Because of health issues. Former ldp secretarygeneral Ishiba Shigeru, chief cabinet secretary Suga Yoshihide, and ldp policy chief kisishida fumi are vying for the leadership. But Campaign Activities are being confined to major cities becacause of the coronavirus. Translator i will once again devote myself to regional revitalization. I want to achieve a great reset to rewrite japapans bluepririn. Ototherwise, our country wont able to survive the next era. Translator i vow to keep on pushing forward the policies of Prime Minister abe. The top priority is coronavirus countermeasures. At all costs, i will stop an explosive spread like wewe saw the u. S. And europe and protect the lives and health of the people. Translator i will listen carefully and turn the voices of the masses into political energy. Disparity and division have been growing in japan and around the world. I will tackle this modern issue and foster cooperation. 535 votes will decide the winner next monday. 394 of those wil
Then nikolas partnership with gm. Why both stocks are set to surge despite of course the broader selloff. And finally, this tesla snub. The s ps decision to leave tesla out of its benchmark having a huge impact on the stock. Not the only reason, of course well explain why later on this hour jim, thank goodness youre back, man. It was good to get your take from home at least on friday amid this madness. Well, ill tell you, what i saw last week and i see today is this parabolic move. Look, fridays close, i thought it was what we would call phony. I mean the big rally please i didnt think there was anything to it other than Short Covering i think well revisit the lows that we saw friday and then we have to rethink, because the selling, frankly, is too hard this morning that doesnt mean that i dont think ultimately the people who dont know what they own shouldnt sell, im saying this is just trying to find price discovery, where we were friday, and then we able to figure out what to do davi
All report Record Numbers of daily deaths. We are getting set for samsung results. We will find out how the pandemic has hit south korea smartphone makers later in the show. A look at how we are shaping up this thursday session. We will start with u. S. Futures. All eyes really looking at the fed, looking at jay powell. He said this is particularly the biggest economic shock in memory for the u. S. Prospects for further monetary stimulus, just incremental progress when it comes to negotiations, more fiscal stimulus, i should say. Chicago nikkei futures looking unchanged. It is a massive earnings day in japan, expecting results from hitachi, panasonic, as well as waiting on japanese retail sales. Retail sales coming out of hong kong later on. That is expected to be another grim picture. The yen, wonderful 97 is where we are. Steady below that one of five handle, the dollar coming under pressure from that super dovish fed and the dovish comment from fed chair powell. 41. 37, getting that
Gatherings still arent allowed and schools and universities remain closed people have also been asked to continue social distancing florence really has moved from kuala lumpur. A lot of businesses shops and offices are now allowed to open but they have to implement certain Safety Measures including temperature screening and making sure that theres nothing spaces within the premises for people to maintain physical distance now people are also now allowed to exercise out of their homes something they havent been able to do in the last 6 weeks this allowed to play sports now outside as long as it doesnt involve contact and as long as it doesnt involve big groups of people weve already seen a couple of joggers out on the streets on monday morning now u. S. Health experts believe it will take at least a year before a vaccine is created and distributed but president dont trump says hes confident the u. S. Will have one by the end of this year hes made the prediction as a virtual town hall me
Use and no place for such weapons in canada the World Health Organization says it doesnt believe the coronavirus was manmade the agencys emergencies chief michael ryan said scientists are assured the disease occurred naturally he was responding to a question about u. S. President trumps claims he had seen evidence it came from a lab. We listened again and again and numerous scientists who looked at the sequences looked at this white house and we were assured this was is natural in origin and what is important is that we establish what that natural host for this virus is. And that and the primary purpose of doing that is to ensure that we understand the virus more we understand the animal human. Interface and we understand how the end of the human species barrier was breached and the purpose of understanding that is that we can put in place the necessary prevention and Public Health measures to prevent that happening again anywhere south korea and india have stopped using chinese made r