Celebrated thanksgiving a month and a half ago, and since then, the nation of 37000000 has seen its daily coronavirus case count, nearly triple. According to the Public Health agency of canada, the number of infections has gone up from 2000 new cases a day in mid october to around 5500 a day, with few canadians flying to get their turkey dinner. Many are blaming the festive gatherings themselves and not travel for the surge. If the current trend continues Public Health officials in canada say that the country could see up 260000 new cases of covert 1000. 00 per day, by the end of december. In the states, a search like canadas would likely take the country over the edge. Currently, the u. S. Is seeing approximately 200000. 00 new infections a day. With the current trends, christmas will likely be very different this year in both the u. S. And canada. But there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Vaccines are being fast tracked to combat the virus. And one of the front runners from phar
A big drop from the same day in 2019 when 2900000 people were screened by the t. S. A. The reason many chose to stay put the states giving is obvious. Namely the coronavirus pandemic. U. S. Officials warned against travel over the holiday. This after seeing a dramatic jump in coburn 1000 cases north of the border in canada. Canadian celebrated thanksgiving, a month and a half ago. And since then, the nation of 37000000 has seen its daily coronavirus case count nearly triple. According to the Public Health agency of canada, the number of infections has gone up from 2000 new cases a day in mid october to around 5500. 00 a day with few canadians flying to get their turkey dinner. Many are blaming the festive gatherings themselves and not travel for the surge. If the current trend continues Public Health officials in canada say that the country could see up 260000 new cases of covert 1000. 00 per day, by the end of december. In the states, a search like canadas would likely take the countr
Also, counterterrorism analyst washington Thomas Anderson talks about the evolving threats facing the u. S. Since the september 11 terrorist attacks. Washington journal is next. Host it is the washington journal for september 11. Todays show will focus on the 19th anniversary of the 9 11 attacks. You can see planned events at the pentagon which you are watching at ground zero in new york. On cspan, cspan2 and cspan3. You can check the website for specific channel and time information. Follow along on the radio app. We will take your calls on this remembrance day. Here is how you can call us. The eastern00 for and central time zones. 202 7488001 for the mountain and pacific times. If you want to text us, do so at 202 7488003. Post on our cspan feed. On this day, several papers across the United States devoted. Heir editorial page here is the tribute out of johnstown, pennsylvania. On the 19th anniversary, our nation is distracted by politics. We are obligated to pause on this september
Options. The 30 year seemed to not go as well as planned. Your getting a huge lift up in yields. The last week, we are up 15 basis points. You are starting to see a repricing underway. Romaine we did have another ipo today. We had qe holdings which is a Chinese Company that did debut, up 87 on the day. There is risk appetite, people are picking and choosing bets as anthony was alluding to. Lets bring him back into the conversation. Global strategist at a mayor price. Se. N you look ameripri when you look at the bond market and the positioning of yields here in the idea that a lot of the runup we have seen to risk assets is at least in part due to the record low yields, do you worry if we see a Material Movement up in yields, the selloff in the treasuries continuing, that would have any tangible effect on equities . Anthony it could. Not something that keeps me up at night. The main drivers are trends in the economy, in the environ in the virus, and if we will get a vaccine by the end o
States across the country. Saying goodart by morning to you. The trendlines have not been good. There are two indicators for whats happening with employment. The Census Bureau is putting out per luminary data that indicate that the percentage of americans who are employed is declining again. And the Labor Department puts out data about initial weekly unemployment claims. Filing foreople their Unemployment Benefits for the first time. And those numbers have been pretty stagnant since the beginning of june and recently have begun to take up a little bit. Which is an indication that there are more people losing their jobs in the economy. Those indicators suggest that while we may see some jobs growth, its going to be a low number at best and thats going to suggest that this recovery is going to take a good long time. In this discussion and our anticipation of the jobs number on friday . That 600 benefit from the federal government. Looking beyond the next few weeks, how long do you think