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
Reportedly uncovering Quality Control concerns at eli lilly plant set to manufacture its covid antibody treatment and apple debuts the new 5g phone line speedier devices, also coming with an even heftier price tag carl, back over to you. All right jim, on the banks this morning, conversation once again about loss provisions. Also about bond trading at goldman. I dont think it is just bond trading. I think goldman did a remarkable job taking some share, which i say remarkable because imagine youre at home, zooming and taking sharefrom others. I do believe that goldmans back to its old ways which is that it is a dry cleaner it doesnt have any risk remember, dry cleaner, what do we do with the dry cleaner give them our clothes and pick them up and they make money. That has been the goldman way until a couple of years where i think it got wayward where it became much more about, hey, lets invest in this, invest in that, no, to me, what theyre investing in, that i really like, theyre invest
Buyer beware, ipos that have doubled do not have a great track record after the debut. Plus the president and tiktok, he says hes not prepared to sign off on anything for an oracle tiktok deal. And wall street poised for a sharply lower open following the feds pledge to keep Interest Rates low for years and Technology Stocks do lead the declines speaking of which, jim, sounds like your conversation with joe a moment ago kind of rings with what Credit Suisse says today about tech valuations overall, that is that there is some excess and theyre lightning their weight at least on software. I count 30 companies that are selling at 30 times sales and then theres a number, even more, maybe another ten that are selling above that, 50 times sales for zoom along comes snowflake at 100 times sales. You just have to put the stop sign up because what it says is theres going to be so much supply that is coming. Look, if you own a company youve been waiting for it to come public you just got the gre
In southwestern louisiana, about 30 miles east as a cat 4 a storm surge forecasters say could be 20 feet deep. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning. The rain is steadily coming down here as hurricane laura moves up the coastline or state line from lake charles up to shreveport where i am the rain is coming down steadily for the past several hours this storm has been downgraded to a category 3. Many concerns remain around heavy rain that could lead to flooding and the possibility of high winds that could impact trees and cause trees to fall and lead to downed power lines and outages much like we are seeing in the southern part of the state. Shreveport is one of the places folks were evacuated to from lake charles we are here along the riverside where folks are staying in hotels to get away from the storm but the businesses here are closed casinos here are closed. The cities in the area, the surrounding area, School Districts all closed for the day as they wait out to see what exac
Above 39, jim. But this morning, well watch maybe a tale of two cities if new york can do this as they reopen offices and hair salons i think new york is taking a big risk because new york has beening ino ing inumber one when you have the least covid, i guess maybe you can say its time to open but also to be the least covid for a little bit i know you need to do it because too many businesses that are going to go under. Just be too long and the cash flow is too low. I worry about a bit of a spike because it is great to be a state that you feel safe in and, yes, i want my, i dont have to worry about my hair being cut but yes i want these businesses open and get cash flow its been just a delight to having lost vigilance but little less nervous on fathers day pretty good. Interesting kudlow saying a moment ago he does notanticipate another nationwide lockdown but one thing that friday did demonstrate that apple and cruise lines will curtail their own operations if they sense any need for