do not represent a sudden surge when it comes to the daily count. nonetheless, it does mean there are increased worries about how efforts to contain the prices are going in china and elsewhere to date the u.s. confirmed the 15th case. india putting 16,000 people under surveillance and japan reporting its first death, raising the fatalities to three outside of china. david: we are all concerned with the health and safety of the people involved but we also pay some attention to the economy. do have any sense of what ripples this is having through the chinese economy? sophie: some indication of headwinds ahead of the january and february trade figures. we saw chinese card sales taking a hit. alibaba warning of the consequences on consumers and merchants on the mainland. oversee wuhan and hong kong, that is under the scrutiny and the criticism of how authorities in those regions have approached the crisis. david: once again, we appreciate all of your great reporting from hong kon
the coronavirus. the investment committee is ready to go. halftime report starts right now. welcome. good to have you with us on this wednesday. joe terranova, john najarian, carrie we begin today those new records for stocks all three major averages extending their gains. joe, dow, believe it or not, only 500 or so points away from dow 30,000 they recommend buying on weakness that s what investors continue to do. they reiterate their year-end price target of 3600 nothing can stop this stock market. did they mention the federal reserve at all they should be we sat here yesterday and listened to chairman powell and the testimony and nontraditional questions and i think those nontraditional questions were being asked because there weren t relevant questions to be asked because the environment for the federal reserve continues to be a nonfactor. and that s a good condition. it s about continuing to give the liquidity to the markets. yesterday, to your point, he was answe
becoming the 1st foreign language film to win best picture of the us. the global death toll from the corona virus outbreak has reached $910.00 and china announced $97.00 wards at sunday the biggest single day increase since the epidemic began a team of w.h.o. experts is headed to china to investigate and all but 2 of the deaths have been confined to mainland china so adrian brown joins us live now from hong kong adrian that is a pretty drastic number nearly 100 people dead and in one day. yes the statistics are starting to become relentless some day more than 1000 deaths on monday in china we have more than 40000 people on the mainland now infected and of course more than 300 people in other parts of the world who ve also become infected with this virus the world health organization has dispatched a team including the man who led the body s response to the abode of virus and of course this now means we re getting independent analysis on the ground in china which is very very
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