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Changing condition. Futures point higher in sydney and tokyo. The yen holding back. Almost everybody is softbank thinks the group taking a Group Private is a bad idea. We will look about the chances of such moves actually happening. Lets take a look at how we are kicking off trading in sydney. It is a public holiday. But we do still have the cash 4 in thep about 0. First two minutes. This comes on a busy week for australian traders. The budget where we are expecting to see assumptions made about a vaccine becoming available and we are also getting a report that is trillion is set to further lift that that australia is such a for the lift that debt ceiling with 4 billion u. S. Dollars with the debt ceiling being lifted higher to 1. 1 trillion. Looking at the aussie dollar ahead of the all be a. We are expecting no change. Markets are significantly pricing and now another rate cut. Before the end of the year. Dollar trading at 71. 67. In new zealand, two weeks out from the election. Kiwi
Thats right vicki and grant reducing the Positivity Rate in these hardhit communities is very important because this will be a key factor in any further reopening of the economy, heres more. Like this one posted that story and king roads in east, san jose remind residents that their community has been disproportionately impacted by the coronavirus after reaching a high of roughly 60 the percentage of coronavirus cases here and in gilroy is now at 57. 1 that continues to trend downward. The failure to meet with the state says are Health Equity benchmarks could be a problem for the county as it works toward further reopenings has led the aisle. Betty is always a problem when you know the impacted segments and members your community. Or are not are not making the same progress as the rest of our commute were not going to thrive and let everybody drives a multicultural populist language barriers in early lack of testing and contact tracing. Contributed to the higher numbers, a door to door
Being treated with remdesevir as well as an experimental antibody cocktail. He is expected to stay in the hospital for at least a few more days for very latest on the president s condition reaction from washington were joined by our dc Bureau Reporter Trevor Shirley. He is live from the Nations Capital this morning, good morning trevor. And good morning, thanks for having me in terms of the president s condition were going to find out more about it in about an hour from now. The white house just a few minutes ago announced that the president s doctor is going to be giving an update on the president s condition. At Walter Reed Medical Center thats expected to happen around 11 oclock eastern time within the hour we should hopefully be getting more details on exactly how the president s doing at this point we know hes been given to different. Therapeutic treatments. So this doctor may be able to give us some update on whether or not those are having any effect in the meantime theres some
Well. We are watching what is going on with individual indices. Hong kong coming back and a big way after that long holiday. Hang seng up more than 300 points. The nikkei 225 up more than 1. 3 . At this point, seeing positive signs of drug and his recovery, although there has been mixed messages about what treatment he is getting, the timeline of his diagnosis as well. We are looking at risk aversion trade that we saw on friday,. Hich were gaining not doing a whole lot here this morning. Moving on 70 basis points. Seeing the reversal from friday, ozzie gaining and the yen, which additionally i despite, it it kit. 1900 after that 4 brent crude just below 40 a barrel. Watching fx, watching the dollar, pretty steady this morning as well. The pound seems to be holding onto the gains as well, brexit set for a showdown at the eu summit. Aussie and your revenue be holding on the firstlets get world headlines. Republican leader Mitch Mcconnell says the fasttrack schedule of the Supreme Court t