Hello and welcome to nhk newsline. Im Yoshi Ogasawara in tokyo. We start this hour in new york where the United Nations is canceling all inperson General Assembly Committee Meetings scheduled for tuesday. It comes after five people of a mission of a member state tested positive for the coronavirus. Its not immediately clear which member state is involved but the u. N. Said it is conducting contact tracing. The cancelations likely mean the Committee Vote on a japansponsored resolution to abolish Nuclear Weapons will be postponed. Most u. N. Staff that operate out of the new york headquarters have been working remotely since march. But more people have been returning to the office since july. Meanwhile, a top official at the World Health Organization is expressing concern about the latest surge of infections sweeping across europe. We are seeing very, very high positivity rates and an increasing lack of capacity to do any effective form of contact tracing. The two countries with the high
In indonesia, the number of daily new cases has recently exceeded 3,5,500. Authorities in the capital of jakarta have tightened restrictions that had bebeen ead since june. They require companies to raise the number of teleworking employees to three quarters for most industries. Gatherings of five or more people are also banned. In israel where new daily infections have surpassed 5,000 and nationwide lockdown will be imposed again beginning friday afternoon. In brazils largest city of sao paulo, 18 of children have brn been infected with the virus. Local authorities had been planning to reopen Public Schools next month for the First Time Since mid may, now that has been pushed back to november or later. A former member of the White House Coronavirus task force has acaccused u. S. President drum o placing priority on his reelection rather than containing the outbreak. Olivia troy was an adviser to mike pence untilil this summer. She made the accusation on thursday. Towards the middle of
Can he avoid the curse of rolling door leaders . And the s. E. C. Is examining electric truck maker nikola over a short sellers allegations of fraud. Our u. S. Futures are coming online. Flat at the moment after u. S. Stocks rose in the regular session. Stocks rebounded from blast last weeks selloff with the likes of high dimension, oracle, tiktok. Now, the dow ended at the highest level in more than a week. The s p 500 had every sector in green and was led by real estate and tech. Take a look at what oil is doing at the moment because its gaining ground and its above the 37 a barrel level. This after feeling the pressure in the new york session. Opec downgrading its outlook for the Global Oil Market and cut its Global Oil Demand forecast for each quarter to the end of 2021. This ahead of that meeting of ministers that will be held virtually to assess the curbs theyve implemented. We go to hong kong with more. This tuesday asian features are mixed. Trade numbers from india as well as i
Added to studying the feasibility of a megamerger. Of helping understate a pay packet of carlos ghosn. We had a wave of dealmaking creating positive sentiment. We had a rebound from last week, one of the worst weeks for u. S. Stocks since march. Tech stocks taking a breather from the selloff. Asset futures trading modestly. Watchl continue to trading when it comes to japan. Potential takeover for Prime Minister the middle of next week, futures are looking flat after the yen starts to gain in the monday session. We will watch for details about the cabinet and what it means for policy continuity playing in two sentiment for the japanese markets. Dollaryen holding steady. Modest dollar weakness overnight. That is set to continue. At 37. 40. Trading opec joining a chorus of voices suggesting the era of oil demand is deteriorating. Demand forecast for each quarter as we continue to see shortselling in the oil market. To a series ofrn deals we have seen. Oracle is bidding for tiktok u. S. Op
The p. M. I. Well dive deep into this in a bit. Look at the boards. The dollar still holds on to the retreat. That is helping some asian currencies out there. Ere holding on 706. We were near the 100day moving average. Were siegristance now that the dollar seems to be hovering around the twoweek lows despite the fact but were seeing the dollaryen pretty much at 168 but seeing at least six days of gains so far for the japanese currency. Watching oil price. We see it climbs once again. You are seeing w. T. I. Futures. 4 higher for brent crude. Gold snapped out of four dives declines. It is largely unchanged. Hovering around 62 basis points now. We have the First Official gauge for chinas economy in april. Weakened again. Investors are waiting to see what steps the pboc may take to bolster the economy. Our guest from citigroup joins us this morning. What is your assessment of the p. M. I. Data that we got. Nonmanufacturing. Manufacturing below the forecast. Still in expansion territory. A