Tthe nationwide total now excees 42,000, more than 1,000 people have died. Health Ministry Officials say more than 4,000 people were being treated for the virus at hospitals as of last wednesday. The figure was just under 700 on july 1st. Since then patients in tokyo have quadrupled, but in terms of increase, other pleeskts have feared mmuch worse. Patients in oh sasaka jumped 20fold. The Health Minister says jjapan currently has enough hospital beds to cope, but he also says the situation needs to be closely monitored with some hospitals increasingly under strain. Some local governments are asking residents and businesses to do their part to curb the spread of the virus. In tokyo the governor is requesting barsrs and restauran to close by 10 00 p. M. As our next story shows, its pushing many establishments to the brink. Reporter its been an anxious few months when sales plunged after the government declared a state of emergency. As rrestrictions gradually ease, business was finally st
Yours biggest bank. Europes biggest bank. Europes biggest bank, hsbc, has reported a big jump in profits for last year. But its mainly because its been able to shake off the huge costs the company has faced in restructuring after a string of problems. It means there will be a strong base to build on when the new chief executive, john flint, takes the reigns from stuart guillver on wednesday. The numbers show that hsbc made a pre tax profit of 17. 2 billion for the calendar year of 2017. Thats up a massive 1a1 on the 7. 1 billion in made the year before. However, its still below expectations. The bank says adjusted pre tax profit of 21 billion gives a better idea of how the business is performing. It excludes one off items and Foreign Exchange losses and was up 11 on a year ago. The banks desire to focus more on asia, including expanding in china, is paying off too with 75 of profits now coming from the region. But despite these good numbers, the bank continues to have problems with the
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Well, Inflation Numbers out of china and a half hour good theyre looking at factory gain numbers good numbers. They were negative for so long until september, when they turned positive. Looking at 5. 6 growth when it comes to prices from leaving the factory gate. Consumer prices. 7721, it is the China National bureau of statistics, updated with the latest read at consumer inflation. We are looking at what is happening with that. We have 1. 5 increase expected on the cpi, that is the consensus. What were witnessing is negativity when it comes to food. Were notesenting just by the National Bureau of statistics, thats the turquoise line, but the food tracker on the white line. 1. 5 level of deflation when it comes to food prices. Have a higher click. Clip, nearly 3 plus inflation. Getting taiwan, malaysia and nepal not singapore, they have a national holiday. As take a look at what is going on. Investors in singapore probably happy it is a holiday because when you take a look at the Asset
Manus welcome to countdown. Anna warm welcome, 6 00 here in london. Now a good morning. Things are a little bit colder in the asian markets, the Asian Session this morning. Fairly flat, oil on the bounce. Helping some of the oilrelated companies in asia. Also waiting on the fed minutes, the markets suggesting what Christine Lagarde had to say yesterday. A long list of risks to the Global Growth story. Manus over the next three months, how much of the risk is priced in . The brexit, the u. S. President , greece back on the board. Aboutine lagarde warning the lack of additional stimulus from the fiscal side. While he have done this morning is try to pull this together really in this chart. The relationship between banks and the market, wti in the market. It is there. We talk about the all country world index. Just a little bit of a relief in oil, and you just see a little bit of stasis, as i would say, in terms of an uptick in the equity markets. But it is all about oil. Let us have a lo