Something positive, right, with that rising case count hitting new records, it seems virtually every day, and deaths also starting to move up in knows hardhit states as well with hospitalizations thats certainly been a focus for Market Participants as you guys well know Scott Gottlieb who we follow closely tweeting about the remdesivir news, very encouraged but needs to be confirmed in a prospective trial, appears to be a receipt peck testify analysis of the face three data suggesting a survival benefit in severe Covid Patients. We have made the point many times it is only good news on remdesivir, but lets remember its an infused therapy in the hospital typically for people who are severely ill what we are hoping for and waiting for are significant antivirals that will have an affect on the virus far earlier in its course so that people will feel much more comfortable in resuming behavior because if they were to get it and these were to be available they could immediately take an oral
Hidden education emergency more on the millions of children will miss out on school because of the pandemic. Im joining with the sports. Played to play next seasons Champions League cup winning their appeal against a 2 year ban. While the political shift towards the right in Eastern Europe has got yet another boost with polands incumbent on to do the nominally winning the president ial runoff he secured just over 51 percent of the vote in a close race against the liberal wausau mayor ruffle toss coffee to this party already controls parliament and this result means it can press ahead with its conservative agenda alexey obrien reports. It was a vote seen as a. Basle for polands future and the results show a country divided but by a tiny margin andrzej duda will stay in office. Hes been there for 5 years propped up by the rightwing law and Justice Party yet for all the control they wield in poland due to filed to secure a comfortable when they are not a bad example i want to make it clea
Anything new its been at least eight months anything new going on with you . How is life, is it a little busier than before, any change whatsoever we need to know about . Less sleep, but, i mean busier. Not boozier busier i think all our lives have been boozier. But im so happy for you it must be great i told you that all along. It is the greatest thing i dont know if people know what were talking about, but how old are the babies seven months old. That is still hard. A boy and girl. Still hard. Wow still tough and you are in it deep. All right. But we digress yeah, they are upstairs crying you look like youre far away i am hoping that they will crawl into a shot at some point. But ive seen pictures and they are so cute. We could have some Photo Bombing going on later in the program. Maybe later lets show everybody u. S. Equity futures at this hour, we do have some red across the board. It looks like the dow futures would be off a little over 1 right now. Similar story well, nasdaq off
Jakarta just coming online. Interesting when it comes to the hang seng, we are close to those session highs for the hang seng. Cathay pacific certainly one to watch. Spike onned that brief this governmentbacked rescue plan. We come back to earth a little bit. Still seeing shares elevated a little bit. Chinese stocks slightly lower. We missed on the Inflation Numbers. Small caps in china close to 20 higher from those lows we saw. India futures also pointing positive. We are watching the dollar as well. Down for nine of the last 10 sessions. A little bit of exception with the yen, 107. 79. The hong kong dollar still on the stronger side but kyle bass doubling down on his bet against the peg. We will see what kind of demand there is. Offshore renminbi pretty much unchanged right now. Haslinda lets stay with china. Factory prices continue to fall in may. The country continues to deal with the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic. Lets cross to selina wang in beijing. Break down the Inflatio
As he calls them unchecked monopolies big plans for the big apple. Finally out with a reopening plan and why the novelty of working from home may be wearing off on all of you it is friday, may 29th, youre watching Worldwide Exchange here on cnbc good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, welcome from wherever in the world you may be watching. Thung for joining us right here on Worldwide Exchange. It looks like it may be a weak end to your week dow futures down about 73 points stocks having a good week so far. But right now, market nerves seem elevated a a bit waiting on the president s speech about china. Well get more on that in a moment despite yesterdays drop, the dow, nasdaq, s p, all the major indexes are on trial court for their succeed strakt month of gains. The nasdaq leading the charge among the broader index up 5. 5 . Now less than that small caps the real winners this week up nearly 8 as investors begin slowly to look past the lockdowns, this may be the story that may mo