Afternoon or good evening, depending on wherever you are sitting right now and joining us for this session. May peace be upon you. It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the second event of the embassy of afghanistans listen and peace series. We are glad to be hosting this event on lebanons agreement and partnership with the Atlantic Council. A wonderful partner of the embassy in washington, i want to offer a very warm thank you to the Atlantic Council for their help in organizing this very important discussion. And all the great work that they are continuously doing. Furthermore, i would like to express my gratitude to doctor patricia, and doctor daniel. For taking this time to share their knowledge and insight with us today. , and busted or i think you not just for joining us today but for all of the great work you have done in afghanistan over the years. Its an honor to have you with us today, thank you for moderating and guiding us through this conversation. For those of you who
Are been institute, this runs an hour. After recordbreaking declines in Economic Activity in the Second Quarter 1 45,020 we are going to be 25 vote in the Second Quarter. For people who are still struggling to climb out of. What is written about the cake shaped recovery, workers at the low Income Distribution who dont have option to work from home and for whom federal help is already taken away. As we see with fewer workers buying lattes, any service that depends on a smile, what does that mean for revenue . One estimate suggests in high rent districts, employment is at 45 so we have my colleagues and i, for cities and looking at how it depends on revenue structure and exposure to covid19, federal and state policy response. If i could get the next slide please. There we go. The point is going into this there are a lot of things we knew about city economies and finances and it has been upended by covid19. A Success Story and many of those jobs are under threat. Cities that successfully
Debts are about 700,000. The Trump Administration dabs up its attack on chinese tech. Mike pompeo wants to cut ties well beyond just a campaign against tiktok. Alert on start with an the bloomberg. South korea announcing its surplus widening to 6. 88 billion. This is a recovery from the 2 billion level we saw in the previous month and recovery after logging a deficit in april. When it comes to the trade surplus, widening to 5. 867 billion. We have seen south korean exports slump, slowing in july. We are seeing an economic recovery in china and demand for semiconductors. Lets turn to Sophie Kamaruddin in hong kong for a check of the markets. What should we be watching out for in south korea today . Sophie we have more data coming out. Tourism revenue falling for a fifth consecutive month so the focus will be on the consumer sector. Of o have the likes reporting earnings. Consumer sentiment has rebounded for a third month in south korea and online spending will continue to be key as the
Reopening on hold. The bank of japan is expected to leave policy unchanged later while reassessing measures already taken to help the virus hit economy. Look at how take a markets are doing on boj decision day. We had that ricocheting session in the u. S. Overnight. If you needed further conviction as to the hand the fed intentionally has when it comes to showing up market demand, you have the announcement from the fed really causing that gain back into positive territory after we had declines of more than 2 in that trading session for the s p. Futures are looking positive. About. 25 in the green. We are looking at chicago nikkei futures trading higher by about. 3 . We are expecting just more operational steps from the bank of japan in terms of providing support to Small Businesses to be able to ride out the pandemic slowdown. In sydney, we are looking at a pop at the open. 2. 5 higher when it comes to futures, with indicated upside of two point 5 when the cash trading session begins,
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