A long awaited exchange a massive operation over a 1000 Prisoners Released on both sides of yemens conflict. From europe to the u. S. The coronavirus pandemic has forced to keep player to leave the summits in brussels than has jolted the democratic president ial campaign less than 3 weeks before elections the president of the European Commission sort of on the line abruptly left brags that trade talks after she came in contact with someone infected with covert 19. U. S. Democratic Vice President ial candidate camel house are suspended all in person events after 2 of her Campaign Members tested positive harris was scheduled to travel to the battleground state of North Carolina on thursday both her wrists and biden have tested negative or speak to our White House Correspondent kimberly health in just a moment of 1st lets go over to Natasha Barlow she joins us live from paris so how did the departure of a sort of on the last impact the summit. Sony an unexpected event the e. U. Commission
A lasting peace. And the speaker of the Cypriot Parliament quits after being implicated in the cash for passport scam exposed by al jazeera. The World Health Organization has warned that the death toll in the 2nd wave of the corona virus pandemic could be 5 times the level of the 1st outbreak back in the spring unless urgent action is taken now across europe coronavirus cases are rising dramatically and governments are tightening restrictions to stop the spread from saturday more than half of englands 56000000 population will be subjected to high or very high restrictions impacting their movement and who they can meet the german hospital for the ration says the number of people in hospital with cope at 19 has doubled in the past week with intense. Care patients expected to pass 2000 by next months Record Numbers of infections have been recorded in germany the netherlands italy poland the Czech Republic slovakia croatia and portugal or a state of calamity came into effect on thursday me
Detainees sworn in the hope it could facilitate a lasting peace. Thousands the fire protests began in thailand demanding the Prime Ministers resignation and reforms to the monarchy. Plus the speaker of the Cypriot Parliament quits after being implicated in a cash for passport scam exposed by al jazeera. The World Health Organization has warned the death toll in the 2nd wave of the corona virus pandemic could be 5 times the level of the 1st outbreak in the spring unless urgent action is taken across europe coronavirus cases are rising dramatically and governments are tightening restrictions to stop the spread from saturday more than half of englands 56. 1000000 population will be subjected to high or very high restrictions impacting their movement and who they can meet the German Hospital Federation says the number of people in hospital with covert 19 has doubled in the past week with intensive care patients expected the past 2000 by next months Record Numbers of infections have been re
Patriotic. Vaccine is on to find a amid warnings of a greater resurgence to come. Haidi pretty mixed midweek outlook when it comes to trading here in asia and for the first time in a while, we have seen equity markets kind of take a step back in terms of not headlines. A great deal of activities and commodities. Lets take a check of futures. Contracts trading higher after we saw a lack of conviction in u. S. Markets as we get concerns that perhaps this fourth round of fiscal stimulus will not be forthcoming. We are hearing the republicans are in the midst of crafting their own proposal to take to the democrats and we also heard from President Trump as he resumed his virus presser, encouraging americans to wear patrioticart of a duty. Over in japan, we are seeing outside of point 3 when it comes to trading for nikkei futures in chicago. More earnings on tap along with japanese pmi readings as well. Take a look at gold and soldiers. Pretty much flat at the moment, jumping close to a nine
We are looking at currencies, strength coming through for the yuan. Dollar weakness is a big factor. Of the planthe back signed off or agreed to on 0. 1 . Us, the euro is up weaknessollar again, down 0. 2 . Hade is still value to be when it comes to chinas bonds, 2. 96 is the yield the. Is the yield. Gold is closing in on 1900 an its spot price. Future is pointing to 1900 in the near future. Il down 0. 7 demandweakness is a factor. Rishaad lets get some sense in all of this. Joining us is frank benzimra, head of asia equity strategy, societe generale. Thank you for joining us. How was your strategy evolving . The last couple of months europe become bullish on , and here politics is playing an Important Role in closing the gap in terms of undervaluation. In asia we have been reinforcing the view on hong kong liquidity. Our remaining strategy is on china. Is that all down to this Recovery Fund and what that presents in terms of a more united cents in europe and the eu itself . A relation