ambitious but when you use language like that you're really kind of pushing everyone who are leading them to say there's only one right way to do this and i think that's what you're seeing is a complex here over whether or not there's only one right way there are many ways remember as you said this was supposed to be a 2 day conference that's going on for days now and plus now it's the longest meeting since 2000 and all of this is no hillary i want to play some sound from the austrian chancellor here. susan says this is
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a serious issue because i believe we can make lazy compromises here there was a certain degree of flexibility among many countries who we spoke to countries have agreed that we will hold on to a very clear position if you are not willing to go below a certain limit that will certainly make certain debates and discussions necessary you. know hillary there's a difference geographically between nations over there so it seems like well the northern european nations are pushing for a smaller recovery fund as we just mentioned and they also want to limit how payouts are actually split but why is there such a geographical disparity well i would say to that it's geographical and it's also cultural and ben just so aptly mentioned that when you get to issues that a personal like religion on money it can become quite contentious and i think what you're seeing here is you're talking about a difference in cultural sort of work ethic and financial afaik in terms of austerity in the way that countries deal with money you mention the personal issues you know i think it was the you know the dutch prime minister said he said look
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it's not like i would be inviting other people to my birthday party we're going to a birthday cake off this we had to represent on nations and why experts of this what is very reminiscent of actually is sort of trump america 1st these elected official. have gone to bid for their electorate a mock route is under considerable pressure from the electorate to be fiscally conservative the dodge already contribute a great amount of awesome out to the european union budget so in terms of your answer about geographic i think what we've got to bear in mind is this is very reminiscent of brecht's it britain and actually the dr being accused of not remembering david cameron's sort of contentious approach to and ugh we all know what has happened now with bracks it so i think what you'll seeing is you're seeing the cultural difference differences that yes they play out geographically the latin countries the south versus those sort of hard work ethic those nations with the hard work ethic of the north and that's what you're seeing and this is deeply cultural on there were deep resentment resentment from the doc who worked very hard
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to contribute the most just like the british had it feels like as if in the us context if different god the governors came from different portions of the country had a negotiate a budget together where congress is kind of more built for there it's very we're right and you're right brant except that the every day only difference is you're totally right the only difference is that there are even more cultural differences in europe in america i mean things are very different between new york and wisconsin with the whole debate about mosques in your of the cultural divides are obviously yes fall great to absolutely and now ben quickly how important is this deal considering how difficult the process has been so far well i think everything that we're talking about here demonstrates one very important fact there will not be a 2nd round of these discussions it has to happen this time so whatever you get is what you get there is no way we're going to be back and having a 2nd round of talks about a 2nd coronavirus recovery package and who gets what it can't happen so i think it's very important that whatever they determine i think everyone recognises you
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get one shot and that's all you get robust co-host ben swan and hilary ford which of the british american business association thank you both for breaking that down for us pleasure. and we have been talking for months about the big bucks made by for. suitable companies amid the pen demick we have seen companies in various stages of development of vaccines and treatments for coping $1000.00 have exponential stock growth but this includes the likes of gilly novio and novak's just to name a few on monday u.k. based biotech firm synergy and its stock spiked more than 500 percent after reporting their experimental drug was mostly successful in preventing serious symptoms related to cope with 19 in trials the company's s n g 001 drug reduce the odds of a patient developing severe symptoms including the need for a ventilator by 79 percent compared to patients receiving a placebo now adding that those who received the drug were $2.00 to $3.00 times more likely to recover from cope with 19 now the trial involved $220.00 subjects in
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the united kingdom they say more analysis from the trial results will be disclosed in the coming week and with all that in mind let's go ahead and take a global look at the spread of the virus with r.t. correspondent sar where are we worldwide sobran over a 24 hour period over the weekend the world nearly $260000.00 and new cases a new record which brings the total of global number to over $14.00 d $6000000.00 now 30 percent of the new cases are coming from the us which now has almost $4000000.00 cases now the deaths are also on their eyes on saturday we saw the highest one day increase since may which brings the global best total to over 600000 now and to us the deaths have now surpassed 140000 now which also accounts for a quarter of the world's death not globally here's what's happening right now india recorded at least 40000 new cases on monday the highest single day total so far
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now in some less affected areas around the world and countries here are some aggressive measures officials have taken that i want to talk about so there is. new restrictions being placed in israel after a new surge in cases of strain is also now putting new measures in place in response to new case numbers even though they have just over $12000.00 cases and in israel or 451000 also the bahamas a top tourist destinations for americans is banning travelers from the u.s. which really shows you all the numbers here aren't so high the number of cases happening in the u.s. it shows you what other countries are doing that is so aggressive right here even in their case numbers are so low and then on the economy front just from february to may more than 6000000 people in the u.s. sign up for food stamps and that number is likely to continue as billions and unemployment assistance is set to expire this month and then on the testing front
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in order to keep up with the massive demand for testing the u.s. food and drug administration has given an emergency approval for top lab commercial labs to start using pool samples for testings which essentially means that samples from up to 4 people can be tested together and if there was out comes back negative that means health officials will know that all the individuals that test that the virus will be negative but if there was a positive result then it would be followed up by individual testing but many fear that this would just add more chaos and confusion because in some states like texas and arizona some people are already waiting in line for hours to get tested so imagine telling those people you might be positive and then have them come back to get tested again when you think about all this with what's happening in the u.s. where are the hot spots right now so here's some hot spots that actually broke some records over the weekend in california los angeles just reported the highest number
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of hospitalizations in just one day and on saturday both georgia and north carolina reported a single day increases again. and on saturday on arizona they reported their highest death count system pandemic with a total of $147.00 deaths and then in florida which has been one of the hardest states to be over 9400 patients are currently hospitalized while the state continues to break its own single day case record now florida governor run the centers claims that the reason for the high number of cases is due to the widespread testing but that's not necessarily the case brand so i want to do a comparison of florida work country it would rank number 9 in number of cases worldwide and then to draw your comparison for our viewers i want to cheat florida as a country now for example take a look at florida has over 362000 cases are constantly hearing that the numbers in
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the u.s. from leaders is because there is more testing but this right here shows that's actually not necessarily the fact so florida there's been over 3000000 tests right there have a population of 21000000 so they have a testing rate over 14.29 percent but if you want to compare that to a country that's comparable to florida which is australia they have $25000000.00 population now their testing is also over 14 percent but take a look their total cases is a little over 12000 a huge difference from florida and then you want to look at it italy which was really criticized in the beginning for not actually containing the virus they have over 244000 cases now their population is 60000000 right most triple of florida and then they did over 6230000 as they're testing made a 10.38 percent not taking a look at some of the other european countries germany and then there is france
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look at the numbers 23203 over 1000 cases for germany in france over 174000 but then take a look at the testing for example info. france they did $65000000.00 in testing they had a 4.15 percent positivity testing rate but if you want to look at their if you want to compare it to their population still it doesn't make any sense why florida has so much higher k. says and then we look at china i mean they have taken they have over $83000.00 cases they did it over a $990400000.00 total has a population of $1430000000.00 they're testing rate 6.29 percent so again if you had to do with more testing florida sure actually the total cases should be a lot lower than these countries that you see is right here so what are we hearing about the leaders that the numbers all contribute it to more widespread testing in
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the u.s. that is not necessarily the truth and these numbers right here tell that story brant arky correspondents are a tad better thanks for keeping us up to date. and time now for a quick break but here because when we return markets are on the move to start the week but what's driving games and what lies over the horizon straight ahead we welcome back sport analysis to break it all down as we go to break here are the numbers at the close.
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know dares thinks. we here to ask. and welcome back u.s. markets are still running on the back of strength from the tech sector as the nasdaq continues its record run led by amazon facebook netflix google and microsoft you know the tech names meanwhile the dow and s. and p. are struggling to stay flat popping just above even line midday here on monday now traders are now shifting their focus from earnings to stimulus as lawmakers begin to go she asians on a new stimulus package earlier this year a 2 trillion dollars package was put in place which expanded benefits for those
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laid off during the pandemic however these measures are set to expire later this month for more on the mark. and the state of the economy let's go ahead and bring in expert analysis from toby spitz c.e.o. of transformative research and bus co-host christi i thank you both for being here today kristie what are the expectations from a new stimulus package well right now consensus expecting roughly one to 1.5 trillion in this new package especially in light of the carrying growth momentum so right now it looks like risk is kind of skewed to the upside as last week was the 3rd consecutive week that the market has advanced and those games came as a left out from tech names into the most. in more stimulus to make quickly if. they were having a little bit of trouble with christy's mike here so so i actually told you what what are you actually i mean the 1st list is going to be compared with with other governments around the world that the u.s.
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has shown a creepy of this school fatigue if you will and with president trump downplaying the severity of the outbreak there is some consideration around rolling back some of the stimulus going into next year now this time around this next round of stimulus is already baked in but what about after that are we going to see this go into next year is there any other alternative well there's not i mean you go to europe and united states is difficult for one thing but a huge amount of their revenues government revenues are from a value added tax which we don't have in the united states so europe in some ways you know has been stingy but in other ways there you would have a steeper wall because if you're not buying anything you're not collecting any value added tax is right number one number 2 you have you know giant tourist economies and the largest tourist to go to europe china and the 2nd is united states and both of under quarantine so united states is different our issue is that we have 31000000 people not working today out of
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a workforce of 15000000 that's like 5 times more than we had the great recession we don't have the capacity to get to you know. across the plate here to getting vaccines on and so forth until we get into next year and so we've got a plan to do next year and also by the way there's an election in november out in a field where the bread and and so nobody want to be the party that was saying well you know sorry you're not going to get any money now the $600.00 addition that's that's going to be gone it's going to be trimmed down they're going to be because that was one that was just sort of a knee jerk reaction but the idea that you could make more money remember for the senate to be united states work for less than $18.00 an hour so for those people who are unemployed they are making more with the $600.00 plus whatever their state so that's going to go away but they have to pass something and they have to pass it quickly because a lot of people don't know this these unemployment the 600 bucks in is this week it's not next week ends this week so you wouldn't you would see the world come crashing down quickly in the united states because all of
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a sudden people stop spending and christie has already cut you off there earlier what's your response that over there. i think is absolutely right lawmakers actually have to kind of balance out how to both blunt the outbreak but also to lift the economy so congress kind of needs to iron out very quickly and get it and i not that different is on politics including like these liability protections for businesses aid for state and local because that's a big one and payments for rent and mortgage this instant because if not then we'll see a lot of foreclosures and and people being taken from their homes and no toben i want to get back to markets here we have another high profile earnings week to look at here including the likes of microsoft which has been up big since the start of the pandemic what are you looking at for this earnings week well there are 2 things one is that microsoft is a good barometer because it's in every from small business to the largest business . the cap ex spending that we probably plan to have over 24 months even i can say at my company we made it in 3 months so the question now is everybody said ok you
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know geez we just put out 2 years' worth of spending in the last you know 4560 days let's take it back a little bit. so that's the guidance that we're looking for is spending on a pullback microsoft is at a reasonable price all things given the real issue is in you know the smaller cloud players that are selling for 304050 times their revenues everybody says it's a bubble like like to 99 dude i was there 99 that was a bubble ok these are fast growing fast earning completely different business models and they used to be it's all subscription they get sort of 100 percent rights they're getting 12130 percent because they had new services on so it's really the old business model as i call it the bits and bytes against the be the new models against the old which are add up as atoms and stuff and right now bits and bytes is kicking the heck out of you know atoms and stuff and christine meanwhile the i.p.o.
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market is continuing to work now with a group the chinese tech heavyweight that owns the pay pal of china planning a dual offering in shanghai and hong kong bypassing new york what's the situation there i want to hit on that before we get out here well this is an i.p.o. that has actually been anticipated for years it's now launching in shanghai on the new star market and on the hong kong exchange so this public listing will enable and twitch operate a while to digitize the entire chinese services industry drive domestic demand and also expand globally timothy wallet partners and all the other countries so this listing now is following the trend of other chinese tech firms that are trading closer to home and this is a direct snub in the face to the u.s. equity markets escalating the u.s. trying to tension even more over trade technology and finance now so it's seen as a pretty logical move seeing as the u.s. has expressed many times the threat of delisting chinese companies. smith of transformative research and boom bust co-host christine thank you both for breaking down what's going on today. and that's it for this time because boom bust on demand
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