Although probeijing officials have said we should not be too concerned, it will lead to stability in the city. 7 . Sci asia pacific down it is certainly something of a riskoff mood, following off what we saw toward the end of play on friday in the u. S. The nikkei is down more than 1 . In the mainland, you have a bit of pressure as well a despite industrial profits up 6 coming in over the weekend for the month of may. On to the next board. We will be looking at the currencies. A bit of dollar weakness. On friday it reached its highest level in four weeks, but it has since come off slightly, leading to a bit of strength for the offshore currency here in china. The korean won is up about plan to 01 . On to some of the commodities we are looking at. Wti has been under pressure as the demand story as we focus on the rate of infections, 10 million infections, 500,000 deaths, you can see that it is lower today. Gold, science that investors are preparing to cross through 1800. 0. 64 . Year yi
And indeed i have a message to many close allies around the world to your people could be next. Also coming up tonight a warning from the un that millions of children are driskell of being put to work many families are turning to dangerous child labor to put food on the table during the Global Health emergency. My father was killed my mother is very ill. I go out to get money so we can buy medicine for my mother so we can treat her and so that we can buy food for us selves. U. S. President donald trump all for us sanctions against staff of the International Criminal court who are investigating u. S. Service personnel over possible war crimes in afghanistan the United States is not a signatory to the courts charter at and wrote select in retaliation for the inquiry the white house says it will block the assets. Of Court Employees involved impose visa restrictions on them and beth families and to corruption investigation into the court itself is also said to be in the works u. S. Secreta
This webinar will have a straightforward format after my introduction he will offer 10 minutes or so of remarks, then i will have questions for the senator and we will have a discussion about the economic challenges facing our nation and what congress should do to address them. We will take a couple of questions at the end. Thank you for joining us. If you have a question for senator rubio, submit it by email. Econtalk on aei twitter. Those are listed on the events web page. I am honored to be joined by senator rubio, thank you for being here. Senator marco rubio is the senator from florida, served in local state government, including as speaker of the Florida House before being elected to the senate in 2010 and reelected in 2016. He serves on the Senate Committee of appropriations, the Foreign Relations committee, the special committee on aging as acting chair of the select committee on intelligence, and most important to our discussion is chairman of the Senate Committee on Small Bus
World many of us were concerned about whether we would become infected some said its as bad as the flu others predicted worse then news about Health Systems being overwhelmed and bodies piling up started to emerge that gave us a bleak picture but its not the picture everywhere mortality rates in cattle in singapore are below 0 point one percent among the worlds lowest the gulf nations mortality rate is 0. 07 percent 12 deaths out of more than 16000. 00 cases in singapore its 0. 093 percent of more than 1009000 infections experts say testing the availability of hospital beds and population age 3 critical factors yet singapores outbreak is the biggest in Southeast Asia and cassava as the 2nd highest number of cases in the arab world although the curve is beginning to flatten out. Number of cases has gone up but thats only natural and i believe that actually its a result of our very strong testing measures so as youve seen we are testing a lot and cut out so weve been testing approximatel
1100 tests. If you combine that with the 1500 tests the first day, we have about 2600 people we have pulled samples from and should be seeing those results trickle in in the next 2448 hours. I want to thank our department of Health Employees as well as the National Guard and the cdc. They have all been fantastic. I want to remind everybody that given this testing we are seeing, we suspect this will drive our case numbers up. As we do more and more testing in a community where there is already community spread, we do expect to see a big increase in positive cases. Lets remember to keep our focus on hospitalization rates. I need people to be smart, continue practicing social distancing, washing your hands, and remembering that we are in a marathon. This is not a sprint. We have a long ways to go. I want to thank the language specialists who have been down there. They were there all day and are invaluable. Last night, i hosted a phone call with all of our legislators and talked to them ab