The u. S. Enters a new week with the highest number of coronavirus doubts in the world. Administration is still trying to ease lockdown restrictions by may. The Top White House virus eight says infection levels are stabilizing. Some of the u. S. Could be open in the next month. The imf and world bank held meetings this week using digital remote software. The global lenders will facing new reality of mounting unemployment. Thecials have already said Global Economy is suffering its worst recession since the 1930s. India is set to extend its current 21 date lockdown to the end of the months to allow more time to evaluate the spread of the infection. The Prime Minister said the government has adequate supplies of medicine and protective gear for frontline workers, adding that the next four weeks will be critical. The virus is ad social emergency. In hong kongals are facing a pay cut. Announced new stimulus. The additional spending accounts for double the projected government budget. The ph
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Fire truck, sparking an inquiry. Betty quite a surprise here, aurth quarter gdp showing contraction here of 0. 2 quarter on quarter. 1 10stimate was a gain of of 1 , a slight down in the prior year. Expectations were that this was not going to be a great number, but contraction is a surprise here. It is the first fourthquarter contraction for the First Time Since 2008, also year on year, just up 3 . Gain somate was a 3. 4 not good news here for south korea. Yvonne it was a banner year when it comes to exports, i guess you could blame to the strengthening of the one that there is also a nationalhow they holiday in october. The bank of korea upgraded this growth to 3 , so there is still a lot of good with exports still blooming those slowly, and private consumption has improved a bit as well. And how were looking at the currency taking a look at how dare faring so far. Flat, the nikkei and changed. We expect a pullback from the nikkei, it was a pretty ugly day yesterday for equities. It
Justice department. Eating straight to the market close, we do not have an open in many parts of the region because it is the Lunar New Year holiday. Having a look at what is going on in commodities and more. Mentioned, we have the markets like china, hong kong, and others closed due to the Lunar New Year holiday. Commentseing trumps weighing on investor anxiety and you are seeing consumer and material stocks during the most on the regional benchmark. Japanese automakers toyota and honda among the largest lacquers and in the backdrop we do have gold holding two days of gains and positive in oil after the overnight movements. Electronics, autos and machinery makers looking at the yen gained some ground. Its forecasted dropping as much as 18 . The biggest decline on the intake nikkei and the topix. It dropped its operating profit outlook two 70 . A negative here and it is likely to persist if there is not a drastic change in reggie according to analysts. Direction, we have sydney moto ch
Health care policy and ended with an argument about president obamas legacy. All of that for you, coming up. Good friday morning. President s day is monday and valentines day and no street sweeping day because its abraham lincolns birthday. Early valentines day for everybody. For everybody it is cold. A new year. Lincoln, washington way . Ill be oh, yeah. Elle be here. Apple tv and hang out. [laughter] that sounds safe. Enough for me. Yeah, all right lets show you what we have for the startoff temperatures this morning. Cold, didnt go down this hour thankfully but will the next. Anyhow 16 central park. 15 in nuke. And also keep in mind look at the winds theyre not particularly strong but kind of breezesy coming from the west, northwest five to ten Miles Per Hour make it is feel lukes its four central park. Same thing in newark. One in monticello. You need to budget it up. Hat, scarves, you want that. But we have a mainly clear sky to bring us sunshine as we get the day going and more o