Of new cases had been flat or decreasing since a peak in early august, but the number has begun creeping up. The panel noted increases in hokkaido, tohoku and northern kanto regions as well as parts of okinawa. They say its a result of infection clusters and people visiting or leaving tokyo and the surrounding prefectures where there is no drop in infection rates. But the number of hospitalizations remains flat nationwide and the number of patients in serious condition is reportedly decling. The experts say provincial entertainment districts and expat communities could become super spreader sis teand they are calling for more Health Notices and tests in those areas, and they warn japan could see the kinds of explosive spread of infections in europe unless infections are dealt with. In australia authorities in the state of victoria have lifted coronavirus restrictions in and around the city of melbourne for the first time in about four months. Three, two, one. Whoo the city has been und
Thedual listing could be biggest share sale in history. Softbank makes headlines again. Amassedid to have 20 billion in a stock trading movement despite a skeptical response from shareholders. Lets take a look at how markets are trading at the moment. At this as we are just getting some line through when it comes to the reserve bank of australias assistant governor. They are giving a speech saying it is more complex to assess the policy stance than it has been in the past. Due to the economic and fiscal conditions at play. We will continue to monitor some of those comments and we are also looking ahead to the rba Meeting Minutes as well. We are seeing downside in the first couple of minutes or so, trading in sydney on 5. 1 and then new zealand, that market is back to modest gains as we continue to process the outcome of the victory we saw from the Prime Minister and her resounding reelection effort over the weekend. The nikkei 225 seeing upside when we get into the open of. 25 of where
Japans ruling party gets set to pick a new leader. The next Prime Ministers have a tough task of leading the nation after the pandemic. Shery lets get you started with a quick check of how markets are trading. U. S. Futures up. 4 . This of course after tapping the worst week since march. We continue to see the selloff and idiosyncratic news. Softbank changing options Investment Strategy leading to selling picking up any friday session. Not to mention the tech stock reversed gains after china said it opposes a fourth sale of tiktok. We have the nasdaq composite really under pressure in the u. S. Session on friday, down. 6 . Take a look at what oil is doing because we are coming off of its back its worst back to back weeks since april. Nothing on oil prices, tomention concern about opecs production compliance. Wti at the moment at around 37 a barrel, gaining about. 5 . Lets get a quick check of our asia of how asia is setting up. Sophie we are nearing the halfway mark for september and t
108 points hire. So good news all around. Lets see if it can stay this way. Treasury yields, you can look at a 10year note at. 681 we have so much going on the fed kicking off a twoday meeting. The first since it put new framework into place isnt expected to change Interest Rates fed chair powell planning to answer questions about the outlook during tomorrows News Conference then we have the data coming in today where we get august import and export prices. The latest productions numbers and the earnings, we have fedex and adobe. A lot of other news, joe i can hear the bounce in your step i hear it in your voice. I think it might be the guests we have again today. I know you are excited for the hour we had great guests yesterday and great guests today we have bob from viea come cbs Jared Kushner coming up in the 7 00 hour. Kevin mccarthy then i realize we miss becky whenever shes out but you like to talk and i guess i do too so it is 50 50, instead of 33, 33, 33 you dont have to admit
Stimulus check. Also you ahead, marias interview with trey gowdy. Is john brennan doing damage control, against the backdrop of the 2020 election, now just 57 days away. Coming up, marias exclusive with Peter Navarro on President Trumps second term agenda and why he believes the president s tough on china policies could win him a second term. Well hear from gordon chang on the china challenge and why he is taking the pentagons new report on beijings military very seriously. All that and more as we look ahead on sunday morning futures. Charles first, the white house and congress temporarily averting a gunfight shu governmn friday, Vice President mike pence said he hopes that this will allow lawmakers to focus on the Coronavirus Relief package when they return to work next week. Joining me right now, republican conference chairman, senator john barosso. It didnt get a lot of fanfare. It was a big hurdle, just how much momentum can we expect out of that and this very elusive agreement. It