Global infections grew beyond the 60 million mark wednesday, as countries try to protect their Health Systems and citizens. 1. 4 Million People have died. The largest outbreak is still in the United States, which has logged more than 12 million cases and more than 260,000 deaths. India and brazil also have infection counts well above 5 million and a troubling number of deaths. Europe has been struggling under high caseloads for months, with many countries deploying antivirus measures, including lookdowns. But numbers show a downward trend. The president of france told his country tuesday the second wave is beyond its crest and hell now ease a national lockdown. If conditions continue to improve, macron said more measures can be lifted. Translator all around the country during this period, meaning starting from december the 15th, a curfew from 9 00 p. M. To 7 00 a. M. Will be in place. We can go around freely on the nights of december 24 to share these moments with our families. The Bri
Bloomberg surveillance. This is what the markets are focusing on. There is quite a lot of m a news. That is giving a lift to the market. What im looking at is a couple of technology stocks. Couple of other things such as crude oil edging higher, so does gold. Global shares off a back to back decline. To bloomberg first word news in london. Optimism over a coronavirus vaccine. Pfizeref executive of says its likely it will by the end of the year. They say theyre dependent on Regulatory Approval but says the firm has a good chance of knowing the efficacy by the end of october. Secretaryief cabinet won the race to replace shinzo abe. National in the group will use this majority to install him as Prime Minister in a vote on wednesday. The uks justice secretary has warned he may quit over the government plans on brexit. He says it hasnt reached that stage just yet. The controversial rule has this week. Boris johnson is facing a growing rebellion to override part of the divorce agreement alre
Opecs cuts may be draining the glut. The bank of japan prepares for unscheduled talks as the coronavirus keeps extra pressure on the economy. Help for Small Business tops the agenda. Downside are seeing a start to trading on this final friday session of the week. Overwhelmingly, the concern over these escalating tensions between washington and beijing, and now also, beijings expected move to impose the National Security law on hong kong and we are watching, in particular, the start of mainland trading as well as hong kong trading and trading in the hong kong dollar but in the meantime, we are seeing a downside view when it comes to nikkei futures as well as kospi. Sydney futures looking to extend losses of. 4 in the previous session although we could expect to see some modest gains when it comes to the Energy Sector given the gains and that story when it comes to the continued rally in oil prices. We are also watching trading in new zealand. We had retail Sales Numbers out in the last
Neighbors suffered south korea. So people here are angry that theyre all supporting this boycott Japan Campaign they want to boycott anything japanese dont go to japan they say dont fly on a Japanese Airline dont buy a japanese car which they see as a way of hitting back at japan pizza sounds as if the potential for rob could be pretty far reaching. Thats right i mean you mentioned already the possibility that south korea and japan who are 2 very important allies and very important allies of the United States in this part of the world that they dont cooperate in the sharing of intelligence which was set up particularly to counter the threat from north korea which obviously is going through this phase of heightened missile testing at the moment so thats one. Impact board concern probably to south korea and also to japan to a lot of companies there is the economic fallout. There has been a retaliation from south korea with the South Koreans now removing japan from its list of preferred n
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