A food crisis will get worse in zimbabwe as it extends a nationwide lockdown. Yemen is reeling from yet another setback to ambitions for peace and stability separatists have declared self rule in the south of the country its crushed hopes of resurrecting a power sharing deal signed in november the internationally recognized government has condemned as catastrophic and dangerous the move all this as a saudi u. A. E. Coalition battles with the rebels in a separate conflict obrien has more. Separatist reinforcements a ride in aden hours after their political leaders the Southern Transitional council announced its in control of the city and a major port. Lincoln that is we are now in front of the Yemeni Central Bank in aden. After it was taken back by the sovereign forces that by the sovereign Transitional Council like the other vital infrastructure in the city we hope this will be a real breakthrough that will be repeated in all the other liberated south and we. The council defying the in
Brent also lowered to about 2. 3 . With treasuries. Havens like the dollar, the yen. We saw where the nerves are with dollar renminbi. Seeing the hikes inching closer for dollaritory china right now. 6. 4 ,ing a contraction of so we could be seeing a deeper contraction. Financialrom the secretary paul chan saying we could be facing the worst contraction on record. The rupiah seeing some strength here. The carry trade has been coming back. 14,000, 935 around 14,935. The trump ministration is stepping up its attack on china, saying that there is enormous evidence that the coronaVirus Outbreak emerged from a lab in wuhan and china covered it up. Secretary of state mike pao stopped short mike pompeo stopped short of saying the virus was manmade. While the Intelligence Committee continues to do its work, they should continue to verify so that we are certain. I can tell you that there is a significant amount of evidence that this came from that laboratory in wuhan. Business confidence in the
Deb. I want to talk very briefly about two or three things. First, the issue of testing and how that has changed the complexion of the approach we are going to be able to take. Testing was an issue, many questions of testing in this room for number of times. Now that we literally have hundreds and hundreds of thousands of testing out there, there are a few things we could do with that. One of the things is when we make policy of what we are going to be doing with the rest of the country, particularly those areas that are not hotspots, we need to know what the infection is there. We need to put a light on those dark spots that we dont know. We have to act policy wise on data. We are going to be getting more data, a lot more data. The other thing is the areas of the country that are not hotspots, that are not going through the terrible ordeal that new york and california and Washington State are going through, they still have a window of significant degree of being able to contain. In ot
Romain, stocks rising and volatility dropping, so why now . Romaine the good thing, if you are looking for a Silver Lining here is we did not have huge price swings. We had up and down days with swings of 4 or more, something that has never happened since the great depression, so a day like today where we only lived half of a percentage point is considered to be a relief for investors. We saw volatility measures like the vix and volatility measures on other risk assets come down a little bit. They are still elevated on a historical basis, but by not having these swings it gives investors a chance to parse what the value of things really are, entryybe try to find an point. We saw sustained buying in the names that we used to see in the oldgrowth days. Some encouraging signs. Not a monster day. Not close to erasing the losses we have had, but a little bit encouraging today. Emily in the meantime, we are getting breaking news out of the fed, the fed saying they have seen an increase at th
Does he justify chinas catalogue of human rights abuses and the continuing pressure on hong kong. Thank you for having me china has always insisted that it will do anything to avoid chaos it shot a large number of its own people in beijing 30 years ago to do that but its failed comprehensively to address the protests in hong kong why maintaining stability has always been a pillar for chinas Development Since the late in that. Seventys but its failed to do it in the hall closet different ever since 1987 told this part of china that china has practiced a one country 2 systems so in all. The primary responsibility of maintaining law and order is resting on the shoulders of the whole caught he said our government and the chief executive carried government thats approved by beijing absolutely hong kong is part of china and one of the one percent is doing beijings business not doing it not doing it very well is it its failed its failed to keep the hated extradition mordant it was forced to w