Pips. We are looking at the rest of asia doing this. 1 8kospi index down about of 1 . Some updatese, here on what happened yesterday. Military saying it is on high alert in that part of the world. Today,the top stories just a couple minutes ago, we did get confirmation out of the pboc, adding more funding to the system here. It is trying to guide the economy through a rough patch. A smaller chunk, 2. 95 . Jason. Us now is pleasure to have you. Good morning. Your top thoughts for today. What is top of mind for you . At chinas liquidity guess first the primary liquidity facility, but it does also add to the positive growth picture for china, especially on a relative basis. Covidast because the situation has been continuing in china. When you couple that with Strong Capital flows and improving current accounts balance, it doesnt mean the fundamentals are quite good at the moment. Note, and i guess on that many people say go long against the dollar. Your trade is the currency against the i
Sunday. Meanwhile we should note that this comes as joe biden is going to be attending a town hall on abc this evening. That is set to begin at 9 00 eastern. It comes as President Trump will also have a town hall at the 8 00 eastern our, and they will be on abc and nbc respectively. This is supposed to be the night of the debate, but that has been canceled. David dueling town meetings on two rival networks. Is there any reason to believe this information will interfere with that town hall meeting from joe biden tonight or with Kamala Harris being back on the campaign trail monday . Kevin no. They are saying theyre having rapid tests throughout several days, they test both of the candidates and staffers. President trump weighing in earlier today, saying he takes frequent tests but did not specify how many tests. David thank you so much to our chief washington correspondent. Every day bring some new development that may or may not affect the election. What are the markets telling us abou
Thankorgie about you for joining us. Worryingld we start about the amount of debt we are generating and the impact it will have on the economy longerterm . First, thank you for having me. The worries about debt levels going up are not for now. For now, the biggest worry is we do not do enough to support the economy until we have a durable exit from the health crisis. With Interest Rates being record and government can borrow inject hopefully not only a recovery, but a more potent, higher productivity based growth so they can repay the debt they are acquiring now. Case for lowhe Income Countries already in distress. Importanty it is so we make sure they are provided with relief and they are supported with grants and concessional financing, a big theme for our annual meeting spirit for our annual meetings. Francine what is the biggest risk to your outlook . You say the recovery will be uneven, but you have increased your projection . Kristalina the situation today is less dire than it wa
Rips into Silicon Valley and defends the companys government work and no symptoms, no test. Why the cdc is quietly updating its coronavirus testing guidelines normally, jim, i wouldnt start there, but you were just tweeting a moment ago about how important testing is as the number the sevenday average of new tests in this country is the lowest since early july. I just think that the main gap in the system is you hear people say, well, my daughter just got it from college and weve been all trying to test in the family, its five days, we dont know what to do. I think that that halting nature of what to do has gripped this country and has changed it from a country where you go places to a country where you stay at home its a country where you do not travel overseas, its a country where youre frightened over a five and sevenday period endlessly and we live with the tyranny of it. Testing would end it, but its got to be instant. Cant be a lab a lab is a big, big obstacle. Yeah. We will talk
And see where they stand creeping up. Over the seven handle at. 713. Well see what kind of core relation that may have with the equities market. Melissa, welcome to the club this morning it is great to be here and start the morning with you guys. I say that with a hint of sa sarkasm. Shes a regular you are ready to play. Always, you got to bring it each time. No i in team. Theres only a me upgrading laura overnight and learned it is rapidly intensifying and bracing for great winds. A category 4 with winds of 130 miles an hour. More than half a Million People have been ordered to evacuate from these areas 84 of off shore gulf production has been shut in compared to 90 in katrina not only is this having an impact on Oil Productions and industries from this storm that could impact tonight salesforce shares soaring after the Company Reported earnings of 1. 44. More than doubling revenue is above estimates core sales of the cloud road by 13 . The company got a big boost on investments. Guid