Today, we have an additional 28 deaths. That brings our total to 1568 total deaths statewide. This is really the grimmest part of these updates for everyone on the state of new mexico team. And i know for all new mexicans, i gave personal condolences to some families who shared their information with me this morning in this incredibly painful, of course, these are unnecessary deaths. And we all must do better. I do want to alert folks that in the details of the emails we sent out about the new mexicans we lose to covid, we lost two individuals in their 30s with no underlying conditions. And i dont report this, and we dont put it in our daily updates that go out via email or on our websites and in the media, to provide any more gruesome details about this deadly virus. But to remind everyone, again, it does not care how old you are. What politicale party you are. It does not care what gender you are. This virus can be deadly for anyone. And while we know that it is particularly precario
Not a surprise if you look to see whats happening with the shutdown of the economy, the forced shutdown because of coronavirus. Taking a look at the tenyear this morning, it looks like that is yielding about 0. 735 at least on the last time i looked at the boards it was. And then wti is the other big story today. Joe also mentioned opec plus deal it was an historic one opec and other nations agreeing to cut Global Oil Production by onetenth. Well talk about this in a few minutes. Wti is up by 1. 5 to 23. 11 a barrel. We have a huge lineup of squawk newsmakers including Mohamed El Erian, Richard Preston and dr. Scott gottlieb starting in a few minutes. Andrew thanks, becky hope everybody had a great weekend. Lets bring everybody an update on the pandemic. Of course, the number of confirmed cases in the United States now more than 557,000 and the death toll is more than 22,000 there are 190,000 cases in new york state with more than 9300 deaths that means new york alone has reported more
Week price premier will lead negotiations for china is telling dignitaries his offer to the u. S. Will not include commitments on reforming chinas industrial policy. These are some of the big demands the Trump Administration has been making in the trade talks. Update now on the crisis in hong kong. The city is struggling to recover after a night of violent clashes. Protesters defied government threats with Wearing Masks and were met with tear gas they were threatened with a year in prison for hiding their faces. Police arrested dozens of protesters and bussed them away under new emergency laws chinas military threatened to arrest protesters who aimed laser lights more protests planned for tonight. Some grocery stores, other businesses have reopened after closing early yesterday. The metro is only partially functioni ining hooch of serious and in the just dont tweet about anything anymore section of our news today, also making news the general manager of the Houston Rockets of the nba h
The dow has been up seven sessions in a row. S p is up six out of the last seven sessions you are talking the highest closes since late july overnight in asia, the sang high deposit was closed for a public holiday. The hang seng up almost 1 in europe, it looks like now most of those markets are in the green, one exception is the ftse down by about. 1 . If you check out treasury yields in the united states, another big story is what happens to the yields some of that movement started after treasury secretary told us that Treasury Department is looking seriously at the idea of a 50year bond for some time next year. Right now, the 30 year is yielding 2. 28 i saw him later in washington and he started talking about 100year bond for the next consideration. Did you prepare for seeing him by watching the interview we conducted . I did thats why i decided to take the 50 and up theante and ask him about 100. To beat the record, he would have to serve 13 years see, i knew it were you talking abo
The nation im john dickerson. It was a busy week for President Trump it started with a confrontational speech at the United Nations tuesday where he threatened to totally destroy north korea if the u. S. Were forced to defend itself or its allies. Rocket man is on a Suicide Mission for himself. And for his regime. Dickerson condemned once again the Iranian Nuclear deal agreed to. We cannot let a murderous regime continue these destabilizing activities while building dangerous missiles. Dickerson followed up on that tough talk on north korea by imposing sanctions on Foreign Countries that trade with north korea. In an effort to further isolate the regime and force them to the negotiating table. Friday, jongun made a rare move of responding directly to the president. Trump has denied existence of and insulted me and my country in front of the eyes of the world. I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged dotard with fire. The president characteristically responded by twitter.