brussels and focus with carsten nickel. good morning to you all. for our audience worldwide, this is bloomberg. ♪ ritika: with the first word news, i'm rick a good. in new -- i'm ritika gupta. gunman targeted a federal judge, killing her husband and wounding her son. last week, there is a lawsuit against deutsche bank for alleged ties to jeffrey epstein. the netherlands, austria, denmark, and sweden certified $450 billion of the fund being made available as grants. the result will be in the form of low interest loans. eu leaders will meet again today to work of the remaining issues. the white house and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell begin talks today on a new coronavirus stimulus package. bloomberg has learned the alkingstration is b at $25 million they want for contact tracing and testing. president trump is playing down the resurgence of coronavirus cases in the u.s.. he told fox news that many people experience nothing more than sniffles. the president called the u.s. response to the outbreak the envy of the world and called his infectio