Woodward in march this was terribly deadly and contagious at the same time he was saying to the rest of us do not worry so much. Jeanne this is not the conversation the president wants to be having. Any top of the pandemic does not work for him politically. This is not what the campaign wants to be talking about. More importantly, we have a president on the record admitting he knows how devastating and deadly this is, and many months later you have 190,000 americans dead, many of whom have been sick and ill as a result of this, and you had the president , months after he told bob woodward how bad this was inviting people to places like tulsa and saying you do not have to worry about safety protocol, you do not have to worry about masking, you do not have to worry about social distancing. This is being drummed up by people who want to get me. When he is on the record with bob woodward he is saying the opposite. The president and his team have to explain why he is saying one thing privat
Data likely to report a substantial fall in Second Quarter of gdp. It will confirm a first technical recession in 29 years. Raced shinzo abe after he set his plans. The backing of the ruling party. Voters have another view. Haidi we are just getting south korea Inflation Numbers crossing the bloomberg. Slightly more inflationary when it comes to consumer prices. When it comes. 7 to the year on your number for soft arena. Southxpectations korea. Beating expectations. 3 . The month on month number of. 7 . Betterthanexpected expectations. Cpi caore number year on year coming at. 8 . Continuing to edge up. Still shy of 1 that we are looking for. We are starting to see a recovery when it comes to domestic demand. The influence of supportive base effects. Hoping to lift the inflation somewhat. We have the renewed resurgence in virus cases in the letter half of the month, likely to be accounting for the fall. Energy costs still low compared to the previous year. They are picking up. That woul
Estimate. The pboc governor says china will implement the phase one deal with the u. S. He said that in an interview with tsinghua. Chinext is down, extending a decline after bearish reversal. China internet stocks were up friday following the ban on tiktok. Some say forget the tencent risk, asian stocks are silly by. Alibaba still a buy. S p. R tech giants on the we have futures in the u. S. 3343. Ng to a flat open, the s p 1 away from its alltime high. This on the outcome of the u. S. Stimulus talks. Also the u. S. China phase one review. We are taking a look at live pictures out of taiwan where alex azar is going to meet the taiwanese president. He is also meeting with taiwans health minister. This is a historic visit. He is the highest ranking u. S. Official to visit in decades, threatening to further stoke tensions between the u. S. And china. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson last week said beijing was opposed to the visit, calling taiwan the most important and sensitive issu
Upper 106 level before u. S. Retail sales and trade talks are planned for the weekend. We are seeing dollar weakness in recent days. Gold futures at 1946. It is above 1900, a wild ride for the metal after surging 30 this year. We saw the plunge below 1900 tuesday. Gold is still an of the bestperforming commodities of 2020. 66. 22. 10 year yield at lets flip the page and look at where we are in terms of the chinese shares ahead of a slew of data for july on friday, including Industrial Production and retail sales. The csi 300 is in negative territory, down. 4 . The yuan is at 6. 93. The hang seng is getting some gains. Center, infront and negative territory right now even as it the highest estimate. Tencent also played down the Trump Administration as we check been. Ban wechat the kospi is up on a 52week high. Look at southeast asia, this is asias worst performer this year, correctly up. 5 . It may rise to between 6500 to 7000 this year, driven by pretty much the government stimulus pac
Twist. Walmart teaming up with microsoft in a bid for the popular social media app both stocks rallying to new alltime highs on this news. Julia boorstin has the details. The news keeps coming on this one. Reuters just reporting tiktok engineers were told to make contingency plans should it need to shut down u. S. Operations they are preparing for various scenarios including a forced shutdown telling us they are simultaneously developing plans to make sure u. S. Employees continue to get paid on the heels of any outcome. Walmart is teaming up with microsoft to buy tiktok. Walmart telling us, quote, we believe a potential relationship with tiktok u. S. In partnership with microsoft could add this key functionality and provide walmart with an important way for us to reach and serve omni channel customers as well as grow our Third Party Marketplace and advertising businesses dan ives tells us, quote, we believe microsoft buying ticktoticktok would be like Christmas Morning coming early fo