Dangerous conditions in egypts business. So the number of people around the world who have contracted coronaviruses exceeded 40000000 a quarter of those are still active cases iran has reported its highest ever daily death toll at least 337 people that have died of cave in 1000 over the past 24 hours and that brings the total number of fatalities up to more than 30000 and more than 10000000 cases have been reported across latin America Brazil argentina and colombia are among the top 10 worst hit countries in the world and other nations across europe including poland and italy are imposing more restrictions to tackle the new wave of infections and wales is going into a nationwide lockdown for 2 weeks that starts on friday its one of the worst hit areas in the u. K. Over on then jenna hall says the well slow down did come they surprise whales of course already under restrictions much of the country and on friday to the rather unprecedented step of banning people from travelling to wales
Langevin and others. Recognizeey i myself. The warnings we had and decisions made about the most recent worldwide Intelligence Committee in january of 2019, and i quote, the United States and the world will remain vulnerable to the next pandemic where large scale outbreak of contagious disease that could lead to massive rates of death and disability, severely affect the world economy, strain international resources, and increase calls from the United States for support. We must ask ourselves what are the warnings are going unheeded, and what can we do right now to protect the American People from other threats . Before the unthinkable happens in the future, how can we exercise strategic and precisive foresight to the best of our ability today to ensure are a nation prepared for tomorrow . That same worldwide threat assessment Cyber Attacks is a top global threat with china, russia, iran, and north korea, raging a silent war capable of shutting down with such Information Systems and cri
Questions, i think, heading into this new month is can big tech stage a big rebound because september was fairly dismal. Apple was down more than 10 alphabet down 10 microsoft down almost 7. Amazon down almost 9 facebook down 10 y do you see all those pull backs represent consolidation. That up trend remains thoroughly undisturbed. I really dont think profit taking and consolidation the month of september end up being meaningful i could be wrong thats the way i would think about it 42 of stocks in the s p five hundred are above their 50 day more than half of the market is not. The consumer stock, Consumer Discretionary looks incredible equal weight retail looks great. Anything that has to do with the consumer looks pretty darn good. The big trends are all in place. Target, new highs. Walmart looks like it wants to break out again. This morning i heard 11 of americans are now already paying for walmart plus they rolled this thing two weeks ago. They have 11 of the country as m paying me
High everybody i am david and neck schist, columnist for the washington post. Welcome to the National Book festival in this difficult time of the pandemic, one thing we can do i know you are loving it as i am is to read good books. I wrote a book that was published this summer which was about a cia officer who is struggling with one of the central problems of our times which is knowing what is true and what isnt. And it is my great pleasure to have with me today to people who wrote two of those very best books of this summer, about issues related to our new technologically sophisticated world and the dangers. First i want to introduce bart gelman, my colleague at the washington post, wrote an extraordinary memoir that led to the revelation about nsa, technology and surveillance. And the subtitle of barts book says the american surveillance state. I also into introduce another outstanding author, thomas ridden who teaches at john hopkins. Whose book active measures is a history of what
Quote the United States and the world will remain vulnerable to the next pandemic or largescale outbreak of contagiousd disease. That could lead to a massive disability. Th and severely affects the worlds economy a. Strain international resources, and weak call in the United States support. We must ask ourselves, what are the warnings that are going unheeded . What can we do right now to protect the American People from other threats . Before the unthinkable happens in the future, how can we exercise strategic and persuasive foresight to the best of our ability today to ensure we are a nation prepared for tomorrow . That same worldwide threat assessment against Cyber Attacks with china, russia, iran, north korea, raging a silent work capable of shutting down such Information Systems and jeopardizing critical sectors in america. The report states, and i quote , our adversaries and strategic competitors increasingly use the cyber capabilities, including Cyber Espionage, to attack and see